Liverpool-born Johnson-Thompson now faces the prospect of needing to make up a huge eight second time deficit in the evening's 800m race. Friday had initially got off to the perfect start with ...

The 16-year-old recently clocked a time of 1:17.19m in an indoor 600m race, leaving fans stunned ... He essentially has 800m strength with 200m speed. He ran a 22 and 48 split for 200 and 400.