James Ellington, now 38, represented Great Britain at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.
A former Team GB sprinter who suffered life-changing injuries seven years ago in a motorbike crash in Tenerife described the "crazy rollercoaster" of his path to recovery.He was the passenger on a motorbike involved in a collision with a car in 2017 and suffered multiple broken bonesas well as fractures to his eye socket, pelvis and ankle.
Speaking to ITV News London he said: "This is closure. It's been seven years now since I had my accident. "So to finally have some closure in the case it brings relief and it allows me to move on and continue with the rest of my life." He suffered a broken leg, broken ankle and broken pelvis as well as multiple other injuries and flew back to England after five days in intensive care.
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