Fingers were starting to touch the keyboard. Intros being formulated, allusions to history made. “Matt Hudson‑Smith last night became the first Briton since Eric Liddell in 1924 to wi …” And then Quincy Hall came from the gods to have everyone pressing the delete key.
The 26-year-old American is known as an epic closer. But with 50 metres left of this Olympic men’s 400m final, we all thought he was too far back. Hudson-Smith was five or six metres ahead of him, the gold medal strides away. But then came the gut punch.
