Relaxed approach paying off for Gillick

A LITTLE under a year ago, David Gillick’s world was caving in around him. His Olympic 400m campaign came and went in 45.83 seconds as he failed to progress beyond the first round in the Bird’s Nest Stadium.

He cut a desolate figure as he left the track that August day as he reassessed how things could have gone so drastically wrong on the world’s biggest stage.

Fast forward now to 2009 and Gillick’s sensational 400m runs in Madrid (44.77) and Rome (44.82) has him front and centre in the countdown to the world championship in Berlin later this month.