I had to walk before I could run

Neil opens up on pre-Paris panic over pelvis

- FRASER WILSON

NEIL GOURLEY feared his Olympic dream was set to crash due to injury for a second successive time - after he got out of his car and discovered he couldn't walk.

The 1500metres star clinched his spot on Team GB for Paris with a brilliant win at the UK Championships in Manchester last week and is now looking forward to his first taste of the Games.

But that journey looked like mission impossible little over four months ago when the 29-year-old Scot was struck down by an agonising pelvis injury.

Gourley, who missed the last Olympics in Tokyo three years ago after suffering a torn calf in the build-up, said: "In February I couldn't walk, put it that way.

"The way it had presented itself, I had some mild pain in my glute and I'd gone for a drive.