Dopers won’t deter me from competing, insists Ciara Everard

This should be about Ciara Everard’s hopes for the European Indoor Championships in Prague this week.

About how she hasn’t ran as fast as she did two years ago in the approach to the same event in Gothenburg where she broke through on the international stage and made a final, but still feels pretty good.

And it would take another article entirely to do justice to an accident-prone nature that has seen her absorb the effects of two bad bike crashes and their resultant injuries and, more recently, fall into a frozen lake in Ghent whilst warming-up for a race.