Thomas glides to gold as Asher-Smith misses out

Out in front Gabby Thomas was already raising her hands to her head, overcome with the realisation that she had just this very moment become the Olympic 200m champion.

- Andy Bull

A couple of strides behind her, the new 100m champion Julien Alfred was striding smoothly through the line in second place, and there just a little further back still, came Dina Asher-Smith, Darryl Neita, and the USA's Brittany Brown, shoulder-to-shoulder-to-shoulder in lanes 4, 5, and 6, with just the three-hundredths of a second between them. All three of them were struggling with everything they had for that last extra millimetre that would win them the bronze. It was Brown who got it.

So another Games has come and gone for this talented British pair without either winning an individual medal. Neita finished fourth in the 100m, and was fifth in the 200m, Asher-Smith didn't make it through the semi-finals of the shorter sprint, and came fourth in the longer one.

Asher-Smith is 28, Neita 27, and the truth is neither of them will necessarily have a better chance to win an individual Olympic medal.