Olympic spirit wins out in Road to Rio TV series

If there’s one thing we know about our Olympic hopefuls, it’s that we don’t know all that much.

With a few exceptions, they exist in shadows, emerging into the spotlight for one fortnight every four years, before slinking back to anonymity the moment that flame is extinguished.

It’s a pity, because their stories have the ability to draw us in and stir our cynical old souls. In an age where the Olympic movement has been polluted by professionalism and diseased by doping, we need a reminder that the Corinthian spirit can still be found, once we’re willing to look.