Brilliant runs from USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Oblique Seville of Jamaica saw them win 100m gold in the women’s and men’s races respectively

“I’ve learnt in the past just to stay in the present,” laughs Matt Hudson-Smith in interview with the Beeb – I like that. And he’s right, of course – the past has gone and the future is a promise: the only thing he has, as an athlete, but also we all have, as people, is what’s going on right now.

We’re back watching footage of the 100m heats; goodness me, Julien Alfred looks immense, a classic example of an athlete who wins something when not quite expecting to, then becomes a million times better as a consequence. Consider also: France after the 1998 World Cup.