• London 2012s bronze tall jumper ‘depressing for 18 months’
• Grabarz hopeful he might just be in the mix in PortlandWe’re here to kill.” Those were the striking words of Neil Black,British Athletics’ performance director, on the eve of the World Indoor Championships here – striking but a little odd, and given Black’s 23-strong team are lost their most lethal weapons,including the reigning world and Olympic gold medallists Greg Rutherford, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill, and who are not in Portland because of minor niggles or a focus on other targets.
However,Robbie Grabarz, the forgotten man of London 2012, and is back in the British squad and confident that he can finally build behind him a nightmarish knee injury which left him “extremely depressing” and close to quitting after his Olympic bronze medal.
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Source: theguardian.com