Another Olympics, another British teenage 800m sensation. Three years ago it was the 19‑year‑old Keely Hodgkinson who burst on to the global stage with a stunning Olympic silver. Now there is an even younger successor, the 17-year-old Phoebe Gill.
It was only last month that Gill’s cover was broken when she clocked the second-fastest under-18 time in history, behind only a highly suspect Chinese mark from 1993. If anyone in the athletics world had somehow missed that, her astonishing performance in claiming a first British title on Sunday will surely have corrected that.
