Bryan Keane embraces second chance after ‘kiss with a car’

Bryan Keane has an unusually playful way of describing being hit by a car, for a man whose Olympic dream was quite literally smashed to bits by a shattered kneecap.

“A kiss with a car” is how he recalls a close encounter with a vehicle while preparing for Rio.

It is a revealing example of the attitude that helped Keane recover from that injury, picked up after he was hit by a vehicle while on his bike two years out from London, which had scuppered his hopes of making it to the 2012 Games.