The Games do not attract the very best athletes for every event and next edition in Australia is likely to be on a smaller scale
he men’s 5,000m was not a quick race but it had an exhilarating finish. Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo won it in a sprint past the two Kenyans, Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop, who had been leading since the start. Kiplimo pulled the 30,000 crowd inside Alexander Stadium up to their feet as he passed them both with 100 metres or so to go. In all the excitement no one really noticed the guy they had just swept by on the home stretch.
always seems to produce. It is because exactly the same thing happened eight years ago, when Siosi got a standing ovation from the crowd at Hampden when he ran the last lap of the final of the 2014 Commonwealth men’s 5,000m all by himself. He finished in that race in 16min 55.33sec, 90 seconds behind the field. The only real difference now was that he was 30 seconds slower. Siosi may be the most feted club runner in the history of athletics, and was, undoubtedly, one of the faces of the Games.
Birmingham was a good host. It felt ready for its moment. It made the Games feel as if they were happening in the city, rather than in a fenced-off quarter of it, especially at Smithfield, the inner city site that hosted a Games festival late into the evenings, and Centenary Square, where the organisers parked the huge animatronic bull that stole the opening ceremony from Simon Le Bon.
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