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Laura Muir has a bigger goal ahead of ‘emotional’ Glasgow homecoming

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About an hour’s drive northeast of Glasgow’s Emirates Arena, where she will bid for glory to a hero’s acclaim this Saturday, a teenage Laura Muir would eagerly await the end of the Kinross High School day.

In the depths of winter, the bell would signal time for Muir to hastily lace up her cross-country spikes and make the short trip down to the school playing fields. By the time the rugby and hockey teams would arrive soon after, and switch the floodlights on for their afternoon practice amid the gloom, they would be greeted by the slight figure

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