Solo un anno in meno di Andrew Howe e molto meno talento, sembrava, poi molti titoli in più (Olimpico, Mondiale, Europeo, Commonwealth in contemporanea), noto ai runner per come si è inserito nella galoppata vincente di Mo Farah a Londra 2012 …
“At times I am in so much pain I can’t even sit on the floor and play with my two kids. I still feel I am fast. I still feel as if I am super strong. But whenever I try to sprint or jump I have to take three days off because I am limping so much. In the end it wears you down.”
“I keep asking myself, what’s more important to me – trying to be a mediocre athlete holding on to past glories or moving on? I’ll be 32 later this year. I don’t want to be the old man on the team who is making up the numbers. I want people to remember me for the good times.”
“I have had four surgeries on my right ankle and one on my left. Then there was the groin reconstruction, which is as painful as it sounds, as well as having my stomach wall knitted back together. I’ve had my foot opened up, too. And earlier in my career I had all sorts of hamstring problems as well.”
“As an athlete you often have pain, whether it’s training niggles or serious injuries, but with my ankle it is like having a dull toothache all the time. I just don’t want to be in pain every single day of my life, which is how things currently are.”
Rimbalzato in parte da Queen Atletica, godibile in originale da The Guardian per fotografare Greg Rutherford in 8’000 battute potabili.
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