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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andy Baber

‘I’m still one of the fastest in the world’: Lina Nielsen opens up on battle with multiple sclerosis

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Nothing was going to stop Lina Nielsen from running in front of a home crowd again, not even the lingering after-effects of a multiple sclerosis flare-up – and that’s the point.

The 400m hurdler took to the start line at the Commonwealth Games for the first time since revealing she had been diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS aged 17.

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