by Mark Cullen
How I found Christmas in London on the top of a double-decker bus early one morning in August 2017.
Featuring US 800m runner Drew Windle and his remarkable family, this was first published on 2/11/18.
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| Drew Windle and Family London Olympic Stadium August 6, 2017 |
A revised version of this article, which focuses on the story of World Indoors, was published by World Athletics in June 2018:
Here is the original from 2017.
Christmas came early last year.
August 7th at 1:10 am.
On the top level of a
double-decker bus in London.
Apparently I had not read far enough in the World
Championships media guide to learn that London shuts down its subway system
before midnight on weeknights.
More likely, I passed over that section as it never crossed
my mind that one of the world’s great cities would close its subway system
overnight, most especially not during a track and field world championships that
set a record in selling over 700,000 tickets.
Possibly people needed a way to get home when events
finished after 11:00 pm and the subway station was a mile away?
Further proof that I’m not in charge.
