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James Preston led home a memorable Kiwi men's 800m one-two at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne last night, clocking an impressive time and season's best mark of 1:45.85.

Australian distance runner Rose Davies (© Getty Images) When the 2020 Zatopek 10 should have been run last December, Rose Davies was stuck on the wrong side of the Victoria-New South Wales border, with her chances of even getting to the race rapidly diminishing. The border was closed due to the travel restrictions imposed to combat Covid-19 outbreaks. When the border re-opened – for what turned out to be just a few weeks – Davies dashed across into Victoria. It was a timely seizing of an o...