WORLD OF Twell leads Europe with 10k triumph
LUTHER BURRELL admits he is out of his comfort zone after making his Super League debut for Warrington.
The former England rugby union international played the final quarter of the Wolves’ emphatic 36-6 win at London Broncos on Saturday.
It was his first rugby league match in a decade, having been dual-registered with Leeds as a youngster, and the 31-year-old said the challenge was his main reason for switching codes.
Burrell said: “That was the one reason I wanted to do it. I’m an athlete and a sportsman first and foremost, and I want to keep pushing myself and not get complacent.
“I’ve achieved things but this some is a great huge STEPH TWELL stormed to victory in the European 10,000m Cup in London on Saturday night, winning by more than seven seconds.
Twell became the first Briton to claim the annual title since Paula Radcliffe triumphed in
2001.
The victory represented one of the highlights of Twell’s career, which in 2011 was threatened by injury.
The Scot suffered a triple-fracture of her right ankle and was out of action for a year, missing the London Olympics. She also lost her lottery funding, but on Saturday night the 29-year-old produced a commanding performance, winning in a Europeanleading time of 31mins 8.13secs. Fellow Scot Eilish McColgan – watched by mother Liz, a former world champion over the distance – finished third in a time of 31:16.76, inside the qualifying mark for the World Championships.