Welcome to #Doha2015. This is #Doha2015. The place where you get
to be part of the chat at the IPC Athletics World Championships. Today, we get in bed
with Hannah Cockroft, we find out why 3 is a magic number and we set another challenge
for Evan O’Hanlon. We need your tweets and messages, just like this one…
You know I don’t speak Spanish, but the translation here is, ‘a picture of the great
David Casinos’ and they were congratulating him on gold in the Discus F11.
Okay Roomies fans, it’s time for another episode. Now this one features Britain’s
Hannah Cockroft and Samantha Kinghorn, up close and personal. Very close and very personal.
Hello, I’m Sammi Kinghorn and this is Hannah Cockroft and today we’re starring in Roomies…
Oh, Hannah, definitely. I have to shout at her to wake her up in the morning.
Samantha, because she does my hair as well. Sammi sets the alarm and then she has to come
and personally wake me up to get me out of bed.
Probably me, but Sammi talks in her sleep so we’re both as bad.
Hannah, because I’ve only ever heard Hannah, I’ve not heard myself.
Oooh, erm, Scarlett Johansson! Hannah would probably like to play me, wouldn’t
be a very good movie though! She sings a lot, all the time!
Peeing with the door open. Little bit too much information there maybe.
Anyway, let’s see how Hannah got on in the 800m T34. Cockroft was in control all the
way and led home a British one, two, three. This was the first time in Doha so far that
one country has had a clean sweep in one event. Tunisia’s Walid Ktila, Liu Cuiqing of China,
Omara Durand of Cuba. 3 athletes all going for their 3rd gold medal in Doha. That’s
why, 3 is a magic number, conveniently. Ktila completed his treble in the 100m T34
and aims to make it four titles in the 200 on Saturday.
Liu also made it 3 out of 3 over 100m in the T11. Unstoppable, she has been all week!
Whilst Durand clocked up another world record in the 100m T12. An incredible championships
so far for the three of them. Regular viewers will have seen my mate Dave
Henson and his preparations for his international debut in the 200m T42. Well, Dave finished
7th in the final, great effort from my pal but the whole field was no match for Richard
Whitehead who took the gold. Incredibly, in the exact same time as the world record he
set in yesterday’s heat. Now we’ll take a look at the world of social
media. Our first tweet comes from @AngieBallard. She was congratulating her roommate Madison
de Rozario on her win yesterday in the 800m T53 #myroommateisbetterthanyours. Good luck
getting that to catch on. And the next tweet comes from @ScoutBassett.
She is an American 100m runner and you can see from her picture that she is getting ready
for her semi-final tomorrow. And finally, we have one from Instagram. It’s
a beautiful picture of Julia Santos and her guide runner as they won bronze in the 100m
T11. What a lovely image! Now let’s take a look at the medals table.
China now have 30 golds, well clear of Russia. Britain join the US on 10 whilst Poland are
in the top 5 for the first time. It’s time to announce our 3rd challenge
for commentator and world recorder holder Evan O’Hanlon, after the success of his
selfie and song title tasks. Now, we’ve heard that our intrepid Aussie fancies himself
as a big of a rapper…I was unable to compete due to injury, but there’s a little (comp)
here between you and me. So we want Evan to come up with an epic championship
rap and we’ll judge how he gets on later in the week.
Our moment of the day comes from France’s Marie Amelie Le Fur. She produced an extraordinary
performance in the 400m T44 final, winning gold by almost four seconds. A new world record.
That was one of six new world records today so that brings our counter up to 39.
Right, that’s all we’ve got time for. Comments below and #Doha2015!