A fortnight of soaring glories continued for Eilish McColgan as she ran her heart out to take a brave European 10,000m silver for Britain here in Munich.
Once again, the 31-year-old applied the template that had served her so well at the Commonwealth Games this month, pushing to the front early and applying a cobra-like squeeze for lap after painful lap.
But this time the Turkish athlete Yasemin Can proved to have a powerful antidote. With seven laps remaining Can made a decisive move, kicking hard to quickly establish a lead that she never looked like relinquishing before coming home in 30:32.57.
But McColgan had enough left in the tank to charge past the Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter on the final lap to take an epic silver in 30:41.05.
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