British 800m runner’s amazing three-week journey Paris call-up came last week after Jake Wightman’s injury
Three weeks ago Elliot Giles was on a camping holiday in the Swiss alps but on Wednesday the British athlete advanced to the semi-finals from his heat of the men’s 800m at the Paris Olympics.
Giles finished his heat strongly, coming home second behind the gold medal favourite Djamel Sedjati, the Algerian runner with an eye on bettering the world record of 1min 40.91sec set by Kenya’s David Rudisha at London 2012, and ahead of Hobbs Kessler of the USA.