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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

Keely Hodgkinson excited to end year of injuries with return to 800m

Keely Hodgkinson with other athletes in Poland for the Diamond League
Keely Hodgkinson with other athletes in Poland for the Diamond League.
Photograph: Jarek Praszkiewicz/EPA

Keely Hogkinson admits she is excited and relieved to be putting 375 days of tears, frustration and injuries behind her when she races for the first time since winning the Olympic 800m gold medal on Saturday.

The 23-year-old acknowledges that she does not have much time to get her sharpness back before next month’s World Championships in Tokyo. But she struck an optimistic note on the eve of the Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland, as she readied herself to race again.

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