She saved her best throw until last but it was not good enough to re-enact the bronzed glory of the Rio Olympics a year ago. But nobody felt the hurt more keenly than Hitchon herself who sobbed in the bowels of the London stadium afterwards, struggling to articulate her disappointment. Hitchon could not replicate that form in the final, producing a consistent but underwhelming set of throws. But Hitchon, who opened with a foul at the Rio Olympics, smiled and even did a shoulder shimmy after launching the hammer a very respectable 71.47m, which briefly gave her the lead. “If I make the final in London after having that big gap in training I would be over the moon.”

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2017 20:48 UTC