Dina Asher-Smith completed her sprint treble bid and immediately set her sights on the 2020 Olympics as Laura Muir claimed her maiden outdoor title to cap a historic European Championships for Great Britain.
As the images flashed from Jack Laugher in the pool in Edinburgh to Jess Learmonth running through a park in Glasgow to a young Belarusian winning the 100m hurdles in Berlin, it was hard to escape the feeling that these European Championships have created greater confusion than anything else.
YORKSHIRE’S Marc Scott underlined his status as one of Great Britain’s best long-distance runners at the European Championships as the Northallerton athlete finished fifth in the 5,000m.
DOUBLE Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee admits he is considering retirement at the end of the triathlon season after finishing a disappointing fourth at the European Championships.
As he steps onto the international scene once again, this time to take on the very best athletes in Europe, this could well be the year that 20-year-old pole vaulter Adam Hague comes of age.
I DO not think there is any doubt at all that funding is needed for social care. We cannot carry on trying to get this sorted out on an as-and-when basis every year.
It is hard to look at the field for this weekend’s British Athletics Championships in Birmingham without feeling that the sport in this country is at the start of a new dawn.
It was a day for records tumbling in the sweltering heat of the 2018 London Marathon, as Sir Mo Farah, wheelchair athlete David Weir and Mother Nature all made historic contributions to the showpiece event.
THE athletes might have the monopoly on ‘Super Saturday’ but England’s divers made it ‘Fantastic Friday’ as Jack Laugher capped off ‘the best day in English diving history’ to complete a hat-trick of titles.
