00:00Derek, obviously, you probably had to discuss it, you know, so much over your life, but
00:07the injury in 1992, the incredible footage, obviously doing my research, I had to watch
00:12it and, you know, it's quite hard to keep a dry eye, I will have to say that, but, you
00:17know, how do you sort of feel about it now when you look back on that moment?
00:22I mean, it's different. Back then, it was annoyance, upsetting, anger, because I failed
00:31in what I set out to do. I believed I was good enough to win a medal, could have won
00:35a medal, and I didn't. So in my eyes, back then, I failed. When I look at it now, 30
00:40plus years later, I kind of see it slightly different. Rather than annoyance, it's frustration,
00:47because I still believe to this day I could have won a medal. But I can also see what
00:51a lot of people saw in it, just because I'm now a father, I'm a parent, four kids, five
00:58grandkids as well, but, you know, so I can see it from a different set of eyes, if you
01:04like. So I begin to understand what people saw in it and how they saw it as a slightly
01:09different incident than I did, if you like. What happened was after the athletic side
01:15of things, seven operations and told that was it, your career is over, you're never
01:18going to compete for your country again, just under three years later, playing basketball
01:22for England and sending that same surgeon a photograph saying, told you so. And I think
01:27for me, it's just understanding why you do sport and what you get out of it.
01:33Yeah, and, you know, just on Team GB, it's quite special that we had, obviously, London
01:382012, you felt that that Olympics sort of brought the nation so close together. And
01:42then maybe half or, you know, a number of the Olympians now at the Games would have
01:48probably been watching London 2012, you know, looking up to their idols. How sort of special
01:52is that to say?
01:53Yeah, that's cool. I mean, I went through the same thing. So 1984 was the first Olympics
01:58when I really sat and watched it and thought I could actually be there. And then four years
02:05later, there I was at the Olympic Games competing against some of the people I was watching
02:09four years prior. So I know exactly what a lot of these athletes would have been going
02:13through. And most Olympians will have an Olympic Games that inspired them to want to
02:19compete at the Olympics, you know, or whatever the situation is great, because I saw a bit
02:25of an interview and a montage of Tom Daley when he was in 2008. And he could have only
02:30been 13. And he was talking about his, you know, his Olympic hopes and dreams. And he
02:38turned around and said, you never know, I could still be competing in 2024. Like that
02:43was some time in the distant future. And here he is in 2024, winning a silver medal. So
02:50even Olympians, you know, aspire to be competing in Olympics further down the road. So yeah,
02:56it's brilliant. Absolutely fantastic.
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