"As much as I [Alan Webb] said I didn’t care what people thought, it’s still there in the back of your mind. It’s made me a strong person, runner and family member.” On getting the “monkey off his back” with the win, Webb said “I always thought it was a gorilla, a gorilla with claws scratching at my face. A monkey is a lot smaller.”
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