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The BBC's Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly said the EU side "appears to hold all the aces" at the summit.

When a manager gives a player an ultimatum like that he better hold all the aces.

In fact, though, America doesn’t “hold all the aces.”

In winning the big four, Rutherford has gone further still than those two friends and team-mates and become only the fifth British athlete after Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Jonathan Edwards to hold all the aces at the same time.

Lewis Hamilton says his Formula One title duel with Mercedes team mate and championship leader Nico Rosberg is like a game of poker but the dominant duo may not hold all the aces in Belgium this weekend.