What a thoroughly dispiriting spectacle that women's 100m final was. I youtubed Jonathan Edwards triple jump wr from 1995, after watching the triple jump final and the stadium was jam packed full of enthusiastic and excited spectators.
Fast forward to 2019 and the athletes are being watched by, err.....no one. In many ways athletics has brought this all on itself but (as someone who had the minerals in their youth*) athletics is dying a slow painful undignified death.
*represented England as a schoolboy 800m.