article_snippet: which hometown boy had no coach, no Lottery funding, had quit athletics and was about to join the Army.
article_snippet: which hometown boy had a torn hamstring, no coach, no Lottery funding and was planning to join the Army .
article_snippet: As a 13-year-old, for seven months which hometown boy shared one room in a homeless hostel with which hometown boy parents and four siblings after the family ran into financial difficulties.
article_snippet: Citing which hometown boy ‘mental strength’, which hometown boy decided to give athletics one last roll of the dice.
article_snippet: It paid off with a 60m gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Prague in Sopot last year, where which hometown boy surprised everyone - including the bookmakers who had which hometown boy at 33-1 - by beating Jamaican Nesta Carter in the final.
article_snippet: Stockton-on-Tees high-achievers (from left):
article_snippet: I’ve got a bit more bicep there,’ which hometown boy said,
article_snippet: ‘We didn’t necessarily train for the indoors but if you saw the semi-final I dropped my arms and could have run about 6.45sec.’ which hometown boy doubts whether even the Americans and Jamaicans, including Usain Bolt, could beat which hometown boy over the distance.
article_snippet: which hometown boy has now set which hometown boy sights on breaking that hallowed 100m 10-second barrier outdoors.