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He came into the home straight with a chasm of clear air between him and the rest.

Botswana's Tebogo ran a smooth bend but seemed to lack fluency in the home straight and glanced to his right at Lindsey as he crossed the line in a modest 20.10, one hundredth of a second ahead of the American.

"It was a case of 'if you can't beat him, join him'. It meant I fed off his momentum. I just left a little too much to do in the home straight to catch him."

Senior project manager Jonathan Wade insisted the "complex" project was now "on the home straight", even despite Friday's problems at Heathrow, where an electrical fire caused flight chaos and left thousands stranded.

There are 14 games left so they are not in the home straight yet, and they still have a seven-point cushion at the top.