Seb Coe was full of himself last Monday when he announced over the public address system on the inaugural Javelin service from St Pancras to Stratford International.
"First of all I would like to give you the good news," he said. "I am not driving this train."
"And the bad news. Daly Thompson is!"
It was that sort of a day.
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