Molly Caudery is hoping for third time lucky. The European and Commonwealth Games medallist’s last two major championships have ended in heartbreak. She entered the Paris Olympics as the hot favourite, having recently broken the British pole vault record and as the reigning indoor world champion, but failed to make the final.
Last year’s World Championships in Tokyo was supposed to be her redemption tour. Instead, a freak injury in the warm-up meant she had to be taken off the track in a wheelchair, in floods of tears. She sustained bone bruising and ruptured ligaments, including her anterior talo-fibular ligament (ATFL), and was told her ankle would be unstable for the rest of her life.
