The world 1500m champion, Jake Wightman, has said he was dreading racing the distance again at the Commonwealth Games but a word of advice from Sebastian Coe, and a pep talk from his mum, made him realise he had to seize the opportunity of a unique hat-trick.
Wightman will be one of the headline acts in Birmingham when the athletics programme starts on Tuesday after his shock victory in Eugene, which made global headlines as his father, Geoff, was calling the race. However, he had been thinking of switching to the 800m after experiencing a post-world title comedown until he read an article in which Coe urged him to make history by winning 1500m gold at the world championships, Commonwealth Games and European championships in the same summer.
