The British 1500m Champion Sarah Calvert, from West Lothian , has revealed that she wasn’t sure if she would ever run again following an operation as a teenager for a serious back condition.

The 24-year-old Livingston AC athlete has scoliosis – a condition where the spine curves abnormally to the side - and underwent surgery to have metal rods installed in her back in an effort to alleviate the condition, reports the West Lothian Courier.

Sarah is now Women’s British Champion at 1500m, after an incredible victory in Birmingham where she beat Laura Muir into second place by five-hundredths of a second.

It’s now been revealed that University of Edinburgh student didn’t run or exercise for a year in her mid-teens following the surgery.

At one stage in 2015, the former Linlithgow Aca

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