“If you want to win it, you’ve got to take it from me,” Matthew Hudson-Smith had warned his 400m rivals on the eve of Paris. And yards from glory, one did.
For the second night in a row in the Stade de France, a British athlete reached out for gold and had it ripped away by a charging American, Quincy Hall following in Cole Hocker’s footsteps, down the home straight, across the line and halfway round the top bend to ring that victory bell.
