Golly, I'm not very good at this late-night viewing. Fell asleep in the middle of second night from Moscow, so missed the GB girls running in the 400m relay final. Came last, but they were the only female finalists from these shores.
I've been very impressed with Jimmy Watkins: I knowhe faded in the 800m final, but he'd bettered his PB twice getting there and he FRONTRAN in both his semi and the final--we haven't had a middle-distance man who did that for a decade or two. And Jenny Meadows did well, too. Needs to find some speed and strength for the last lap, but she's plucky, too.
I thought both men's and women's 800m finals were soooooo exciting, as was the men's 400m final. Mutola just was so over the moon that she won again. Amazing, isn't it? She's won so many many titles and yet this was obviously just as vital to her as the first.
She's off to Melbourne now. And in this form I wouldn't give anyone else a prayer. I still don't understand about Mozambique being in the Commonwealth--it was a Portuguese colony, not part of the British Empire. How did that happen, then?
And Bungei and Mulaudzi didn't let Yuri Borsakovski do on home territory. He came third. Good thing this happened in post-glasnost Muscow or he'd be gulag'd by now!
And there's a new young German multi-eventer who pipped the others by 5 points! I love it when fresh faces do the bizz.
Star of the Indoors is Dervla O'Rourke.

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