00:00To the 800 heats once more.
00:03Well, it's heat number four of five, and on the outside of Egypt we've got Farouk Mohamed.
00:10Gokabada goes in lane number eight.
00:14Riosh of Spain, 147 man at his best, is in lane number seven.
00:21Kiamala goes in lane number six, and Amador of Mexico is in lane number five.
00:27Another 147 athlete.
00:30Emil L is in lane number four, PB back in March, 146.52.
00:36And Benjamin Lacoselach goes in lane three, as Enrique Ramos is on the inside in lane number two.
00:49The penultimate heat of the men's, 800 meters, round one.
00:54Five to go through automatically.
00:56Two athletes currently in the hot seat, waiting to find out if their time is good enough.
01:011.48 to beat, if you want to get yourself through as a fastest non-automatic qualifier.
01:11A pretty smooth and even start.
01:14As Enrique Ramos gets himself round and unders the stagger as we move towards that break point.
01:21Riosh of Spain is in there as well.
01:24Well, the Italian, Chiara Mella, in the conversation too.
01:29But now Farouk Mohamed gets himself into a more dominant position.
01:34Just on the edge of lane one there.
01:36He's holding his line pretty well.
01:37Farouk Mohamed, Riosh and Enrique Riosh.
01:41And Alejandro Riosh on the inside.
01:43Got to be careful, he can manoeuvre properly there.
01:45Doesn't want to let himself get boxed in.
01:47And now he just puts his foot down a little bit.
01:50Gets himself half a stride or so on Farouk Mohamed.
01:5956.17 at the belt.
02:02And these guys still looking relatively relaxed.
02:05Everybody's still in contention really.
02:06No one cut adrift too far to make any significant waves.
02:10But it is Riosh at the front.
02:12The Spaniard looking strong, looking comfortable.
02:16Farouk Mohamed forced to just settle behind him now on the outside of lane one.
02:21The L's of South Africa moving really well.
02:29Oh, and a trip on the inside of Alejandro Riosh of Spain.
02:34He just clips the kerb.
02:37Managed to stay on his feet.
02:38Managed to stay on the track.
02:39And he's got himself with a metre or so on another trip.
02:43And that's a real shame for Farouk Mohamed.
02:46He was running such a great race and now he travels backwards.
02:50L'Akoshek of Slovenia comes through as well.
02:55Riosh is the one that takes the win comfortably in the end.
02:59L'Akoshek and Els also through comfortably.
03:05Karamella and Amador will round out for the top five
03:08as Farouk Mohamed unfortunately just back to seventh.
03:12another one that just clips the kerb on the inside, found a bit of a wobble
03:17and ended up impacting him for the next sort of 25-30 metres or so.
03:25Mungin and Merheim still safe in their non-automatic queue spots.
03:33Chiara Mella rounds off Amador, sorry, rounds off the top five.
03:40With 51-56 in the penultimate men's 800 metre.
03:48I thought that was really, really impressive from Rios.
03:53He was...
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