- Muir broke British record finishing behind Faith Kipyegon
- ‘I thought, keep pushing, keep pushing. I gave it everything’
As one athlete called Faith blasted towards immortality, another – Britain’s Laura Muir – never lost hers. And in a women’s 1500m final of breathtaking intensity, she was rewarded with a gutsy and overdue Olympic medal.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared,” said Muir, recalling the moment she gunned past Sifan Hassan on the final bend to move into the silver medal position. “Because the past few times I have lost it in the last 200 metres. I was so scared that I was going to get pipped to fourth.”