That man, Derek Redmond, had a career plagued by injury up to that point – and saw the 1992 Olympics as a great chance to put it right on the very highest stage, but it wasn’t to be.

Shortly after he had started the race in the semi-final in Barcelona, Derek felt a snap in the back of his right leg, as his hamstring had torn and left him unable to walk. Derek got up and attempted to finish the race, before his father, Jim, broke past security to help his son over the finish line.

Derek joined Clive Holland on the Clive Holland Show on Fix Radio to talk us through this iconic moment of Olympic history as Clive previewed the summer of sport ahead. He started out by asking Derek how tough that moment was, and how much it meant to be cheered on by the crowd despite finishing last…

“I mean, it was very tough. Obviously, I think you could see that etched on my face. I'd had a few injury problems leading up to that. I'd won the world championship a year before, so I really thought things were finally turning around with all the injuries that I suffered.”

“I won the first two rounds got to the semifinal, and then obviously my hamstring went. So that was really, really tough; emotionally, physically, spiritually - it was a real suffering.”

“In regard to the crowd, I'm going to be 100% honest with you - I didn't hear them. It sounds of horrible to say, but they were the last thing on my mind.”

“I needed to finish that race for me. And you could argue it was pretty much a selfish act, because it was for me. It wasn't for queen and country, it wasn’t for Team GB at that point, I just had to finish that race for me, because I knew I could live the rest of my life knowing that I got knocked out in the semi-final, as opposed to not finishing and being beaten by the Olympic Games again, because of my first Olympic games.”

“Four years prior to that, I picked up an injury and I couldn't even run in the first round of the Olympic Games. I didn't want that to happen again. So it was only after seeing footage of it, that I realized that the crowd were all noisy, and that was quite humbling.”

He did go on to say about the chances he thinks that Team GB have at the postponed games this summer in Tokyo – and how much of an effect that will have on the team going in to it…

“My expectations are that Team GB will have taken in their stride the fact that the games were postponed for a year. It’s the same for everybody. We've got some absolutely fantastic Olympic ambassadors that will performing at their best."

"These guys and girls will know that it's a bit different. But it's business as usual, they’ve still got to go out and deliver, they’ve still got to go out and do the business."

"We are a nation that has great tradition over the last few years at Olympic Games, and there's no reason why that can't continue. This is just business as usual. So regardless of the circumstances that these guys and girls performing in, they’ve just got to go out there and perform."

"It's a big event. But nevertheless, it is just another event and they’ve just got to do what they've done in all of their other competitions and championships. And hopefully we'll come home with a sack full of medals!”

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