• Laura Muir wins her first outdoor gold in 1500m
Sometimes athletics is a simple sport. A bunch of people run round a track and at the end Dina Asher-Smith wins another gold medal. On the final evening of these European Championships, however, the 22-year-old looked desperately up against it with the British team fourth in the 4x100m relay as the baton was thumped into her hand. But then Asher-Smith applied the afterburners and once again the impossible suddenly became a glorious reality.
First she torpedoed past a Swiss vest, then a German one and then she left the Netherlands’ Naomi Sedney for dead, too, before crossing the line in 41.88sec – the fastest time in the world this year.
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