Kenya-born Bernard Lagat won a fifth World Championship gold medal for Team USA in Osaka and then proclaimed: “I feel very special.”

IN the end there was such a love-in, it felt wrong to have forced the two sides in the Ryder Cup to play each other at all.

American sprinting endured an agonising night at the USA Track and Field Championships as Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin was disqualified from his heat before being re-instated.