On the face of it, two hamstring injuries this year alone don't appear to be the best preparation for any attempt to become a World champion. But - and this is a very big but - these setbacks may just end up making Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson a more dangerous, intimidating opponent.

Last summer at the Paris Olympics, so spectacular was Hodgkinson's run to gold that it was not just a British highlight, but one which was exalted far and wide. She was that good.

The women's 800m field has some talent in it and, while up to Paris 2024 she was part of the elite group, by the end of the Olympics she was out on her own. She had gone to another level where, injury aside, the world was quite literally her oyster.

She had commentators open-mouthed, and one of Team GB's greatest middle-

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