• Kenyan stuns English runner with unconventional late surge
  • Scotland’s Laura Muir takes 800m bronze after photo finish

So close. Again. And poor Keely Hodgkinson must be wondering what on earth she has to do to crown her outstanding talent with a major outdoor 800m title.

At last year’s Tokyo Olympics, and the recent world championships in Eugene, the brilliant 20-year-old went toe-to-toe with the extraordinary American Athing Mu, only to leave clasping silver. And here at the Commonwealth Games, where she was the red-hot favourite, she fell victim to one of the bizarrest ever victory runs at a major championships.

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