You can never please the public.

Dai Greene won the gold medal at the Athletics World Championships yesterday in the 400m hurdles.

Now I commented to a colleague what a fine achievement this was and he agreed.

When I looked on a BBC blog about Greene's win this morning a numebr of commentators were dismissive.

It was a flash in the pan. It was the slowest time ever to win the event. etc etc

Flash in the pan? Well Greene was a definite medal contender so hardly a flash in the pan. As to the time? Fair enough but at least 6 in the event had previously broken 48 seconds. Times have generally been slow at Daegu and anyway you can only beat what's put in front of you.

True Greene is no Ed Moses but he deserves credit for delivering when it matters. Nice one Dai.