Fearon Goes For Bobsleigh Glory

IT TOOK the adjudication of a court in Geneva last month to all but officially confirm Joel Fearon as an Olympic bronze medallist, but the fourthquickest British sprinter of all time is hungry for more, writes Mark Woods.

A second could come next week when the 29-year-old from Coventry acts as the propeller-in-chief of the British bobsleigh team at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. That they missed out on enjoying the glory of standing on the podium four years ago in Sochi thanks to one of the many Russian dopers subsequently stripped of their medals gives them extra incentive to seize the opportunity to get there by right.

“What happened in Sochi is gone,” he declares. “I just have to see what happens this time. But it’s an exciting thing.”

However, the Birchfield Harrier, who ran the 100m in 9.96 seconds in Bedford just 17 months ago, still has unfinished business on the track. For a while, he was effectively retired from athletics, channelling all his energies into hurdling down the ice at speeds in excess of 150km an hour.