– Laura Muir ended eight years of ready by profitable gold within the girls’s 1,500 metres on the Commonwealth Video games on Sunday and the Scot mentioned her earlier disappointments had solely made her stronger.
Muir had completed eleventh within the 1,500m closing in entrance of her house crowd on the 2014 Video games in Glasgow and was unable to compete 4 years in a while the Gold Coast as a result of veterinary drugs exams.
“I feel I might have mentioned to the Laura Muir of 2014 ‘your time will come’,” mentioned the 29-year-old, who gained Olympic silver for Britain in Tokyo.
“It’s rotten on the time however you study from it and also you come again stronger. This meant quite a bit to me – lacking the Gold Coast (in 2018) as effectively, it’s been bugging me for eight years.”
Muir, who additionally gained bronze within the 800m in Birmingham, clocked a time of 4 minutes, 2.75 seconds to take gold forward of Northern Eire’s Ciara Mageean and Australia’s Abbey Caldwell on Sunday.
“It's so good to come back right here and never simply get one medal however two and in such a aggressive discipline,” she added. “These women are quick. It means quite a bit.”
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