'A lot of people wouldn’t have been disqualified for what I did. That's just how it rolls'

SHARLENE MAWDSLEY HAS been forced to press the reset button a few times recently in her athletics career.

“I kind of thought ‘maybe’,” she says when asked whether she suspected there could be trouble ahead after finishing the race. But there wasn’t much time to feel the sting of it. Her 4x400m relay team needed her back on the track. She was advised to leave off a training session with the relay team and take some time to process the disappointment, but she didn’t want to delay. There was some anxiety to face with switching on again, but ultimately, going back to the place where she had suffered the hurt would be the tonic she needed most. “When I walked onto the track, I was like, ‘oh shit’. I was really nervous….

“Glasgow really showed that my training really has come on and I’m able to produce back-to-back runs when it really matters. I know now that I’m in good shape and that really helps me drive on for the next few weeks.” The World Relay Championships in the Bahamas are coming up in May, followed by the European Championships in June. That schedule helps athletes avoid fixating on Paris.

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