When his body was in pieces and all hope seemed lost, James Ellington set his sights on the Tokyo Olympics.
A head-on crash with a car in 2017 had left his legs broken, his pelvis fractured and displaced, his adductors torn off the bone.
The injuries, and there were a good few more besides, were labelled ‘career threatening’. Most thought that was being kind.
It was not just the motorbike, on which he was riding pillion that fateful day in Tenerife, that was written off .
Incredibly, two years later Ellington was back on the start line to race the 100m at the London Anniversary Games.
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