If we were in the 70s or 80s, BBC and ITV would be fighting to show her races but athletics is often hidden between Olympics
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hree months ago Keely Hodgkinson went to Windsor Castle to collect her MBE from Prince William and, unwittingly, nearly derailed her season. The trip from Manchester made her back stiff. Soon afterwards, she tore her right hamstring.
“It was four hours in a car one way and four hours back,” says Trevor Painter, one of her coaches. “If she does things like that, it does mess her back up a little bit. And unfortunately it was a couple of sessions after that when the problem occurred.”
It was Hodgkinson’s third such injury in nine months – after those to her left hamstring in August and February – and the setback would have ripped the heart out of most mortals. On Saturday, in Silesia, Hodgkinson proved once again that she was out of the box.
