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00:00It's for the Chinese fans will be the men's 4x4 final
00:08And it's the kind of thing lots of young fans in tonight as well. We're not too late
00:12It's 9 o'clock local time here. So we've got another 40 minutes or so of action to come here
00:16So the athletes provided the entertainment hopefully hooking a few into this amazing sport as well
00:21Just will be amazing innovations happening at the moment across the sport including the world athletics ultimate championship next year as well
00:27Where we'll see lots of different things
00:30Here's the Great Britain team
00:32Lining up. Yep, and China will be hosting the world championships in Beijing in 2027 and at the moment we heard in the press conference
00:42President of World Athletics Seb Co say that
00:45Athletics is currently the ninth most popular sport for
00:49Chinese children
00:51They want to get it to fifth fifth most popular. Why isn't that already? Hey, well events like this really do help it
00:57And it's evening here in Guangzhou and we are ready for the mixed 4x400
01:09Meters relay final
01:12This is how we line up
01:14lane nine
01:15Ireland
01:19Raftery
01:20Healy
01:21Keane and Cadden
01:24It goes man woman man woman no choices in that
01:28They were second in their heat yesterday some big irish fans in the house belgium lane eight watrin
01:36Hanson's mabil and damaras
01:39Lane seven
01:44Lane seven the bronze
01:47Olympic medalists not quite this team, but in this one goes lumped
01:52Malik swift and kelly. What can they do here tonight?
01:56They are favorites next to
01:59United States of America in lane six cheers go up in the
02:04The
02:05Arena
02:06Robinson
02:07Akolo
02:08Blockburger and Irby Jackson who was exceptional yesterday. They are the paris silver medalists
02:14They are the ones to beat
02:16Australia lane five
02:19Van Rantingan
02:20Beer
02:21Thorn and Bull
02:23Beers having a busy night. They were second in their heat yesterday
02:26What can they do tonight from lane five?
02:32Here we go south africa having a brilliant weekend so far
02:36They were second in their heat yesterday. Muthu Makulu will lead them out followed by van Staden
02:40Chezzi and van Niekirk
02:43Finalizes the south african quartet
02:47And kenya
02:49What can they do from lane three?
02:52Caporante
02:53Chebet
02:54Tanega and Okech in this man woman man woman formation for kenya
03:03Lane two
03:04Seventh of the olympics third in their heat yesterday. It is poland
03:08Kedrzewski
03:09Bartonowska
03:10Solzczyk
03:12And Losowska
03:13Is the polish quartet deep breath there the scene is set
03:19The eight teams are ready
03:24Nerves are plenty
03:30Glory is up for grabs here
03:32All these teams are going to the world championships
03:37But which will go there as the world athletics relay champions
03:45All teams wait nervously there in the pen
03:48As we start the mixed four by 400 meters in a stagger
03:55Poland two Kenya three south africa four
03:59Australia five usa six great britain seven belgium eight and ireland nine
04:06And we are off look at the middle of your screen a strong start there for the silver medalist
04:16From the paris olympics that is usa
04:20Robinson going strong there also on the outside left of your screen belgium
04:25Watrin having a really good first couple of hundred meters here as we come around the bend america
04:32Already overtaking great britain lunt has lost that advantage as we come down into the home straight america
04:41Are definitely in the lead as we pass over into a staggered exchange but ireland coming back very strong from raptory there
04:48But it will be the usa who hand over in first place oh no australia absolutely outstanding
04:56Pass over there they take the lead that is beer on the second leg for them where did they come from goodness me they're having a stormer
05:03Can beer maintain this she's had a busy night already going down the back straight and the stagger will unwind and will really
05:10See where we're at so that is australia one usa two kenya three and then if anybody gets us behind that i mean it's belgium
05:18Followed by a pretty close back for australia extending that lead at the moment beer having an absolutely outstanding run
05:25Okolo for the usa just coming round onto her shoulder as we come into the home straight going into leg three or four kenya having a
05:34Brilliant run as well oh my goodness look at that oh catch it from kenya absolutely sterling
05:41australia partner in first place kenya second usa third
05:44Three medals up for grabs here and three teams are away at the moment great britain hot pursuit in fourth position of south africa
05:50Well down at the moment and it's australia onto this third leg with terrell thorn being challenged now on the outside by kenya as brian
05:57Tenaga goes storming down the back straight johnny blockberger for the usa
06:01Staying cool in behind at the moment and just starting to ease himself up and belgium in the background leading the chasing back
06:08USA kenya and australia away here usa the defending champions and they will have on the final leg lena irby jackson
06:15Who was part of their quartet that won in the bahamas 12 months ago as they look to defend their title here
06:21Blockberger has moved away thorn is rallying well for australia the rest at the moment have got plenty to do the
06:26medals look between these three and irby jackson take the baton for usa and streaks ahead it's anyone's
06:34guess at the back they're very tightly knit but usa storming ahead australia in second place with
06:41ball kenya in third with chibet three medals they're all going to the world champs but who's going to go there
06:48with the most glory stretching out behind that we'll get images in a second but usa absolutely
06:54sterling running from irby jackson australia just behind irby jackson making it look nice and easy
07:00this is what the usa mean by business when it comes to a relay mix four by four hundred meter silver
07:09medalist of the olympics irby jackson tearing down the home chain it'll be a win for america australia
07:15are just fading but they'll take it home in second and a brilliant run by kenya to third
07:21disappointing for great britain there in fourth place and we are off with the finals and there you
07:29have it usa world athletics relay to champions kenya season's best oh and an oceanic record
07:38for australia they're going to be chocked with that
07:43it's a second oceania record of the weekend for australia in fact they set one yesterday and they've
07:47just beaten it again by 14 100th of a second usa the big favorites in that race with a strong team
07:53a loaded team and comfortable winners but what a performance from kenya mercy chibet by the way and
07:58mercy okay quite the weekend they've run in nearly everything as team australia celebrate quite rightly
08:03some of the athletes who are here running a little bit earlier on now up there supporting and of course
08:08not only the oceania record a silver medal as well but forty thousand dollars to the winner and the small
08:13matter of twenty thousand dollars to the australians for coming second kenya get ten thousand dollars
08:19as well and the usa celebrate the fastest time we've seen here at the world athletics relays with
08:23that 309 54. yeah brilliant run from there and brilliant run from the kenyans what you were saying
08:29earlier chris about them not just being known for their long distances they are really showing up on
08:36the global stage of sprinting right now as well and they have a 2019 bronze medal already at the world
08:42athletics relays in this event that is their second bronze medal uh in the last few editions of
08:47this and no wonder they are smiling mercy chibet i'm not surprised she needs a bit of help to stay
08:51upright she really has but she ran the second leg and she's still recovering there now she's put it all
08:56in and what a great bronze medal for kenya that will be celebrated very well i'm sure uh a great
09:01performance earlier on as well for me kenyan four by 100 meters men's team just looking at some of the
09:08splits for the australians uh ellie beer 50.33 terrell thorne 45.50 luke van ratigen out of the gate
09:15with 50 45-1 for them in second place the americans were chris robinson again very impressive 44.97 out of
09:24the blocks johnny blockberger 44.16 was a brilliantly judged leg from him as well down the back straight
09:31poppy mallet was the uh the fastest of the british pair of female athletes 50.60 for one of their more
09:37inexperienced uh british relay runners but at the moment the the team changes that great britain and
09:41northern ireland made unfortunately putting their stronger athletes uh elsewhere meant that they
09:46weren't able to quite compete as they would have liked to do in this uh mixed four by four but great
09:50experience for the likes of sam lunt on his debut out here and for poppy malik and bailey swift in that
09:55quartet as well and for ireland well again they had uh plenty to do they did have quite a bit of experience
10:00actually in that team with the likes of phil healy and lauren cadden several major championships between them
10:07but again prioritizing other events in world championship qualification so that's the first of
10:13our five finals that remain remember we had the mixed four by 100 meters final a little bit earlier
10:18on this is a look at the uh look at the camera by the way going down the back straight the gimbal
10:23it's one of our cameramen i've forgotten his name now but he's rather he does that job than i do this
10:28one to be honest with you it does look quite fun though doesn't it full of jeopardy full of fun the
10:33camera work here the shots we are being shown are outstanding the level of athletics that is being
10:39shown across the world right now i mean athletics it really is in a brilliant place off the back of an
10:44exceptional olympics all eyes on tokyo later this year then the ultimate championships next year oh it
10:53really is an exciting time superstars left right and center but what we love about the relays at this time
10:59of the year is at the start of the season it's a chance to see who's been quite busy in the off
11:03season you know who's put the work in and a chance to try out maybe some younger athletes we heard with
11:08the chinese team they're going through a transition a moment phasing out some of their more mature
11:13athletes and bringing in some youth and it's a really good opportunity for that and it's really
11:18brilliant to see absolutely outstanding there from usa easy as you like it she's had a great weekend
11:25and uh yeah wow it was funny just off the shot as the australian team as a bull was by the way that's
11:31bull's second leg of the night as well so you can wonder why she's looking a little bit tired coming
11:35down that home straight keeping her eye on the screen to make sure she knew that there was only going to
11:39be a threat from kenya and nobody else uh in fact mercy chibet there she was listed to on the second
11:44leg and ended up running the anchor didn't she so some of the teams have been there we get the team
11:48declarations very late anyway but some of those have been changed at the last minute as well from what has been
11:52officially submitted but bull just out of shot were her teammates who were encroaching further and
11:57further onto the outside of the track the nearest she got to the finish line with their arms in the
12:00air jumping roaring her on and the americans within at irby jackson there you go ellie beer second leg
12:08of the night for her as well and a medal to take home to australia as you say one of the one of the more
12:14local journeys here something like nine or ten hours to australia from here by flight which is uh relatively local
12:21yeah they'll be absolutely chuffed with that really great weekend out for that australian
12:28team oh chibet oh she looks how i feel at the end of this commentary
12:33it makes more sense now how tired she was looking when she ran the anchor and not the
12:36second leg as she was listed for but there's the kenyan team and some of their supporters and coaches
12:41ellie beer is absolutely delighted with her silver medal lovely medals as well here at the world
12:46athletics relays in guangzhou 25 as you mentioned just a big series of events here of course the
12:51two diamond leagues have just gone past in xiamen and in shanghai as well the world championships
12:56here in beijing in 2027 the world indoors were in nanjing a few hours flight away from here
13:03where a lot of these uh oh not a lot of these athletes but some of them
13:06were there confirmation of that championship record for the united states the fastest time we've ever seen
13:11in the world relays in this event another oceania record for australia their second of the weekend
13:15and kenya another bronze for them after the 2019 repeats
13:24so four finals to go we're into four by one territory next that is the south africa men's
13:30four by one which will be the event after this one so they are in the cool room at the moment
13:46you