Who writes your scripts? Well, clearly not Netflix anyway. On a sodden, puddle-ridden night at the Paris Olympics a star was born. Just not, perhaps, the one most people were expecting.
What a lovely, deliciously unplanned and unstaged moment this was in the rain of Saint Denis. Instead of Sha’Carri Richardson, flat-out favourite and star of the current big budget track and field-ommercial running on a streaming behemoth near you, it was 23-year-old Julien Alfred of St Lucia who found herself skating out across the purple track ahead of the field and running into track and field history.
