THE KEELY WILD SHOW

From meeting Kim K to breaking indoor world record, Queen of track Hodgkinson is tearing it up... again

- BY ANDY DUNN

THE afterglow of Olympic success can last for a while - but when it is gone, getting back to hard work, away from the spotlight, can be tough.

And for Keely Hodgkinson, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2024 and poster athlete of the Paris Games, it was especially tough.

But it was not her post-euphoria mentality that troubled Hodgkinson, it was her physicality - two torn hamstrings ruining most of her plans for 2025.

She managed to make it to the start line of the World Championships in Tokyo, finishing a creditable third behind Lilian Odira and Georgia Hunter Bell, but the year was definitely not what she had in mind.

At times, Hodgkinson must surely have wondered if that glorious summer's night in the Stade de France in the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis was as good as it would get.