Continuing his unbeaten run in full-distance time trials this season – as opposed to briefer stage-race prologues – Wiggins finished 42sec ahead of the world champion Tony Martin of Germany, a healthy margin of almost a second per kilometre for the 44km distance, with the Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome giving Great Britain a second medal by taking bronze.
Moreover, no great differences were found in the full distance, minimum value, and maximum value statistics among the four domains.
In the end it was stopped two short of full distance.
Hierarchical clustering has an advantage of interactive analysis of the clustering dendrogram but needs to keep in memory the full distance matrix; several work-arounds have been proposed (Zhang et al., 1996) but none is accepted as a standard.
The 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic gold medallist then intends to run half of the London Marathon in April, ahead of going for the full distance in 2014.
In fact, the only driver to complete the full distance in both races is Tony Stewart, who did it last May.
Farah, who said he was "excited" to be running in the event on 21 April, plans to run the full distance in the 2014 London Marathon.
Fifteen months out from Rio the pair are confident they can again deliver over the full distance in the Olympics.
The 24-year-old Frenchman had managed to avoid the full distance in 37 previous grand slam matches and six Davis Cup hit-outs, but when finally pressed, passed the fourth round test 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-7 9-7 in three and a half hours.
Yoka, the reigning world champion, went the full distance in each of his fights, beating the outsider from the Virgin Islands Laurent Clayton Jr, Jordan's Hussein Iashaish 2-1 and was given the benefit of any doubt there was in the other semi-final against the determined Croatian Filip Hrgovic, who earlier stopped the very good Cuban Lenier Pero in the second round.
Meanwhile Farah, who ran half of April's London Marathon as part of his preparations to run the full distance in 2014, does not believe the nationality of British Athletics' next head coach is important.
