Sprinter Dina Asher-Smith is over her injuries and looking to even better things after her silver medal in the world championshipsOver the space of 24 hours last week Dina Asher-Smith’s nightmare season morphed into a glorious dream. For much of the spring Asher-Smith was on crutches, having broken the navicular bone in her right foot, and she started running only in June. But her time of 22.22sec in that 200m final – her third fastest ever – was inevitably tinged with what-might-have-beens. “We’re constantly having to flip-flop back and forth between team-mates and rivals but that’s part and parcel of the job,” says Asher-Smith. Your body is still getting used to having a new-shaped foot and a foot that functions differently to how it used to.

Source: The Guardian August 19, 2017 09:00 UTC