in case you're not already feeling suitably inspired, meet beth dobbin.er unable to walk, talk or even recognise her own dad. but earlier this month the 200m sprinter was crowned british champion with a championship record time. the 24—year—old has been talking to bbc sport about how athletics has saved her. slowly the light started to go out and everything just started to get dark andi and everything just started to get dark and i remember linking i'm going to die almostjust let it happen and just still to this day i can pick your my friends face and shejust can pick your my friends face and she just looked terrified. i remember looking at my dad thinking i don't know who he is, i woke up with no clue what was going on. i spent maybe a week in hospital not being able to walk properly. athletics had to take a back seat. i would get confused about different things and people did not get that i just couldn't speak. better stop trying to get back and coming right through the middle. —— beth dobbin. and she wins it! back to the house of commons and let's list

as a teenager, beth dobbin suffered an epileptic seizure, so severe it left her unable to walk, talk the light started to go out and everything started to get dark and everything started to get dark andi and everything started to get dark and i remember thinking and everything started to get dark and i rememberthinking i‘m going and everything started to get dark and i remember thinking i‘m going to die. almost let it happen, i couldn‘t stop it from happening and to this day i can picture my friend‘s face and she looked terrified. athletics is the only timei terrified. athletics is the only time i feel i don‘t worry. i‘m not saying there‘s never been a time when i have been training and sports don‘t pop into my head but i can count it on two hands, and today for two years count it on two hands, and today for two yea rs it count it on two hands, and today for two years it was constant when i was in training, training was my release and there were no worrying thoughts so and there were no worrying thoughts soi and there were no worrying thoughts so i think athletics has only helped mak