“On top of the world” is the apt phrase to explain how someone would feel after regaining a record that was broken 24 hours earlier. Such would have been the case for Botswana’s Isaac Makwala after setting a new African Record in the men’s 400m just a day after South Africa’s Wayde Van Niekerk pipped him to that honour.

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