Faster track to passport for Budd

It will take a minimum of five years for six members of Eritrea's World Cross-country Championship team to gain UK passports and qualify to represent Britain. The process was not always so long. Twenty-four years ago this month, Zola Budd had a passport processed indecently hastily, within weeks. Months later she raced in the Los Angeles Olympics, infamously but accidentally tripping home heroine Mary Slaney.