TWELVE MILES from Loughborough at Leicester City’s training ground, Kasper Schmeichel will sigh when the regular, predictable questions are asked about his goalkeeping father Peter.
James Dasalou is a bit like that with injuries. He was a late starter and was 18 when he became serious. Since then, his career has been interrupted by injury as regularly as Schmeichel has said, “I don’t compare myself to my dad.”
In July 2013 Dasaolu ran that blistering 9.91 for 100m, making him the second fastest Brit of all time, and it looked like take-off time. He backed that up with a 9.97 to get into his first world final and the following year ran 6.47 for 60m in the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. But then the thigh muscle went.
Sub-10: James Dasaolu led James Ellington and CJ Ujah to windassisted sub-10 second times at the recent British Championships
Dasaolu was out of the World Indoors that year, when he looked hot for gold, and rested up, returning to claim his first major title, at the European Championships in Zurich.
There had been injuries in 2011 and before. Dasaolu seemed as fragile as china. Some doubted his body would ever be strong enough for the heats and pressure of a final at a big championships.
“I think I ran once in 2011,” he says. “One race that whole year.”
It was 2012 when the pain, both mental and physical, stopped. Dasaolu came under the wing of Steve Fudge and a programme was devised for him. Dasaolu became a five-day athlete, taking time off and resting.
“When this worked, I just couldn’t believe that I’d spent three or four years more on the sidelines because of injury,” he says.
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