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‘Accidental’ Olympian watched Paris opening ceremony at home before winning two medals
The Independent
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8/16/2024
Unexpected Olympian wins two bronze medals after watching Paris opening ceremony at homeSource: Good Morning Britain
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It's absolutely, I mean it's such a brilliant story isn't it?
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Although I have to say you feel sorry for the poor person who pulled out because it's all,
00:06
it is that kind of fate isn't it? Yeah. That got you there. Tell us what happened,
00:10
so you're just at home, you must have been feeling a bit sad that you weren't there presumably.
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Yeah definitely, so I think I ran a big PB the week before in London Diamond League,
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I went to fourth fastest in Europe for the year, behind three really good guys, two of them British,
00:25
and yeah 40 full-time in the British all-time list. So I was definitely sitting there watching
00:30
every ceremony going down, I wish I was there. Why weren't you selected though then if you were
00:34
that, you know if you'd been breaking records? Yeah so in January I tore my hamstring,
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which wasn't ideal obviously going into the Olympic year, I had a lot of aspiration to make
00:44
a lot of champs, so I missed the whole indoor season, missed opportunities to back up my
00:49
British title I won last year, so it was really disappointing and then it took a whole lot longer
00:53
to get back than we thought. So you sat there? Yeah, so you just watched the opening ceremony
00:58
and it's literally the following day wasn't it? Yeah. So it was your mobile phone rings,
01:02
where are you? That must be one heck of a moment, it's like a Hollywood moment really,
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you know what I mean? So where were you when your mobile phone rang? Yeah so I was training at my
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track on Saturday morning, just doing some block sessions, something like that, just having a bit
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of fun, and then we heard the news of the athlete pulling out, I still didn't know, I got picked,
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and then about 45 minutes later I got a call from the selector, Martin Rooney going,
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what are you doing for the next couple of weeks? He was like, I heard you're doing it at Angel
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Meters, can you not do that please, I'd rather you be running the 4x4. He must have loved making
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that phone call to you. Yeah definitely, so that was a really good moment I think, I put the phone
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down, I screamed out, I'm an Olympian! The whole training group was jumping up and down with
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excitement, my coach. Don't jump too hard, I've got to protect myself now.
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