Injury destroyed the British sprinter’s Olympic dreams in Tokyo but she is looking forward and ready to defend her world 200m title
“Any time someone mentioned it, I just burst into tears,” says Dina Asher-Smith, with a rawness that stings and lingers. “It was really weird. It was kind of uncontrollable.”
Everyone thinks they know the story of Asher-Smith’s Tokyo Olympics a year ago. How she arrived in Japan as a Team GB poster girl, only to have her dreams of gold eviscerated by a hamstring injury far more serious than she had let on. But on the eve of the world championships in Eugene, Britain’s greatest sprinter bravely reveals that was only the half of it.
