That, at least, was encouagement for her best event, the 800m tomorrow."It was a good time for me and Hayley Lewis, who is one of the big threats in the 800, didn't perform that well," she said. "If I can step up the endurance work over the next few days I'll be fine."Asked about the mood in the British camp after a less than scintillating start to the Games, she said "Generally it's really good. OK, we haven't won any medals but there have been a few personal bests and you can't really ask any more from people."James Hickman reached the final of the 200m butterfly, beating the world record holder, Russia's Denis Pankratov, while setting a British record of 1min 58.16.The swimmer Dawn Fraser, Australia's most successful Olympian, was admitted to an Atlanta hospital yesterday apparently with chest pains. A rock band plays at weekends and the food is traditional Montenegrin. Again, few non-Montenegrins come.By last year, 12,455 nationals of the former Yugoslavia had been granted some form of asylum in Britain.

Most of them have been given temporary "leave to remain", which must be renewed each year, but it is estimated that almost three times that number have come to Britain since 1991, making them one of the fastest-growing communities in the country. The digits 011 are the dialling code for the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Croats and Muslims stay away.Bosnian Muslims have "exclusive" cafes in Bayswater, and a weekly "Muslim night" at a club in Earl's Court, while nearby, in Royal Oak, is Nest, a Balkan restaurant run by Montenegrins. "I lost my brother in the Serbian invasion and I can't forget that," she says "We never mix with Serbs. Why should we? I would rather meet English people." Dozens of bars, clubs and restaurants have sprung up in London for Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and Montenegrins, refugees from the conflict back home.

And just as their homeland is split on ethnic lines, so, too, is their London. 011 is a small, dark, basement restaurant in Shepherds Bush where you can order a variety of pork dishes, drink hot plum brandy and hear traditional folk music But you won't find a non-Serb at the tables. Sunday in an up-market restaurant in Paddington, west London. A hundred or so young Croats gather each week at what they call the Croatian Club. Here they dance to their favourite Popa, drink traditional grape brandy and talk about home Marija from Osijek sips brandy at the bar. She came to London just before the war started in Yugoslavia, and has been here ever since. Although the temperature for Britain's game, which started at 5.30pm, did not reach the 90s of earlier in the day, it was the high humidity that caused the havoc. The players were offered the drip at the interval when it was established that they had lost three and four kilos each during the first half. With the British Olympic doctor, the team doctor, Ian Beasley, and orthopaedic consultant Richard Dodds in the dressing-room at the interval, there was no shortage of specialist medical expertise as the players were given the drip, the needles being inserted while they were lying on the dressing- room benches.Significantly, when weighed at the end of the game, Garcia's loss had been reduced to two kilos, with Laslett having only lost half a kilo.David Whittle, the team manager, confirmed that apart from a few bruises, the squad had no injury problems, but that the offer of a drip would be made to all the players during the interval of their game today against the Netherlands..