Micro-artists team up to create tiny Commonwealth Games tributes

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Both designs have each been fixed within the eye of a needle and include details such as the tiny “KJT” on the back of Johnson-Thompson’s vest and the 24 carat gold tip of her javelin. “Every single athlete taking part is a winner, by taking part, and I wanted to reflect that – and I just knew Katerina Johnson-Thompson was going to win gold,” he added. “I said to him ‘I’ll put something on the head of a pin, if you put something in the eye of a needle’, and we went from there.” Mr Short took two months engraving the nations on the pin, adding that one slip or “mistake”, meant he had to polish the head clean and start again. “You need patience, and you can’t get angry.” He added: “The reward is when people see it, they just say ‘oh my God’.” Dr Wigan is intending to exhibit his creations through microscopes, together with up to two dozen other pieces of his work, at Millennium Point in Birmingham, once the Games have finished.