Olympic Games 2024: Laura Muir runs PB but misses out on medal

Muir was so far back at one stage that she was almost in a different departement. The leaders were gone.

Eventually, she girded herself, dug in, and somehow clawed herself back into contention to the extent that she had a sniff of a medal as she hit the top bend.

Ultimately, she’d left herself too much to do, though and had to settle for fifth.

Fifth, having sliced a half second off her previous PB, set in this city in July. And fifth, having slashed almost a second off the time she posted in winning silver in Toyko.

Turns out Muir was right about this event having moved on.

“You know what, I’m just really happy with it,” she said. “I ran exactly how I wanted to and the fastest I ever have, so I can’t ask any more.

“They went off so fast at the start and I just knew if I did that I’d be out the back door. So I had to run my own race.

“I picked off so many people but the race was just 10 metres too short.”