There was a point in the Olympic Stadium on Saturday evening, at around 9.20pm, when you wanted to put the world on pause and just revel in it for a moment before the next wonderful thing caught you round the chops. One day, six Olympic gold medals for Great Britain? Hell, in one hour, around one small oval of track in east London, British athletes won three golds in such dizzying, dreamlike succession that all context and precedent disappeared off into the dark London sky. You tried to grab a record-book before they all went up in smoke. In the 16 Olympics from 1928 to 1996, only once did Britain win more than five golds in an entire Games. Not since 1908 had GB won five in a day, and that...
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