Olympic Games 2020 - Greg Rutherford hails hard work of silver medallist Laura Muir
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Updated 07/08/2021 at 00:27 GMT
Eurosport analyst Greg Rutherford says he has never seen a harder-working athlete than the new Olympic silver medallist at 1500m Laura Muir. The 28-year-old has had disappointments in previous major meets, but impressed in Tokyo. You want it? We have it. Stream every Olympic event live on discovery+
'I've had to pick myself off the floor' - Rutherford on another eventful day of athletics
Greg Rutherford says that Laura Muir is the hardest-working athlete he has ever seen - and all her endeavour has paid off with her Olympic silver medal in the 1500m in Tokyo.
"1500 metres is an incredibly difficult race," said the former Olympic champion on Eurosport's Tokyo Today, "and Laura Muir absolutely whizzed round the track, looking unbelievable, to come away with that silver medal, beating Sifan Hassan as well, it was incredible.
"A national record, she's the Olympic silver medallist, she's the person that sadly has not been getting those global medals. - but she's putting more hard work I think I've ever seen an athlete do, her and her coach Andy Young.
They absolutely go for it all the time, and it's remarkable to see, genuinely - and I use the word a lot - but it was brilliant. That's what we needed."
Muir spoke to Rutherford immediately after the race - which she finished in a British record time of 3.54:50, breaking her own previous best by 0.72 seconds - and told him: "I can’t put it into words how much it means to me.
"I’ve missed out on a podium finish at a global level so many times and never got on the podium.
"My very first global medal is at an Olympics and it’s a silver against that field in a British record time.
"I could not wish for anything better.”
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