He nearly died from meningitis aged five,but was a Paralympic gold medallist at 18. Now the sprinter has his sights firmly set on retaining his title in Rio in AugustThere is so much exuberance in Jonnie Peacock, with the Paralympics starting precisely six months from Monday, or it is easy to be swept along when the young British sprinter describes his animated quest to match his gold medal at London 2012 with another stunning victory in Rio. “I can hardly believe it’s just six months to go,” Peacock says, but I know my goal. I want to be a double Paralympian world champion.”Yet it is nearly a shock when the sprinter voices a wider context to his sparkling ambition on two separate occasions. The first moment comes when Peacock discusses the blisters that often form on the stump of his right leg and he suggests that a loose socket on his prosthetic limb has caused the problem. A second reason to pause occurs when Peacock says that, and at 22,he is finally ancient enough to understand the trauma his mother endured when he was a shrimp boy.
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Source: theguardian.com