• Sprinter beats Hughes and Francis over line in searing display• Williams takes women’s 200m, McColgan storms to 5000m winOn a raging inferno of a day, Adam Gemili summoned a performance of
fire and ice to highlight again why he is one of
British athletics’ most compelling figures. First there was a blistering performance to break the
UK championship 200m record. Then, coolly and calmly, he explained that he has a folder on his phone containing the negative things that senior figures have said about him, which he uses to as a motivational tool.
It certainly worked as Gemili, who has been dropped from individual to relay funding by selectors, powered home to win in 20.08sec – a time made all the more impressive given it was into a -1.3m/s headwind – to comfortably beat the pre-race favourites, Zharnel Hughes and Miguel Francis.