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This summer, Lucy Bull and Edward Scott delivered two rare British results in the javelin at the European U18 Championships in Rieti. Bull won the women’s title with 56.60m, while Scott claimed silver in the men’s competition with 70.02m. Two medals which, on their own, are obviously not enough to herald a revival of British javelin. Yet they raise a broader question in an event where many of the leading throwers of recent years have come from countries in which cricket plays a major role : does the United Kingdom finally have a generation capable of beginning to close the gap ?