Colin Griffin: Walking the walk

Colin Griffin has no regrets about taking a step back from his athletics career last month. But now he hopes the sport can take a giant leap forward in how it deals with elite competitors.

On the way in to meet you, he got a call from a friend. They talk most days, like you may do with your best friend, only yours isn’t a world champion. Colin Griffin’s is.

For more than a decade now Rob Heffernan has been a contemporary, something of a rival but mostly a friend. When either of them was struggling, the other was there to hear and help the other out.