Dina Asher-Smith discovers role-model status and targets bigger tests

Sprinter faces toughest test this summer against the double world silver medallist Marie-Josée Ta Lou in BirminghamOne small measure of how Dina Asher-Smith has catapulted into the mainstream came at her local Costa on Friday morning, when she was given a coffee on the house. “The lady was saying: ‘You come in here for six months and we chat about everything but you never mentioned you were an athlete!’” says Asher-Smith, smiling. “There has been so much inte