Updates from closing night of the worlds in Tokyo
‘What the hell?’: Johnson-Thompson shares bronze
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It must take so much to coach Keely to beat Georgia and Georgia to beat Keely. I think, if Keely runs well, she’s close to unbeatable because she’s not far off the world record – before she got injured, she’d planned a hack at it – and over just two laps, there’s not much scope for things to go wrong tactically. If she’s got her PB in here, she can just run it in the knowledge it’ll probably be too hot for the rest.
It must seriously try the patience, waiting a whole meet to compete. And indeed, as I type, Jenny Meadows, Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell’s coach, says “I need this 800m to be out of my life”. I think we can be certain BBC will be filming her during the race and I feel for her; I’ve a mate who’s a tennis coach, and he haaaaates it when his two charges face each other.
