Britain’s Josh Kerr lost out on gold in the final yards of the men’s 1500m final after an Olympic-record run by Cole Hocker of the USA delivered the shock of the Games – as the Team GB men’s cycling team also took silver in the velodrome.
It had been billed as a grudge match, a “race for the ages” as Sebastian Coe described it, in which Kerr, the world champion from Edinburgh, and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the Olympic title holder, would compete for the top podium and bragging rights in Paris.
