Only one point stands irrespective of the period taken: Japan has shown all the other rich countries a clean pair of heels. Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest.
I won both the 60 and 200 metres, but it was in the final event, the relay, that I received my greatest fillip. Over the first three legs the French had shown us a clean pair of heels, especially with superior baton-passing. When I took over, Bruno Marie-Rose, the indoor world-record holder, was already away.
Magnificent though Rasari was, you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line.