It took 20.12 seconds of raw speed and another 90 minutes of protracted debate for the athletics programme to explode into life at the Commonwealth Games. Zharnel Hughes thought he had won the 200m for England and did an entire lap of honour before a man with a sky blue suit and far darker expression finally told him he had been disqualified. Joy, despair, a late-night appeal and simmering temperatures on the warm-down track made for a night pulsing with intrigue. For Hughes, who started this year running away from an armed thief in Jamaica, this must have felt like floodlit robbery. This time the gun was the prelude to a breathless sequence as Hughes, watched by former training partner Usain Bolt, made a lightning…

Source: The Times April 12, 2018 16:04 UTC