TWO years after being crushed in a motorcycle accident, British 800m champion Elliot Giles will don his first GB senior vest in Amsterdam.
Elliot Giles: British 800m champion has had a rough ride with injury
MARK SHEARMAN
The 22-year-old Birchfield Harrier was an emotional wreck in the immediate aftermath of winning his first senior national title, beating Jamie Webb and Michael Rimmer in a time of 1:48.00, as he reflected on a journey which has been fraught with physical and emotional turmoil.
The gravity of Giles’ situation is evident in his Power of 10 record which shows a three-year absence of competition, stretching from January 2012 through to May 2015, but his return to form in 2016 brought seven wins in eight races through June, including a personal best of 1:47.21, and a first senior call-up to the European Championship squad this week.
“I remember waking up the following day just in pain,” Giles told AW, recalling the accident which happened in Birmingham city centre in July 2014. The MRI scan detected no broken bones, but Giles was bed-ridden for three weeks with a severe haematoma over his back, brain damage, badly damaged posterior cruciate ligament, torn gluteal and heavily bruised lower back.
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