Amy Hunt left trailing by Julien Alfred in women’s 200m Diamond League final

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Britain’s Amy Hunt was given a jolting reminder of the gap between her and the world’s very best female sprinters as she finished nearly half a second behind Julien Alfred in the Diamond League 200m final. But afterwards Hunt insisted that coming third in a season’s best time of 22.16sec, on tired legs on a dank Brussels night, amounted to one of the better races of her career. “I’ve shown the last few 200s, I’m getting a lot stronger, and I think I was probably one of the closest athletes up to my personal best tonight,” said Hunt, who won four European gold medals last month in Birmingham. “So on…

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