Pentathlon WCH Zhengzhou 2024

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Women’s Semi-final A

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00:00:00Yes, welcome and Nihao to Zhengzhou in the east of China for this showpiece event at

00:00:25this breathtaking stadium and in that stadium we will crown the world champions of modern

00:00:30pentathlon 2024. This is the last stop of this unique sports journey on the road to

00:00:37the Paris Olympics. My name is Ian Stringer, I'm your commentator for the next four days.

00:00:42I'm blessed to have Patrick Dogg alongside me. The temperature 39 degrees. It's hot.

00:00:49It's been hot for the last few days. It's humid. The temperature may well register 39.

00:00:55It feels like it's a lot hotter I've got to say. Let's take you through the format

00:00:59then shall we? For the first of our semi-finals it's our female athletes, the top nine qualify.

00:01:04The event is placed over a 90 minute duration. Riding comes into place in the final incidentally.

00:01:12There is no riding in the semi-final so the riding will come into place in the final.

00:01:17Remember top nine qualify from today. We start with the semi-finals of the fencing bonus

00:01:22round. That's the one-on-one bounce. Remember it's a winner stays on kind of format. Trip

00:01:26to the pool here in Zhengzhou. It's a 25 meter pool. 2.30 is the time for our athletes and

00:01:33we conclude with the final placing decided with the thrilling laser run. Five laps of

00:01:39our 600 meter circuit. Four trips to the laser shooting rounds. They don't go in in the first

00:01:46lap. The athletes have got to shoot five targets from 10 meters. They then move on

00:01:51to the rest of the course. As you can see the course winds its way around the Olympic

00:01:55Stadium here in Zhengzhou. The first nine over the finish line confirm their places

00:02:00in the final. It's a new format. It's the Olympic format and the question is who is

00:02:03going to make it to the Super Saturday final? They are the Olympic rankings as of now for

00:02:12our female athletes. Patrick alongside me. Two-time world bronze. Budapest 2019. World

00:02:21Cup in 2021 in Budapest. Two-time Olympian alongside me. Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

00:02:26I'm very happy to be here. We're delighted to have you here. Our viewers can see the

00:02:30Olympic ranking rounds after the World Cup final in Ankara which was again another wonderful

00:02:35event but this Patrick ultimately is it. I know that as an athlete you as we see some

00:02:42of the pictures from the fencing qualifying that took place before today. So the ranking

00:02:52round that you can see. See Elodie Cluvel in your picture there and our female athletes.

00:02:57This ultimately decides the start of the bonus round but also the riding for when the riding

00:03:04takes place in the in the final. So the the athletes who came out on top. Song Min Song

00:03:11with 23 victories in the ranking round. Kate French, Abdul Maksoud. You can see all the

00:03:16way down the listings there. We have 18 of our athletes in semi-final A, 18 in semi-final

00:03:22B. Semi-final A will take place this afternoon but that is the ranking round done. That's

00:03:29the stage for the bonus round. Patrick you're here of course in the in the male category

00:03:37and unfortunately aren't going to play any more of a part but we know you only did it

00:03:42so you could come and join us up here. What's it like competing out here in Zhengzhou? It's

00:03:46amazing. It looks like Olympic Games. It's nearly the same stadium like in Tokyo. It

00:03:53feels great like we have great facilities here. Everything is well organized and it

00:03:59was a good experience. And as our athletes make their way to the stage you can see the

00:04:04first two in the bonus round of the fencing. How's the facilities as well as our athletes

00:04:13get ready for their first 30 second bout? How's the facilities out there? How's it looks

00:04:19to the outside as though it's perfect? Yeah it's amazing. I mean I think it's the best

00:04:23facilities we've ever had for pentathlon competition except maybe the Olympic Games in Rio and

00:04:29in Tokyo where I competed since I do pentathlon and it's pretty pretty long since 20 years

00:04:34I've been in pentathlon. So first up remember this is a one-on-one bout and you score two

00:04:42points as you go through the rest of the field. You can see on your screen Wally and

00:04:50Batashova against each other. The clock will wear down and the victory goes to Batashova.

00:04:59Wally beaten on this particular occasion. If you're on that one I know it's fast and

00:05:04it's quick and it's one one touch Patrick. You can see how Batashova set Wally under

00:05:09pressure and she were pushing her to the end of the piste and then she beautifully

00:05:13touched her in her counter-attack so it was a nice touch. So Batashova with one victory

00:05:21in that particular bout and again if you're new to the sport or you're still integrated

00:05:25into the sport it's kind of a winner stays on kind of format and two points available

00:05:29per athlete as you accumulate them two becomes four becomes six becomes eight and as an athlete

00:05:35when do you start getting excited is it is it when it's six when it's eight in terms

00:05:38of the points or or does it need to be more than that where it's significant. Yeah I mean

00:05:43I always count in swimming seconds like every touch is one swimming second and makes my

00:05:48time on the pool faster so I mean if like two touches three touches then you're getting

00:05:53excited and you are warmed up and you try to push and continue so yeah two touches are

00:05:58is always a good thing. That the voice of Patrick Dogg our expert summarizer this afternoon

00:06:03it's local time 10 to 3 incidentally here in Zhengzhou. So bout number two 30 seconds

00:06:08on the clock. Batashova with one victory. Zhang of Korea with the time advantage as

00:06:17well and the victory oh was that a double touch so they'll go again with 21 seconds

00:06:26on the clock and the victory. You can see Zhang. Batashova had the same strategy she

00:06:37was pushing Zhang till the end of the piece but Zhang she did a beautiful touch in the

00:06:42contra tempo when Batashova moved forward. Yeah so Zhang with the win on that occasion

00:06:49the athlete from South Korea meaning one victory for her and two points and remember the bonus

00:06:57round here in terms of the fencing will take the athletes into the pool and then following

00:07:03the pool will be the all-important laser run that we will bring you all the action

00:07:07of here. And Zhang will try and take that victory the first victory.

00:07:27Domeniak from Poland on the back foot somewhat but Zhang not exactly wanted to come forward

00:07:37herself she seems happiest on the back foot and the counter-attack as the clock runs down

00:07:41halfway 15. The time advantage with Domeniak and the victory goes to Zhang. Seemed on the

00:07:50back foot quite a lot there Patrick but eventually as time ticked down knew she needed to get

00:07:54on the front foot. Yeah I mean in this format the one who comes on the piece has priority

00:08:00the athlete who comes on the piece so that's why Zhang made some pressure she had to make

00:08:03a touch and then she pushed her to the end and yeah at the end she did a nice flash and

00:08:09touched her on the chest. So that's two victories for the Korean. Zhang lovely aerial shot of

00:08:28the piece that you can see under a bit of protection just for the odd downpour here

00:08:33in Jingzhou has been known was yesterday. And Zhang Malaszewska is the next bout. Malaszewska

00:08:44the Polish athlete again a little back foot here has the time advantage as we get down

00:08:49to 15 seconds if it were to go the course. We enter the last 10 Zhang in the last bout

00:08:55got on the front foot and does the same but does not secure the win and Patrick Malaszewska

00:09:02doing well there. Did I know her? Did well just to kind of fend her off keep her at bay

00:09:08and take the advantage. Yeah she took the advantage she did a beautiful stop when the

00:09:14Korean athlete flashed her was the right strategy in this moment and was a nice touch. Must

00:09:21be hot in those uniforms. Yeah it's incredible now there's no air coming through this material

00:09:28there shouldn't come nothing through this material obviously. For obvious reasons yeah we don't want that.

00:09:34Yep so the athletes meet in the middle of the piece. Potapenko the next athlete up.

00:09:46And Potapenko Kazak will take on Malaszewska from Poland with one victory. Potapenko light

00:10:00on her feet that's for sure foot movements very quick but a sword action from doubling

00:10:07her points the Polish athlete takes two wins. It's a nice nice flash with a fin on the down

00:10:12sector and then she touched her on the upper sector beautiful made by Anna Malaszewska. So the feint you

00:10:18see the feint when she came in first. Yeah she came in first down and then she touched her on the top

00:10:22it was good but you can see here perfect. So that's more victories for Malaszewska

00:10:33and again the athletes that you'll see first up in the bonus round here are those who didn't

00:10:39fare the best in the ranking round so it's they who are desperate to to pick up

00:10:46more points as best they can. Uchida from Japan.

00:10:55Next up Misaki Uchida.

00:11:01Malaszewska coming forward a little here with a little more purpose the Japanese athlete again

00:11:08just trying to feel her way into the bout with 10 seconds of it gone.

00:11:14Malaszewska with another victory Patrick. Yeah Malaszewska set the Uchida under pressure

00:11:20because Uchida had the priority and she had to do a move and then Uchida tried to

00:11:24counterattack her Malaszewska with a nice stop hit step back she touched her on the shoulder.

00:11:32Having never fenced myself, I know you're all protected and you're ready and there's

00:11:37protection there but somebody still comes at you with a sword right? So I know you get used to it

00:11:41because you're an athlete and that's fine but you know ultimately it's a combat sport

00:11:46someone's still coming at you with a... do you get used to that? Do you ever get used to that?

00:11:49I mean it's normal for you you don't feel any pain nothing it's just uh if you may be new to

00:11:55the fencing you feel every touch but we are used to it it's not a problem it's not a problem.

00:11:59Zhang from China next up again the um the history of this sport is born out of warriors and

00:12:08shooting, sword fighting, swimming and maybe running away from the enemy when they've been

00:12:13dealt with. The call of valet and Malaszewska has three victories now Zhang of China in her home

00:12:22nation.

00:12:30This one certainly seems in the balance and the victory goes to Zhang who thrust forward with

00:12:37purpose there Patrick to take her first win. Yeah it was uh I don't know if I saw correctly

00:12:41it was also a fend on the lower sector and then she just did a flash was good I mean she's having

00:12:47a french grip it gives her a little bit advantage of length in her arm so she can do the flash and

00:12:55have a like a better timing than Anna Malaszewska. What's the disadvantage of a french grip? You

00:13:00don't have that much power like if you take a parade if you had like try to do something with

00:13:04a blade you don't have the power to hold it you hold your epee it's better with this called it's

00:13:09called pistol grip and that's a disadvantage but I mean at the end of the day you have to touch your

00:13:16opponent and uh this reach is good. Edez the Belgian and Ace Edez onto the piste

00:13:28and they'll be thankful that uh either end of this stadium at the moment there is a little

00:13:31breeze we are thankful for I'm sure they will be down there and away they go can Zhang make it two

00:13:42Edez

00:13:43with her first bout looks tentative dare I say

00:13:55Zhang with the second effective Patrick yes you did a fend up a sector uh Anais she took

00:14:03the parade and she just uh disengaged and touched her on the chest with the flash was beautiful

00:14:09no chance for Anais sadly yeah because I know her very well for a long time okay we're friends

00:14:15I really hope she's doing good here qualifying for the olympics yeah okay because of course the

00:14:20qualification here they've got to get through to the final today and then as uh that's difficult

00:14:26in itself because we've got to remember this is a cream of the crop the best in the world the best

00:14:29athletes in the world Amelie Arceo who we saw in the laser run actually taking part she took part

00:14:37in the laser run championships she's here with her fencing bonus round first bout

00:14:48Arceo of Mexico Zhang with two wins now in this particular event

00:14:58Arceo with quick hands but a slip

00:15:01that will be a concern for the athlete wonderful sporting behavior from Zhang to pick her up

00:15:09that looked like an ankle to me Patrick it doesn't look good I hope she I hope it's just a shock

00:15:14nothing serious she is struggling and as an athlete I can tell you exactly what's going

00:15:22through her head it's not here and now it's the next two hours and it's the next two months

00:15:30is she allowed to have treatment at this stage I take it she's not there mid bout

00:15:34I don't know how the rules are normally you can have a short break she'll take the

00:15:40medical break she'll take the defeat and just try and get some treatment I'd imagine

00:15:44winning here would not be advantage in fact she wins I'll say who gets the touch but how's the ankle

00:15:52that was brave beyond brave as you say

00:15:54it's not looking good he's kind of shaking her leg maybe we should take a break for medical

00:16:01yeah well that's the victory that's the winning touch

00:16:06and so well done to Maria, Maria is just working the ankle and the good news for the athletes here

00:16:16is that they have medical attention as Langria of Germany enters

00:16:19the piece, Patrick's compatriot yes crossed fingers indeed indeed I'm sure

00:16:28as an athlete coming in when you've got somebody injured off of opposite you

00:16:31it's difficult because you've still got to give it everything right yeah for sure there's

00:16:34no mercy and that's the way it is and Maria will be the same yeah for sure the other way

00:16:39around so let's see how this goes here is Arceo and Langria, Arceo working really hard

00:16:45Arceo and Langria, Arceo working really well on that foot in fairness to her deserves tremendous credit

00:16:54and Arceo of Mexico has one victory already in

00:16:57tentative Langria not as aggressive as I expected her to be she might have seen the injury but she

00:17:02gets the touch she gets the win and Arceo doesn't look overly bothered by it and I've got to say

00:17:09Patrick she's walking off relatively relatively well yeah I think maybe it was just a shock yeah

00:17:15first couple seconds and she will be fine for the later on in swimming yeah we will see she has a

00:17:20smile on her face she's walking freely you'll be pleased to hear Maria Arceo but she will get

00:17:25treatment I'm sure if needed all the medical staff here are here to support the athletes and

00:17:33she is out of the bonus round of the fencing and on we move the German

00:17:37Langria wins and takes victory Guzzi Blanca Guzzi next in

00:17:45of the uh the flag on her left arm like a captain's armband isn't it yeah Guzzi of Hungary

00:17:54then with the time advantage if it comes to that but Langria with one win that subtle front foot

00:18:00movement from the German as well don't know what she's gonna do disguising a few moves in there as

00:18:07well and takes the second and that was patience there Patrick yeah was a good touch by Langria

00:18:13was a six on the shoulder of Blanca Guzzi so that's a couple of wins for

00:18:23the German athletes very quick hands you can see there

00:18:27very quick saw an advantage saw an opening I thought yep I'll have that thank you

00:18:33very good very very good

00:18:35so

00:18:44Serapignetti next in

00:18:50and is that two now for Langria I think that's two

00:18:57Serapignetti in for Lithuania and uh Langria you can see growing in confidence in this bonus

00:19:05round with two victories already that noise Patrick is unique and the oh it's a double

00:19:15touch so they will reset that noise is just unique in sport isn't it yeah sound of the blades yeah

00:19:22wonderful the judges watching on as we're down to seven seconds Serapignetti will have the time

00:19:29advantage so with four to go Langria needs to do something and suffers because she had to get on

00:19:34the front foot with two seconds to go and the Lithuanian athlete with a touch in the victory

00:19:38Patrick yeah sadly time was running out and she had to do her move and there was no good situation

00:19:44for her in this case and yeah Serapignetti did her job yeah and Serapignetti knew that the time was

00:19:52running down I wonder when you're in there Patrick and you have the time advantage what stage of the

00:19:5630 seconds do you think I'm going to back off and play the time out I would say like five seconds

00:20:01five seconds depends on where you are on the piste if you press the opponent at the end of

00:20:05the piste and it's five second you slowly move back right in this case and that's what Serapignetti

00:20:10did she knew it's just five seconds and she slowly moved back and then the Rebecca had to come

00:20:16gives you an advantage yeah it did and the Lithuanian Serapignetti took full advantage of that

00:20:22so Prokopenko and Serapignetti Serapignetti with one win Prokopenko

00:20:36kind of little jigging leg style tiny little movements and gets the touch aggressive in

00:20:44its nature there Prokopenko but victory Patrick should be pleased with that aggressive yeah she's

00:20:51like uh one of the oldest athletes of the field she's experienced and

00:20:55she know what she want to do and she does it with everything she can give you know yeah Prokopenko with

00:21:05the uh with the victory so that's Serapignetti kind of missed the parade

00:21:11so Guliash of Hungary next in

00:21:27the pool awaits our athletes this semi-final A a reminder semi-final B will follow

00:21:32the final on super saturday for the women and the men's event a little bit of wardrobe

00:21:39assistance required but this is for safety measures as well so no it's not aesthetic it's uh

00:21:46although this kit is very much needed to keep our athletes safe

00:21:51Guliash in then for Hungary Prokopenko with one victory here

00:21:57wonderful balance from the Hungarian I have to say

00:22:02she's been pushed back in the piece as well Guliash 15 to go

00:22:0515 to go Prokopenko will know that that clock is wearing down so we're down to seven seconds

00:22:14Guliash here just fending and Prokopenko that was two seconds to go Guliash opted with two seconds

00:22:23to go to get on the front foot there I don't understand why she did that but sometimes you're

00:22:27not in the athlete's head maybe she had an idea but look like like kind of unnecessary to go there

00:22:33for that touch because she still had one or one and a half meters to go back in two seconds

00:22:39yeah she opted to try and take the touch but

00:22:45the experience won the day eventually beautiful parade repulse by Prokopenko

00:22:53so Prokopenko remaining in and uh the story of this weekend is plentiful there are so many

00:23:01different stories around but you don't have to look too much further than Egypt to get a story

00:23:06in modern pentathlon so successful as a nation women's and men's

00:23:17Prokopenko then in against Abdul Maksoud Abdul Maksoud

00:23:26of Egypt Prokopenko with a couple of wins here and again wanting to get on the front foot slightly

00:23:32Egyptian athlete just trying to like a boxer saucer out behind a jab and which way is she

00:23:36going to go how to play this one out and it's a double touch so clock reset nine seconds

00:23:43Abdul Maksoud has the time advantage if it goes all the way and will take the win and the points

00:23:49but another double touch Prokopenko knows the time's down to seven seconds

00:23:56it's a five and Abdul Maksoud takes that one and actually a nod of appreciation from Prokopenko

00:24:01there as well Patrick that was a beautiful touch from Abdul Maksoud on the

00:24:06wrist of Prokopenko I know the time was running out Prokopenko had to come and yeah

00:24:14it was nice yeah it was um counterattacking really as well wasn't it on the back foot

00:24:25then forward brilliantly and took the green light

00:24:31so British athletic representation Cape French in onto the beast

00:24:40and Cape French

00:24:45again stories everywhere but the Brits with good representation here over the course of the

00:24:50weekend Abdul Maksoud with one win

00:25:02French did very well in the uh in the ranking having a look down particularly well Abdul Maksoud

00:25:11with the one win and down to 10 seconds and Cape French takes it on the back foot Patrick but

00:25:21that was a nice touch by Cape French it's good to have her back after the Olympics in 2021 she

00:25:27took time off and she didn't really compete and since this season she's back and it's good to

00:25:34have her in the top of the field because you're closely knit communities athletes as well right

00:25:40yes I know her because we are the same age and we know her since we were very young teenagers

00:25:45last year yeah for sure last year plus 15 well with that in mind actually wasn't it wonderful

00:25:53to see the you know the younger age groups as well in the last few days competing you must

00:25:57have enjoyed that you know with the laser run had so many young athletes from I think we had five

00:26:01and six year olds here this weekend yeah that's crazy just competing getting involved in the sport

00:26:07choosing you know laser run and ultimately maybe modern pentathlon long term French then with one

00:26:12victory French and song song who is was the top of this particular semi-final so four points for

00:26:23song if she were to take this one but French looking to get for herself with two wins and

00:26:28song wins it nice contradict by the Korean athlete it's good to win if you win the bonus

00:26:36round you get not two points you get four points yes at the end so it's all because you want to

00:26:40get one bout yeah you only have one bout that's the difference and uh it was good counter-attack

00:26:50yep so we'll um as you can see on the replay he's a Korean again aggressive in nature and quick

00:26:56as well agile athlete

00:27:01left-handed handshake because the weapon is usually in our athletes right hand usually

00:27:07difficult facing a left-hander yeah it's difficult because everything is mirrored

00:27:11makes gives you a lot of problems and you're used to it we don't have that much left-handed

00:27:15uh athletes in fencing so um yeah most of them are right-handed so you're not used to it there

00:27:21are the fencing results for you then there are the points for the athletes coming out to the fencing

00:27:25results that's the um the fencing for you that's coming from the uh the ranking round the

00:27:32the bonus round as well listing all of your athletes a reminder and it'll be a lot more

00:27:36prevalent as we get into the laser run but the top nine qualify let's take a look back

00:27:44at some of the highlights from the first fencing bonus round of the week

00:28:31so fencing fencing bonus round complete for our athletes and now it's the quick change as you can

00:28:46see from that shot there that's the fencing bonus round area and this graphic is geographically

00:28:53very accurate in that the pool is uh is right next door to be honest Patrick could probably

00:28:58throw his swimming kit from the pool to the fencing bonus round it's that close it's

00:29:03very very close indeed our athletes 200 meters freestyle two and a half minutes

00:29:07is the time and you've been in the pool obviously and what's it like as a pool because it's a we

00:29:13should tell our audience it's a temporary pool yeah but it's okay it's not too hot i mean it's

00:29:17a refreshing heat like a refreshing temperature in the pool uh it's good everything they have nice

00:29:24lanes uh could be a little bit deeper maybe because i'm nearly two meters it's uh maybe not

00:29:29deep enough for me but for most of the athletes especially the girls it's it's okay it's pretty

00:29:35nice haven't been in such a because it's a portable pool haven't been in such a nice portable pool

00:29:41and there it is you can see the starting blocks i'm reliably informed are very good as well

00:29:45very important for our athletes to push off on their starting blocks you can see

00:29:50the pool is in the sunshine at this stage and on the weather patrick and i'll have a

00:29:54a brief set the scene with the weather because it looks lovely doesn't it on the tv screens it

00:29:58looks nice and bright and sunny and great but our thermometer at the start of the day i think said 39

00:30:05on my app it said it feels like 42 and if you walk there without shoes it's nearly impossible

00:30:10because everything is so heated up you need sun cream for sure even i do and i'm half african

00:30:19so i'm saying a guy though it's uh it's crazy all the all the egyptians everyone has struggled

00:30:24with the heat and the sun it's really burning on your skin yep so that's going to have an impact

00:30:28for our swimmers as well as our athletes prepare to and indeed enter the uh the swimming pool but

00:30:38they are the lanes it looks beautiful like a mill pond at the moment you just want to

00:30:42jump into it and break the water be the first into it to break that water maybe maybe that's

00:30:47just me but our athletes will get the big arrival walk on as well which uh modern pentathlon is

00:30:56doing a wonderful job on six minutes until we go so we'll uh make sure that we bring you the action

00:31:01as and when here on uipm cv around my name is ian stringer i'm your commentator throughout the

00:31:06weekend here patrick dog german athlete alongside me hasn't qualified for his semi-final disappointed

00:31:14patrick and imagine yes yeah it was a i mean one of the last competition was riding for me

00:31:21i mean i will continue with obstacle and next season but uh yeah i wish i could perform better

00:31:27but i had not my fencing was no good and i had a really struggle with the shooting here

00:31:32obviously the heat and then 30 minutes before the laser run there was a heavy rain yesterday

00:31:38and uh like changed everything from the condition became very humid and i couldn't really deal with

00:31:45it so yeah sadly i'm out so the conditions had a big impact i mean i know you're not an excuses

00:31:50athlete no no i know that it's about me you've owned it and said i didn't qualify yeah but the

00:31:54conditions are really significant yes yes and i think everyone has to everyone has to deal with

00:32:00it and some do it better some not and i didn't but uh like uh yeah the conditions it's brutal i mean

00:32:06everyone who will survive this competition is a world champion in my eyes because crossing the

00:32:11finish line in this heat with this humidity and everything it's horrible yeah well swimming is

00:32:17next up for our athletes we will have three heats of six and uh patrick and i have just been handed

00:32:23the start list and we have the uh the best performances of the athletes in the last 12 months

00:32:29and there is a standout performer to say the least in heat one we'll go through the heats with you

00:32:33a little nearer the time um but the japanese athlete uchida with 207 80 in the last 12 months

00:32:42is certainly the athlete to look out for um but going into the swimming patrick again i'm fascinated

00:32:47from an athlete's point of view mon pentathlon is unique we know it's unique for a million different

00:32:52reasons but for me the some of the unique aspects aren't even replicated by any other sports saving

00:32:59your legs for a laser run in a pool and the balance between the swimming time and your quads

00:33:04and your glutes and using and burning and getting lactic in there that you don't want to live

00:33:09you know rent free for 30 minutes before the laser run how do you how do you do that calculation how

00:33:15do you do it per per lap per as you're you're nearing 100 150 meters you you you step off and

00:33:22you save or do you just have to hope that your training comes back at you no it depends on which

00:33:26heat you are like my normal like strategy is if i'm in heat one i can nearly go all out because

00:33:32i have like 10 minutes plus the 15 minutes after the last heat till the start of the laser run so

00:33:38it's 25 minutes it's okay to recover if you are in heat two and heat three you like not go all out

00:33:46maybe 95 to 90 to save some energy especially in your when your arms are sore you have the

00:33:52lactate you have to shoot later and you have to be precise and if you have like a heavy arm it's

00:33:57nearly impossible so that's why most of the athletes if they're in the last heat or in the

00:34:01second last they just go 90 95 so there is a significant advantage for being in a heat one

00:34:08yeah for sure but you fence not that well before so you have also a handicap coming and you it's

00:34:14not it's better to be in the last heat and fence well than like have a try to be in the first heat

00:34:20at the end of the day yeah understood so our judges and officials are being welcomed onto the

00:34:26pool arena and we will as we course throughout the weekend pay credit to them they do a wonderful job

00:34:35our officials again it's testing conditions for them for the officials here and they are screening

00:34:43themselves from the sun you can see some of the judges head to toe as much as they possibly can

00:34:49in order to protect themselves from the elements patrick turned up in a hat very similar to the one

00:34:54that you see being sported i already bought it here because the sun was crazy and the second day

00:34:59i went to the mall bought this hat yeah preparation yeah very very important very key so there we have

00:35:05it then this is the uh semi-final a heat one for the women's semi-final uchida of japan and you can

00:35:13see the rest of the list uh petrpenko jang dominic vali and bashova our six athletes

00:35:22in the pool a reminder it's a 200 meter the disciplined pool is a 25 meter pool here

00:35:30but again it's uh the work that goes on to put events in on here you know setting the pool up

00:35:39is uh is very very impressive you can see our athletes will not want to be in the sun for any

00:35:43longer than they will need to be uchida of japan

00:35:51he's being welcomed by james zanadakis james normally in this uh in this seat he's here don't

00:35:55you worry for those of you who are familiar with james's voice he's here you can you can hear him

00:36:02welcoming the athletes here he is our master of ceremonies here is our mc

00:36:09bringing the athletes on potapenko can even in just that we've got a tracksuit top it's just

00:36:15going to be it's going to be hot out there they'll want to get in the pool get their tracksuit top off

00:36:21first thing you do after the presentation you open a zipper of the tracksuit and we can see

00:36:25actually the korean national athlete jang has got a towel around her neck that towel will probably

00:36:30have been frozen if not it might have ice in it and the idea there is to try and get as close to

00:36:35the main arteries in your neck and keep your blood flow cold right that's the idea dominiac

00:36:44poland a tall athlete perfect for swimming long levers jessica varley already has the

00:36:54swimming jackets on its way that'll be off nice and quickly

00:36:59farley again as patrick quite rightly says footwear make sure you've got effective footwear

00:37:05you don't want to burn your feet but show that individual neutral athlete

00:37:09in white makes her way to her starting blocks

00:37:16and we'll be ready for heat one here in the pool a reminder of the

00:37:20laser run which will follow the swimming it's the top nine that go through so we'll

00:37:25remind you a little nearer the time and yes first over the line we will make sure that we show you

00:37:29you know the first athletes over the line but ultimately ninth place is the most important

00:37:35place today to qualify for the final and i'll have a bit of a chat with patrick as we near

00:37:41the laser run but are fascinated to know when you ease off when you know ninth is safe

00:37:48first is fifth doesn't matter fifth is seventh doesn't matter doesn't matter

00:37:52no but we'll uh ten and ninth that's what you want as long as you're neither not tenth

00:37:59our athletes giving their marks and away they go this is heat one then of our

00:38:05uh semi-final eight heat one of three and our athletes turning

00:38:17and although although a leader is of relative importance i think potapenko they're

00:38:24out pretty close potapenko lane one though leading we'd expect ushida to lead the way

00:38:30potapenko actually in third position at the moment but ushida's got a significantly quicker

00:38:36best time and is respectfully the better swimmer out there you were thinking lane one patrick

00:38:41yeah i think uh ushida will win this heat but uh but the show is also doing good first 75 meters

00:38:48but uh swimming will be decided on the second half of the race because then it's the time where

00:38:52lactate came and uh arms getting heavy and the athletes decide will i go all out or will i

00:38:58stay on 90 and again as an athlete in there patrick it's against the clock like in terms of

00:39:03the heat and the position in the heat with the utmost respect it doesn't really matter it's

00:39:07against the clock it's against the clock yeah for sure so it's from your own race for your time yeah

00:39:12it's your race make sure you race your race and get the job done

00:39:19and uh you can see

00:39:25legs not particularly pumping when we saw her come out of lane six but that's

00:39:29ushida in lane number one so it's lane one and lane 62 athletes

00:39:37wonderful shot of our athletes under the water

00:39:41may i say patrick you look particularly dashing in the underwater shot yeah it's a great shot

00:39:46though isn't it see the athletes coming through and coming out you can see the turns the technique

00:39:52and how they do their underwater kicks here ushida on lane one she's doing a very consistent good

00:39:59race here but again she'll be wanting at some stage to conserve and preserve those deltoids

00:40:05in her shoulders bicep muscles and forearms and for the record it will be a victory in lane one

00:40:12for ushida lane eight batashova will touch in second and potapenko will touch in third but the

00:40:18winning time 211.68 patrick is probably a relative for ushida a relatively average time for her yeah

00:40:25i mean it's it's still a good time for for the woman and uh but i think she saved some energy

00:40:31for the laser run and what will she do now as we see a replay of that eight what will she do now

00:40:36in terms of getting herself ready for the laser run do you spend any time rehabilitating anything

00:40:42stretching anything or have you just got to stay warm and get prepared and get in i think the first

00:40:46thing you want to do is getting out of the swimsuit and then you turn on your put on your

00:40:51running suit and then you relax take a breath and then you slowly start to move a little bit to get

00:40:57your muscles like smooth and then you start stretching and preparing immediately for the

00:41:03and that is exactly what uh ushida who you just saw in your shot just then and that's the uh the

00:41:09leaderboard uh sorry the swimming touch points at the minute after the swim but that's skewed

00:41:14because we've not had heat two and heat three but for the record there is the uh leaderboard we will

00:41:19discern that a little as it we get our heat two and heat three complete

00:41:26eight

00:41:28next up langreth in one guzzi arceo

00:41:34malyshevska

00:41:37as well as edez and xiang

00:41:42malyshevska did well in the fencing arceo in there after a bit of a twist of her ankle but

00:41:50she looks okay we'll get a good look at how that is off the start blocks to be honest

00:41:54and again we see a little bit of uh cooling technique because it's it's all important

00:42:01if you can keep that core temperature it's all about the core temperature patrick right

00:42:06the the german team we have some cooling vests they're filled with ice cubes and then we can

00:42:10wear them that's what we do between the events to cool our bodies and i think she's having some

00:42:19ice in the towel as well yeah mariana arceo and she does a lovely heart to the camera there's arceo

00:42:33she has one of the best smiles out there for me

00:42:37this will be quite interesting in the race because their times are really close it's just two seconds

00:42:41three seconds and uh you know we are all athletes we all want to be better than the one next to us

00:42:48we will see maybe someone decided to give 90 percent and then they changed their mind during

00:42:53the race okay maybe i will go 95 to 100 yeah i was going to ask you about that it's kind of the

00:42:58ego thing isn't it you know i want to beat you but you know we saw it in some of the younger age

00:43:04groups as our athletes are welcome zhang takes a place towards their marks we saw some of the

00:43:09younger athletes a bit of an experience as well in the um in the semifinals wanting to come first

00:43:14or second yeah it doesn't matter no it doesn't matter yeah you see you see there's the athlete

00:43:19everybody yeah yeah i came first yeah but does it matter yeah well we'll see that in the uh laser on

00:43:25top nine and we'll see if uh first second third do cruise in or indeed whether it's the psychological

00:43:30advantage i finished first in my semi yeah lifts you so the athletes called to their blocks

00:43:44bit of activation work going on for zhang

00:43:53and away they go look at that in unison as well just as patrick suggested looking at the

00:43:58times here they're very similar so i'll be interested to see who pushes out here you

00:44:02can see arceo in your shot there right at the front and in fact it looks like indeed lane three

00:44:10i think i'll say we might just have taken an early lead here patrick it looks like i think

00:44:14rebecca langre also keeps up with her on lane one yeah isn't too far away and i think lane eight

00:44:23zhang is uh putting in a good performance as well like a guzzi in fact in there in in the mix

00:44:31it's uh fascinating to see the different swimmings that look at that shot goodness me

00:44:35beautiful aerial shot you can see here from the olympic stadium here in zhejiang

00:44:41it is as gorgeous a venue as you can possibly see and quite right for

00:44:45the world championships as there's our leader from mexico

00:44:50mariana arceo

00:44:55it's also about like different athletes they split the race different for example i go fast

00:45:01on the first 100 and maybe slow on the second and we have at least they start slow and they

00:45:05speed on the on the second half of the race so we will see how it will behave she can keep that

00:45:12pace or maybe she will slow down mariana is leading the way at this stage

00:45:21and she's a bit of distance between a couple of the athletes behind her does that say that

00:45:26arceo is really going for it here or maybe others are keeping a bit in the tank

00:45:33if we see the split here maybe she's going all out nearly all out

00:45:40her time is worth 216 and she's having now like 73 seconds i think she will maybe do 216 in the school

00:45:49well she hits the final tumble turn in the lead but alongside her

00:45:58this uh looks like he's going to be a very close one two three to be quite honest

00:46:07in it blanca guzzi though beats her to it jack second arceo in third

00:46:11blanca guzzi had a pretty strong finish on the last 50.

00:46:19so the winner blanca guzzi and again it's all about their times janga second back second and

00:46:25a half back mariana arceo so those athletes now have the advantage of getting out ahead of heat

00:46:32three they almost broke the water perfectly together there patrick beautiful shot yeah

00:46:42i mean competing in this venue gives like an extra motivation

00:46:46because it's so beautiful here you want to show your performance here it's crazy it's impressive

00:46:51isn't it but i'm interested in the the athlete perspective that you look around and think this

00:46:56is this is it this is look at this place i think everyone come when they first enter the stadium

00:47:01they're like okay i want to do good here i wanted to show my performance i want to be good in this

00:47:06stadium and want to do my race here the voice of patrick dog our summarizer for this of the

00:47:14semi-final there we go guzzi top of the board at the moment but again we've still got another heat

00:47:18to go third heat in the swimming but that is the leaderboard at the moment our computer system will

00:47:24very quickly after the final heat tell you who's got what lead in the in the laser run which will

00:47:31follow here so this is the last of the heats we will list the athletes for you as they patiently

00:47:39make their way song french abdul masoud prokopenko gulyash and serbanati of lithuania and again

00:47:50patrick having a look at the splits it would seem gulyash i think gulyash will win this heat if she

00:47:57will go all out and uh yeah but the rest pretty close maybe exact pokopenko

00:48:06so we have song minsong of korea first up

00:48:13and these athletes a reminder this is their semi-final they have a final on saturday

00:48:18so they're how you do the balance in cape french of grayburn how you do the balance of

00:48:24i'm gonna be in the top nine i'll preserve something for the final or you can't do that

00:48:28surely no you can't do that i mean everyone wants to be in top nine people pushing from behind the

00:48:34i think you can maybe relax on the last lap if you see okay it's safe but before there's no no space

00:48:40to save some energy and we see that in semi-finals as well don't we with the athletes and we've seen

00:48:45you you know just just the line you're done that's it yeah finished everything left out there yeah

00:48:51everyone is giving 110 percent yeah you've got to you've got to now this is a

00:48:56fascinating approach from gulyash she's gone the whole towel over the head and i don't blame

00:49:03it because that thing your head will take up so much heat especially with the swim cap

00:49:10hair all all in there as well here comes serapinati

00:49:15serapinati is uh t-shirt we'll need to

00:49:23be ready for the swim very very soon but yeah the um i'm also interested in fueling particularly for

00:49:28the men patrick we'll probably get on to that maybe in between the break for the swimming and

00:49:32the and the laser room but the women and of course the men the men on a friday for a saturday how you

00:49:37refuel and get the fuel back in to be ready we'll pick it up probably after the the swimming as a

00:49:42talking point but it's something again that fascinates me with uh with how you manage this

00:49:48and here goes our final heat then you will hear the acknowledgement of the start to get this heat

00:49:52underway they don't hang about and away we go our athletes into their freestyle stroke

00:50:04and we are expecting michelle gulyash in lane five to be taking

00:50:15a lead here

00:50:18in fact song min song in lane number one with a good sprightly start

00:50:25gulyash in second song in third and serapinati leading at the moment patrick

00:50:38i mean she's one of the strongest swimmer in the field uh since years she was always good in

00:50:43swimming it's no surprise that she's also that she can also win this competition and if you see

00:50:51the the whole ranking gulyash she's also one of the strongest laser runner and uh serapinati

00:50:57some sometimes a little struggling with the laser run so gulyash thinks oh maybe i can save some

00:51:01energy here i feel my laser running strong and maybe uh yeah but she will just uh have to go

00:51:07all out here and jeva is indeed doing that serapinati is trying to put in what she can

00:51:13you can see this interesting battle actually they're in lanes next to each other just going

00:51:17back to what patrick said about you know ever the athlete in lanes five and six if they're in

00:51:21lanes one and six they're probably not as bothered about each other but they're in five and six and

00:51:25they can see it but it's for sure at this stage it's um it's a good strong swim by the swimmers

00:51:32on the outside song on lane one's doing well but gulyash leading serapinati in second place and

00:51:39song in third but gulyash is stretching out a little bit of a lead here as well patrick

00:51:44yeah she's attending the lead and uh i think it's because she knows that uh she has to do a good

00:51:53swimming to keep her like position in top nine at the end of the of the day alive like keep that

00:52:02gulyash is going to win this one she's going to win it that's a relative canter as well

00:52:06you'll see a touch to take the win and the finish at the time 210 56 it's a good time song two and

00:52:12a half behind serapinati three and a half behind yeah it's a good time and maybe serapinati save

00:52:19something for the later on don't be so stiff in the arm that's the that's the thing our final

00:52:25athletes come in and it makes that much of a difference when your lactic's building up and

00:52:30you're really going kind of red zoning going hard really hard but that ties you up just that bit

00:52:36much more for the shooting yeah yeah and the lactate is kind of difficult because 10 minutes

00:52:41after the race it really kicks into it and then you have five minutes to the laser on start so you

00:52:47really try to keep it low and be ready what can you do what do you do do you get massage or is

00:52:52there not enough time oh there's no time for massage because to get out of the suit dry your

00:52:57body then get into the track suit and then uh there's no time for much you just move your arms

00:53:03shaking a little bit there is your start and uh gulyash was good from the word go

00:53:11gulyash had the better last 12 month best time it's fair to say on paper and she demonstrated

00:53:19that serapinati of lithuania was close in for a lot of it but i've got to say in the last 50 meters

00:53:25the uh hungarian just exerted her authority i think it's fair to say

00:53:31uh thanks for taking the time to join us by the way on uipm tv wherever you are around the world

00:53:37we very much appreciate the time of the day there we go there's the swimming points and

00:53:44swimming total at this stage then patrick dog how do you think this one plays out

00:53:49i mean everyone is in danger in front because uh there are strong runners coming like from

00:53:56the second half of the field for example malicevska dominiac they're pretty strong

00:54:03the koreans jessica wally she's always dangerous she's now in 18th place but

00:54:08she can run pretty hard so 18th is still within possibility of nine i need i need to see the time

00:54:15there's a gap but i mean here with this heat with the shooting everything can happen in pentathlon

00:54:20let's see a replay of the swimming discipline then shall we

00:54:50so that's this swimming discipline finished for our athletes and a welcome respite from the heat

00:55:14i cannot emphasize enough how uh how significant that that heat and the respite is um patrick i

00:55:21mentioned earlier on about refueling and i as we just moved from the pool so we've just to give you

00:55:28a bit of a preview of our laser on the laps five laps of the 600 meter track they

00:55:34visit the laser shooting range four times four series at 10 meters five hits in order to move

00:55:42out of the range if you time out at 50 seconds you can move on but a 50 second shoot at this elite

00:55:46world championship level is a disaster for our athletes frankly and the first across the line

00:55:52finishes so we start with a handicap start is the important thing to remember here there is a

00:55:58handicap start for our athletes so they will see athlete number one will go off first and then they

00:56:05will ultimately have to hunt them down and chase them down we will bring you the start list

00:56:09imminently you saw a penalty area there on the start line as well that's for

00:56:14any penalties incurred but again at this level you would find it unlikely yeah how do you refuel

00:56:19for the run first of all we'll talk about semi-finals final later what are you getting on

00:56:23board it something quick energy gels bananas yeah some energy gels some some bananas uh you drink

00:56:30most of the time because it's easier to also you have some like some water some neutral like

00:56:36electrolytes and something that stuff that that brings you back and uh this is what you do in this

00:56:4115 minutes yep and shake out your arms yeah yeah a bit of practice in the range go familiarize

00:56:47yourself with your pistol after the the swim yeah the coaches normally go after the swimming

00:56:51immediately with your pistols to the shooting range set everything up for you that you just

00:56:55have to come and start your warming up and what about semi-final to final so for the women that's

00:57:00they get friday and then there's final on saturday men have got friday to saturday how do you make

00:57:05sure you get the right calories in that you need because you'll burn you know your body can hold

00:57:10two and a half thousand you'll burn those yeah yeah you burn a lot and then you go back you you

00:57:14have some like shakes yeah you're using and it's a it's a big task for our physios yeah i can tell

00:57:21you because after every competition they work till late in the night giving massage to everyone

00:57:27like preparing everyone for the next day like uh there we are everyone is very thankful for them

00:57:32yes and they the people always talk as well patrick about the team when there's a team

00:57:37loses a team competes the team travel as a team and that's what you're talking about physios coaches

00:57:41help and assistance that you get from within your families you know your families are part of your

00:57:45team as well right they'll they'll pick you up when you're down and they'll keep you level when

00:57:48you're up yeah yeah that's where you grow together you might mean you spent six months of the year

00:57:53together on camps and competitions and that stuff so yeah our athletes just making sure that

00:58:00everything's in order our athletes will be in spikes for the laser run this time in ankara

00:58:06we saw most of them in carbons yeah carbon the alpha fly yeah shoes like marathon shoes

00:58:12because it was not possible cops part of the the lab was asphalt but here spikes

00:58:18gives you an advantage yes they do and they'll uh they'll help and our athletes just familiarizing

00:58:23themselves reminding themselves some jessica varley under under shade and you can understand why

00:58:29hand sweating as well patrick on the pistol also because the grip is getting hot

00:58:33so will be interesting will be interesting and you can see the reflection in the sunglasses there

00:58:40and the uh the targets somebody give that camera operator a gold star please

00:58:46very impressive well done but you can see the 10 meter 10 meter target

00:58:51we should thank our team as well by the way because we uh we have somebody who's working

00:59:02very hard to get us the stats we're we're high in the uh high in the gods here in the

00:59:06olympic stadium in zhang jiao and uh we are setting up earrings yeah yeah the important

00:59:17things but some of it's superstition as well right you know lucky earrings lucky socks

00:59:22maybe maybe a bit of that in there and you can see a cooling vest that's one of the best so

00:59:25talk us through that patrick yeah it's like it's a cooling vest you put them in the fridge

00:59:29or you have like ice like pockets where you can put ice cubes inside and then it cools you down

00:59:34pretty helpful in this conditions and the idea is of course you've cooled down your

00:59:38core body temperature so the more you can keep your core cool yeah keep your internal organs

00:59:43cool because they're the things that will give up and say uh stop running yeah that's where

00:59:46athletes fall over correct so we have the start list patrick yeah the start list is thus

00:59:54we'll talk you through it in a few members time but ultimately song min song will take a seven

00:59:59second lead um and i know i know which position you've looked at straight away it's right away

01:00:05look to ninth position yes it's the german and then i saw the handicap time of uh 42 seconds

01:00:11and then i immediately went down to 18th position jessica wiley as i said before yes it's

01:00:16one minute and seven so it's just 25 seconds to ninth place in pentathlon this is definitely a

01:00:23doable time so you're so 18 can qualify yeah 18 can qualify but they've got to shoot well if they

01:00:30shoot well if they do their job like as they do normally and jessica wiley she is a good laser

01:00:36runner she was kind of injured at the beginning of the year but now she's back her performances

01:00:40were pretty good the last time so she can definitely qualify so our athletes warming up

01:00:45their eight and a half minutes they have to go uh final preparations and making sure that they

01:00:50have their timing chip so you can see our athletes attaching the timing chips to their left foot

01:00:58and they're just making sure that the chip is in place

01:01:03mariana arceo is going to be an athlete that we focus on because we've got some

01:01:08wonderful graphics here uh patrick that's and we've looked at you with this in mind as well

01:01:12by the way but it shows uh along the bottom you can see their medal um cabinet a trophy cabinet

01:01:18and what mariana has there's a olympic world olympic ranking and senior world ranking in there

01:01:24and she's still very very young you can see her birth date in there but the the fascinating part

01:01:29of this for me is compared to average how they're performing and where they're performing three

01:01:34percent up on her average laser run and three percent up two percent up on swim as well so

01:01:39performing fencing is is compared to average down the middle but performing better in terms of the

01:01:45other disciplines yeah so you can see how they really improved their performance during the

01:01:51season and everyone is on his peak now and you can see as well where mariana has handicapped

01:01:56started and finished and she will she picked up places in bath and lost a place in in cairo but

01:02:04a bit of a bit of a mixed bag to be honest in ankara 18th 18th was a start and finish but

01:02:10you can see our athletes again it's interesting to see uh where they start and finish remember

01:02:16mariana started the laser run world championships there as well she took part in the laser run

01:02:21world championship so she's more than aware of the uh of the conditions and where does she start

01:02:28she starts in eighth patrick yeah she's two seconds safe yeah i mean she's a pretty good

01:02:34laser runner uh i don't know sissy this season i saw her sometimes struggling with the shooting

01:02:39that's maybe also happened in bath but her running is like really fast she's a really really fast

01:02:45runner she struggled with a shooting laser run as well maybe she should just use it for training here

01:02:51and uh i cross fingers for her because i like her and i she deserves to be a top nine

01:02:58yep blanca guzzi will run the rule over blanca's uh stats as well you saw a warming up just then

01:03:04not a lot of warming up needing to be done here gold medals in the cabinet as well for blanca guzzi

01:03:12always nice to have the golds in there patrick no i mean she's a pretty impressive

01:03:17athlete she's sometimes struggling with the fencing but her laser run is always very very

01:03:22impressive so i think she's also kind of big top nine here yeah blanca guzzi then

01:03:29sofia gold and budapest gold for the record uh fencing as you suggested there patrick ten percent

01:03:35down on the average but a laser run eight percent up and a swim three percent up which are the last

01:03:39two disciplines we have here in zhengjiao in this semi-final and then again we get to see

01:03:46her start and finish times and places i beg your pardon and you can see sofia starts seven wins

01:03:52budapest starts seventh wins sofia starts 11th seventh so she picks up places in the laser run

01:03:58yeah she's definitely one one of the athletes everyone is afraid of when they see her in the

01:04:02back and uh yeah i think she will make a good race here if everything went normal will be normal

01:04:08blanca guzzi is in sixth i think i just saw guzzi with unmatching shoes as well did i see or duff

01:04:15my eyes deceive me we will see as we push into the laser run but the running spikes were definitely

01:04:21in there and rainbow of colors it's fair to say as our athletes continue their warm-up some have

01:04:26opted for hats some have the opportunity to have visors sunglasses all round because just looking

01:04:31at the range as well here patrick it is in is in sun for i think all 18 of our athletes yes

01:04:38and the whole rate shooting range is in the sun and uh it would be better for the athletes if

01:04:44shooting range will be on the other other side of the the other half because then it will be in

01:04:49the shadow but everyone has the same condition so it's fair and that's the important thing isn't it

01:04:54that none of the shooting bays are in the shade yeah because that would be a level of uh of

01:04:59disadvantage and this make no mistakes everybody this is high pressure for these athletes this is

01:05:04semi-final top nine go through uh james zanadakis his trackside with an interview for us james

01:05:11well olympic bronze medalist roger kovacs always a pleasure to speak to you especially at this

01:05:16exciting part of the uh competition here we are in the heart of the uh shooting range you've

01:05:22obviously got two athletes you're keeping a keen eye on blanca guzzi and michelle gullash blanca

01:05:27guzzi is in a very good position as is gullash i think these two are going to be comfortably

01:05:31through to the semi-final in this position no i think both for hungry and girls are good and

01:05:36they are good in les aires so i hope they make a final easy but the weather is so hot so easy easy

01:05:44but i i hope they can do so no worries how are your athletes adapting to the heat because listen

01:05:51hungry is not the coldest country in the world but it's definitely not 40 degrees i think they

01:05:54are good they are good in good shape so it's you know it's raining i think they will be good

01:06:00the gap from ninth place down to 12th place is less than 10 seconds at this point in the

01:06:06competition that's not a lot of time this could be a really exciting battle don't you think

01:06:10yeah we will see but i think the hungarian girls are good runners they are the best in the world

01:06:14now so i think it will be good all right well listen best of luck to you best of luck to all

01:06:19our athletes we're looking forward to a good laser run thank you for your time as always

01:06:22olympic bronze medalists roger kovacs thank you for your time thank you thank you thank you well

01:06:26james is on the dacius track side for us and um the hungarian strong in the run it's fair to say

01:06:32patrick yeah the men are strong the women are strong i mean they do something right in running

01:06:37yeah for sure yeah serpen nighty just receiving some coaching instructor that's just having a

01:06:45look at the start list there the handicap list there i think patrick just checking the handicap

01:06:49time i mean you don't want to risk 10 second penalty because you start too early and a little

01:06:55bit of breath work i think there maybe for mariana yeah you like most of the athletes there before the

01:07:01shooting they start praying you know it's you're like please let me shoot good yeah and everything

01:07:07will be fine any help you can get patrick dog any help you can get yeah so this is semi-final a

01:07:14semi-final b incidentally won't be a million miles away from semi-final a will bring you all the

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01:07:48this is a start list for the laser run song has a seven second head start over abdullah maksud

01:07:55french in there but what we're looking at is for impartial reasons rebecca langer down there in

01:08:01ninth patrick uh 42 seconds off the start but actually i'll say there's only a second behind

01:08:08ahead i beg your pardon and jang at 43 potapenko at 45 there's nothing in it no there's nothing i

01:08:16think to the first shooting there will come as a pack like between uh seventh place and uh

01:08:2312th place they will be all together after the after the first lap the net first shooting and

01:08:27then there will be the mind game starting you know like uh try to be cool tell me about the

01:08:33mind games like if you go there sometimes you're like okay i will overtake them and be first in the

01:08:38shooting range you try to make a fast first shot to set them under pressure if you have a green

01:08:43light first then that's something like that and because of course you try to do your own race to

01:08:49try to be focused but it's hard to not have an eye on your like on the other athletes you see that

01:08:56part of it i'm fascinated with the discipline trying to stay focused but especially if they're

01:09:00next to you in the next bay yeah yeah if they're next to you and you see it it's in your head so

01:09:05much of this sport is psychological it's clearly very physical these athletes are our supreme

01:09:10athletes but the psychology as well it's fascinating right we have 30 seconds then

01:09:16ladies gentlemen boys and girls until the start of this laser on semi-final remember and it will

01:09:23be repeated a few times and i make no apologies it's the top nine that go through so the leader

01:09:26that will go out first under handicap with a seven second lead is song min-sung of korea who

01:09:33you would expect to go through it only takes a bad trip to the range to change everything

01:09:38i think this semi-final will be decided on the shooting range

01:09:43so off goes our first athlete we will focus on song min-sung as we go throughout the race and

01:09:50a reminder the first lap is without a trip to the shooting range so under handicap our

01:09:56athletes get underway third place athlete cape french is immediately right behind abdul

01:10:01masood fourth athlete out goodyash out i saw a nice embrace between the hungarians as

01:10:13java set up in the it is out from the lithuanian contingent and our athletes start to leave in

01:10:20these this is where it starts to get interesting here patrick because we're talking about sixth

01:10:25seventh eighth ninth and out they go and at the moment we will focus on that athlete

01:10:29in ninth position that is the german athlete rebecca langre but they will have one lap

01:10:35without the pistol and when they head into the shooting range it is that position that

01:10:39currently is ninth with the number nine being chased down by the chinese athlete zhang

01:10:46you can see on twa's position poco banker she's one of the strongest runner

01:10:50and she's already making closing the gap on this group 9 10 and 11

01:10:58you can see her how she's running up the field just in the back of that shot you saw her that's

01:11:06for sure and uh the good news is that that ankle issue for mariana arceo is clearly not a problem

01:11:14she's running freely and running well and that is the focus at the moment is rebecca langre

01:11:20she is in ninth position but the athletes there you go visual gap and just as patrick told us

01:11:26it's potapenko who's already into tenth yes she's uh like really strong and running and

01:11:34i think all this pack will go together on the shooting range and then

01:11:37we will see what happened in the next lap it's going to be fascinating and i can tell you that

01:11:44the uh ninth place is not overly safe in fact just as i suspected it's been taken

01:11:52i mean uh rebecca she's doing her own race uh i talked to her before and she said yeah i have to

01:11:57take care before because of the heat and uh i will not go too fast at the beginning and

01:12:03if you have a solid shooting and you are in position you can uh

01:12:08well you can see at the top of your screen in the top left is our leader that's sungmin song

01:12:12so you don't lose anything you don't miss out on the leader but that is our leader in the range and

01:12:16that the number 12 you can see anastasia prokopenko is our athlete currently in that coveted

01:12:23ninth position but as patrick dog alongside me current athlete olympian quite rightly says

01:12:32it's going to be all about the range first up so into the range they go abdul maqsood out with an

01:12:378.65 which is impressive guliash and french out 10 and 14 respectfully guzzi and serapinaite are

01:12:45in again shooting pretty well they're looking by both might be around 10 seconds potentially

01:12:50serapinaite just missing number five three times now still not out serapinaite out in 17 guzzi

01:12:57still in 16 so serapinaite out in fifth and guzzi out in sixth but in come

01:13:05prokopenko in 15 arceo in 21 so we've got a a shakedown now for the athlete in ninth place

01:13:14because it's arceo who took a little bit of that in the range but immediately patrick

01:13:21prokopenko is going to take that ninth spot straight back you would think arceo's digging

01:13:26in a bit there as you can see prokopenko she's speeding up now and uh i don't know if arceo can

01:13:36well arceo's fighting with her and she's not giving up impressive impressive very impressive

01:13:41in fact you could argue that arceo the mexican has just really given a little bit of a warning

01:13:48sign to prokopenko to say you're not going to cruise away from me all the kind of mind games

01:13:54you have in your head when you're in the shooting range that you oh maybe i'm not that much faster

01:13:59than her in running i have to shoot well so yeah fascinating but we also keep a very keen eye on

01:14:05the athlete wearing number 10 you can see there that's xiang because xiang is in 11th position and

01:14:11arceo in 10th at the moment those two want the number nine position so who can catch the next

01:14:17trip to the range as our leaders head towards the range you'll see in the top of your shot there

01:14:25song winsong is into the range in first and barring a catastrophe in the range which our

01:14:31leader will not have because it's two from two so far she is going to make it into the top nine

01:14:36i'm sure three from three and four from four from song and this is impressive final three targets

01:14:41misses number five but out in 13 and our leader will be happy with that i'm sure and in go the

01:14:46rest of the pack goulash french abdel mahsud for second third and fourth and they are pretty much

01:14:52neck and neck goulash leading by one leading by two now to french and abdel mahsud and goulash i

01:14:58think he's going to come out in the lead here but all eyes on that place that all important ninth place

01:15:07just trying to keep an eye on who's coming into it

01:15:09and we'll have to see in the shakedown who's going to come out in ninth because guzzi is out

01:15:13serpignante out prokopenko in 12 serpignante in 13 there's going to be tight this one

01:15:19arseio still in there and arseio out in 15 also out in 12 is xiang so all eyes arseio is in 8th

01:15:29and arseio out in 15 also out in 12 is xiang so all eyes arseio is in 8th at this stage

01:15:41jang comes out and jang is the athlete the korean wearing number 15 that is ninth so what has

01:15:47happened to prokopenko maybe moved up the field a little bit yeah she moved up the field she's

01:15:54in front in the range so that is 12th position at the moment that's athlete 15 that's huan jang

01:16:02from korea and jang just coming out of the riding arena does have athletes close behind her

01:16:14she's got a lead jang maybe of 10 meters next in is batashova who started 17th yes

01:16:23she did a really strong like two shootings the first two shootings were really strong and she's

01:16:28also like a really solid runner so yeah actually i expected her to be to run up the field but

01:16:38pretty pretty early more early than i expected but this is uh yeah she's definitely one who could be

01:16:43in top nine the maniac is just behind batashova but the important position is jang so in that shot

01:16:49you see there the athlete at the front with about a seven or eight meter lead is our ninth position

01:16:54that's jang into the range for the final time comes song min-seong i think that's her fourth

01:17:00trip to the range final time the third shooting now that's jang so you can see in the main shot

01:17:07there that's jang in ninth position third in and out well done for song 11.19 song min-seong is

01:17:13out gulyash and french are in there as well in second and third in your main screen there that's

01:17:19the battle for ninth that's guangxiang of korea out will come abdul-maqsood and french pretty

01:17:25close i don't actually with a 676 second and third french and abdul-maqsood are close together here

01:17:31guzzi and prokopenko prokopenko still brilliantly here but that's in the middle of your shot there

01:17:37is the battle for ninth and closing in batashova starting in 17th patrick dong is i think that

01:17:43gonna hit the range at the same time as jang yes yes yes i told you the field is very close

01:17:49and in pentathlon everyone everything can happen and i have the feeling not everyone is shooting

01:17:53well maybe because of the weather conditions so if you have a good shooting like batashova does

01:17:59batashova's gonna be out pretty soon 21 for arseo gets out batashova 14 16 for jang that's the fight

01:18:06this is a fight you can see ahead of you that is ninth folks that is ninth position that is

01:18:11batashova and jang jang takes an inside line and takes a lead i think we all know what's happening

01:18:17here it looks like it's going to be a final lap shootout between those two anyone behind them

01:18:22that could potentially catch them i wonder dominia has a pretty strong last lap if she's shooting

01:18:28well on the last shooting she can definitely be a part of this uh ninth place so there's going to

01:18:34be another trip into the range for these athletes so that's the battle for ninth that you can see

01:18:40in front of you batashova in behind jang jang's done well to pull out a little bit of a lead here

01:18:46patrick yeah she's extending a little lead maybe gives her some extra couple seconds on the shooting

01:18:52range it's a smart move in in this position in this position and uh if you have the power you

01:19:00can see here the refreshing area yep the showers they're not running through but tell me why maybe

01:19:05they're no need maybe they have enough power i would definitely take a little shower in that

01:19:10area i hate them when you have them in marathons i run marathons very slowly patrick i know you

01:19:14look at me and think no chance i'm running very slowly i never go through and i hate them because

01:19:18they just disrupt your face your eyes and maybe you got sunglasses on you got sunglasses on you

01:19:22got water all over them how do you shoot maybe that's the point possibly that's the point our

01:19:26leader in then you can see in the top left that song winsong who is our leader and cape french

01:19:32i can see there's some wind going on some of the fences they're moving around there

01:19:37maybe it will infect the shooting now on the last shooting yeah so outcome our athletes uh song is

01:19:43out abdul maksud and french are close but song winsong our leader is out of the range cape

01:19:48french shooting well here as is guzzi guzzi catching french out in the 11.58 world on her

01:19:53and she will go out in second 8.99 for blanca guzzi that's good 12.86 for guliac but this is

01:19:58a battle for ninth brocco penco's done brilliantly in flying up this field but to get your eyes on

01:20:04the korean athlete of 15 which is jang and 17 batashova they know it as well they know it they

01:20:12know this is a place in the final of the world championships up for grab they go in at the same

01:20:16time maria is still in there batashova and jang this is important as to how they shoot and who

01:20:23shoots well batashova has a slight lead but jang does well to catch up to two now jang takes a

01:20:28lead 3-2 and now 4-2, 4-3 this is going to be tight out comes jang batashova needs to hit that

01:20:33final one first time otherwise there's a problem batashova is going to struggle here and eventually

01:20:37in 18-19 here we go here's a fight here's the scrap and arceo i think may have been pushed down

01:20:44into ninth position because she may have been overtaken by jang she has i think arceo is her

01:20:51athlete batashova is her athlete in ninth and behind batashova is jang so jang just behind

01:20:58batashova batashova occupies ninth at the moment

01:21:03batashova with jang close in behind patrick how do you see this one shaking down i think

01:21:08batashova maybe has a stronger finish but i mean you have your home crowd here you are

01:21:14in china you want to show your best and you want to qualify for the final so maybe she has some extra

01:21:19extra um excitement in her well jang is closing here as well i think so that's

01:21:30jang of china and batashova and there is our leader and you can see them cruising in

01:21:37it's just about to jog before our athletes in first second and third and they will cross the

01:21:42line they will cross the line with relative ease the first six are coming to see chang

01:21:46overtaking batashova now yeah chang is taking that position it's a big position

01:21:51it's an important position zhang has put the pedal down as well zhang is pulling away you can see our

01:21:57leaders coming over the line here but i can tell you that zhang is pulling away in that ninth

01:22:01position and i think she's going to secure it here there she is in the front of your shot that's

01:22:05number 10 and jang looks like she's going to make it there's going to be a late sprint is there going

01:22:10to be a sprint are they going to catch zhang i don't think they are jang is going to secure ninth

01:22:14position for china and indeed over the line in ninth comes jang that's the big position the

01:22:21difficult position in tenth is batashova who crosses the line that's heartbreaking she will

01:22:26not make the final but well done to the chinese athlete mingyu zhang over the line to take ninth

01:22:34patrick dong yeah was a very impressive race i didn't expect her with just a strong finish

01:22:41uh that's from china chang and um yeah it was a lot a lot of movements in the field

01:22:48it's crazy yeah and she took it kind of as the 400 meter track is kind of the 200 meter start

01:22:53point didn't she as our athletes put it in to get across the line in this semi-final

01:22:58i mean the the last 300 meter you can just have do you have a big like a big turn like the last

01:23:04300 it's nearly straight you feel it straight and you can just put your head down and start to sprint

01:23:09and yeah she had a stronger finish very strong finish very very strong so we'll give you a

01:23:14classified of our athletes who make it through to the final in the first of our semi-finals

01:23:22athletes have their water in a cooling box incidentally so just been delivered to them

01:23:28now to keep their body temperature cool and rehydrate as quickly as they can

01:23:33but an interested battle for that all-important ninth place and that's the athlete that secured

01:23:40it that's ming yu zhang of china with a real effort getting the water on the back of her neck

01:23:47you are into the world championship final with a hell of a performance and we can see from the

01:23:54warm-ups osseo warming up and being prepared gulyash and the hungarians with the high fives

01:24:01and frankly song min seom didn't look back no no she didn't look back was a start to finish first

01:24:08place uh there was no doubt with this shooting what she showed up here that she can easily make

01:24:14it into the top nine yeah and she did make sure it was secure at as did abdul maqsood as did kate

01:24:20french kind of sad that rebecca didn't made it because uh for me she deserved to be in top nine

01:24:28but the semi-final was hard and the constellation was not the best like a lot of fast runners in the

01:24:34back sometimes it's like that yep and that's the nature of elite sport and this is elite make no

01:24:40mistake semi-finals of the world championships here in jing zhao and the shooting as ever

01:24:44imperative look at them all in the range at the same time all of our athletes uh kind of the second

01:24:51half of the field as it were impressive performance from batashova she was outstanding yeah it was

01:25:00like i mean with this outstanding performance like when you showed when you can show this i

01:25:06think oh maybe she deserved to be in top nine sadly it didn't work at the end but with this

01:25:11laser run and i think it was just the last shooting where she was struggling a little bit

01:25:15which cost her the ninth place

01:25:19impressive though it was that the battle with

01:25:23yang batashova you can see there were some good battles out there

01:25:30some really impressive battles but batashova eventually

01:25:36extended somewhat and uh it all it all hinged really on that final shoot the final trip to

01:25:44the range that our leader song min-sung made light work of quite frankly looked really impressive

01:25:52batashova as well was um probably the uh most impressive of the athletes to in terms of

01:25:59performance yes i will i'm uh i'm looking forward to see the results of the laser run and see what

01:26:05what her running was what the shooting was to see that it's like kind of analyze how the

01:26:11woman's level compared to man's level but this was really impressive you saw the coach for the

01:26:17chinese athlete zhang there on the turn just really encouraging saying this is nine this is

01:26:21your final you got to make it here and that's what all the coaches said on the last lap who is nine

01:26:26how how big is the gap to nine even if you are before nine or after nine like it's uh this is

01:26:31the position everyone is uh looking around because you need to know and and as well at this stage

01:26:37we've got to remember our athletes have been through fencing swimming laser running they're

01:26:40mentally fatigued your brain's ability to to do maths isn't good no you need instruction two

01:26:46seconds you're in night that's all you need yeah that's all three words so there's your qualifying

01:26:50list of your top nine that go into saturday super saturday final song french guzzi are your one two

01:26:57three qualifying in there the the leaders kind of cruised over the line and you can see what

01:27:04places they made up or not it's not particular the seventh play seven places for prokopenko was

01:27:08impressive but again the top six kind of cruised over the line in all fairness to them just trying

01:27:13to relax into it as best they can make sure that they um make sure that they are refreshed and

01:27:20ready to go for their final which is on saturday and there's the athletes who unfortunately

01:27:26didn't make it on this occasion patrick sadly they didn't make it but as you can see also

01:27:32jessica wiley moved up a couple places um at the end he was struggling she was struggling on the

01:27:37shooting range a little bit so uh was that was the reason why she couldn't catch up more and

01:27:43could be part of the game uh battling for ninth place but she also did a good later run yeah and

01:27:50then we'll see what the next thing if i will bring how would you sum up that semi-final patrick

01:27:55of yeah i mean the the athletes who did the best performance there in top nine so i think uh it was

01:28:03a pretty solid and fair semi-final it's been a pleasure and a gift to have you alongside me to

01:28:09have that insight from an athlete it's really important really interesting you know you're down

01:28:13there you've been down there here in jing jang you've experienced the the condition so for now

01:28:17thank you very much indeed i have to say thank you no a pleasure the pleasure has been all ours

01:28:21we will be back for semi-final the second semi-final of the women's event

01:28:26in a short while so make sure you tune in on uip and we'll bring you all the action but for now

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