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There was also the small matter of the controversy of the low blow as Dubois was mere centimetres away from knocking down Usyk and perhaps finishing the fight.

That is a height five centimetres higher than any of her 12 rivals for world gold have managed this season, and in a line-up missing the entire Olympic podium.

The Swedish 25-year-old secured victory at the event with a clearance over 6.02m before he attempted to improve his record mark, set in August, by one centimetre.

"When you come to examine the footage of the attacks, you will see that he must have avoided the knife and the consequences of that attack by centimetres," Mr Brown said.

"Every centimetre of sea-level rise exposes another 2 million people to annual flooding somewhere on our planet," said Prof Shepherd.