Dina Asher-Smith was agonisingly close to landing a medal in the women’s 200m final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday night. The 28-year-old from Orpington finished fourth in a time of 22.22secs, just two hundredths of a second behind America’s Brittany Brown, who took bronze. The race was won by America’s Gabby Thomas in a blistering 21.83, with Julien Alfred second in 22.08. British champion Asher-Smith said: “I’m proud of that performance, it was a really strong field and I was really proud to have held my own. “I was told to get out and keep going, I had fun doing that. You normally run mor…