The glamour, the glory, the medals - David Gillick had it all, but his new book, The Race, lifts the lid on what life was really like both on and off the track.
Relentless pressure, lonely hotel rooms, and the psychological fallout when your identity is tied to how fast you can run 400 metres.
He talks to Hazel Nolan about how when the spikes came off, reality bit, and hard.
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