Muir won her first senior medals in the 1500m and 3,000m at the European Indoor Championships Michael Steele/Getty ImagesWhen Laura Muir and Andrew Pozzi topped the podium at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade at the weekend, it finally gave British athletics confidence to move on from Super Saturday. That magic Saturday at the London Olympics in 2012, when Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford all won gold medals within an hour of each other, was a high point in the history of British athletics that was unlikely to be repeated, but as time moved on it was becoming something of a burden on the next generation. Three years on, the same trio were Britain’s only gold-medal winners at the World Championships in Beijing and when last year’s Olympic Games came round in Rio, Sophie Hitcheon, who won bronze in the hammer,…

Source: The Times March 09, 2017 17:01 UTC