Druce comes close to dream

THE premonition was slightly off the mark, but Tom Druce was not overly worried as he retained his 400m title in glorious fashion at Fairway last evening.

The 24-year-old (pictured) set a new personal best of 46.71sec., but held his hands in frustration as he discovered he had come within one hundredth of a second of setting a new Island Games record for the one-lap event.

He had dreamt he would run quicker.

'I'm a little bit gutted to be honest,' he said trackside.

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