Queen steps out on the Olympics running track

Published on Wednesday 4 November 2009 00:05

THE Queen completed an Olympic first yesterday as she crossed the finishing line of London 2012's 100-metre race.

The monarch walked a 20-metre stretch of the track as she was shown around the site of the Games' main stadium in east London.

The Queen also met London mayor Boris Johnston at the site shortly after he was hailed as "a knight on a shining bicycle".

The mayor went to the aid of a woman being attacked by a group of girls on Monday night, chasing them down the street – even though one had an iron bar. Franny Armstrong, documentary maker and climate change activist, was walking home in Camden, North London, when she was surrounded by a group of hoodie-wearing girls and pushed against a car.

She called out for help to a passing cyclist, who turned out to be Mr Johnson.

He stopped and chased the girls down the street, calling them "oiks", according to Ms Armstrong.

"He was my knight on a shining bicycle," she said.