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It’s time to neglect in regards to the bleak information cycle for a second and have fun this athlete’s unimaginable race.

Not solely did Scottish runner Eilish McColgan win the 10,000m on the Commonwealth Video games on Wednesday night time with a house crowd and make a brand new report championship time of 30:48:60, her success has sparked an incredible sense of nostalgia.

Eilish, 31, simply gained precisely the identical Commonwealth Championship race her mum, Liz Nuttall, gained 32 years in the past, proving it actually does run within the household.

The athlete, who has struggled with accidents prior to now, was not within the lead till the ultimate lap across the monitor when she all of a sudden overtook Kenyan rival Irine Cheptai within the house straight.

Unsurprisingly, Eilish sprinted over to her mum within the crowds when she realised she had gained the race, they usually shared a young second.

The next morning, Eilish informed BBC Breakfast: “It was simply an unimaginable expertise, being in that stadium…the noise during the last 200m actually simply dragged me to that end line.

“It was simply an unimaginable night and much more particular to have my mum within the crowd, my dad, my accomplice Michael – it feels surreal to have gained that so a few years after my mum. I can’t put it into phrases.”

She mentioned her mum merely informed her “you’ve carried out it” after they had a celebratory hug on the finish of the race.

Eilish additionally mentioned she was “actually nervous” earlier than she hit the monitor, however that she couldn’t imagine it when she not solely gained, however made a report time.

“I’ve really solely seen it as soon as as a result of a journalist type of pressured me to observe it once I was little, but it surely was by no means one thing that… I grew up with my mum permitting me to make my very own selections, my mum by no means pushed me into athletics and I by no means noticed her medals.

“I used to be by no means pressured to observe her races or something like that, I made my very own resolution to return into this sport and I believe that’s why I find it irresistible a lot, I’m very obsessed with it.”

“I don’t assume it’s fairly sunk in that I’ve actually replicated precisely what she’s carried out. It’s simply very surreal proper now.”

Eilish’s mom Liz additionally informed BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland of her immense pleasure for her daughter, whom she nonetheless coaches.

Liz gained two 10,000m Commonwealth gold medals in 1986 in Edinburgh and once more in 1990 Auckland. She additionally turned a world champion in 1991 and an Olympic silver medal in 1988.

She mentioned: “As an athlete myself, you will have fond reminiscences of getting success and no matter however when it’s your personal kids it’s like 100 instances higher.

’It’s simply a type of actually particular moments and I used to be simply grateful I used to be really within the stadium and capable of expertise how the house assist helped carry her to that gold medal.”

She additionally claimed that with out the Birmingham crowd, “the final 150m would by no means have occurred” for her daughter.