Tokyo: On Tuesday night Jess Hull won a bronze medal. On Thursday night she was tripped, got her leg cut open by another runner’s spikes and fell to the track bleeding but finished the race last.

On Friday night, allowed to race the semi-final after a protest was upheld over the trip, Hull, with a bandaged leg, broke the national record and became the first Australian to make an 800-metre final at a world championship.

That’s quite the week, and it’s not over. On Saturday night she runs the 800m final. Judging by her week, anything could happen.

“I mean, a bronze medal , a record, [falling over]... I’m not one to be dramatic, but this championships has been quite dramatic by my own standards,” she said.

Her run of 1:57.15 not only broke young teammate Claudia Hollingsworth’s natio

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