Rhasidat Adeleke came up one, agonising place shy of stepping onto global podium

“But at the end of the day I tried my best. That’s all I can do,” she said afterwards.

CLOSE: Rhasidat Adeleke competes in the women's 400m world final. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Not just yet. Not here. Not now. There will almost certainly come a time in Rhasidat Adeleke’s career when she steps up on to a global podium, beaming that bright, brilliant smile to the world, but in Budapest on Wednesday night, the Dubliner came up one, agonising place shy of that goal.

Fourth. The habit in this sport is to affix to that position a sense of regret, remorse – a long-lasting sentence of wondering what might have been. But just as it had been 24 hours earlier, when Ciara Mageean walked off the track in that confusing, close-but-not-close-enough state of limbo, that wasn’t the case.