Trackside

Back to Hampden via the Park and Ride, and an even quicker entry to Hampden Park where we were pleasantly surprised to find our row N seats were just four rows from the track on the back straight, giving us a great views of some fantastic athletes in top-class competition: Jessica Judd winning her 800m semi-final; Jazmin Sawyers grabbing a silver with her last effort in the long jump, buoyed on by the back straight crowd; David Rudisha being pushed back to silver by a searing finish from Botswana’s Nijel Amos in the 800m; Scotland’s Elidh Child getting an emotional silver in the 400m hurdles; the women’s 200m seeing the three English girls through to the final where only the glorious Blessing Okagbare could beat them, leaving silver for Jodie Williams, bronze for Bianca Williams, and an unrewarded fourth place for Anyika Onuora (each in a personal best time) boding well for the sprint relay to come; the men’s 200m still producing (in Bolt’ absence) a Jamaica 1 2 3; amongst it all were the wheelchair 1500m where Jade Jones won bronze in the women’s race and the fastest man on three wheels, David Weir won the men’s gold – producing just the one rendition of the (in my view mistakenly chosen) English anthem of ‘Jerusalem’, of which I can belt out quite a few words but unfortunately not all from the same verse and not necessarily in the correct order.