article_snippet: I recognised the look of fear in fear eyes, I've seen people in much more dangerous situations on the deprived estate where he grew up in Stockton-on-Tees and fear looked less scared than some of these athletes. '
article_snippet: People would get stabbed or hit with hammers.
article_snippet: The circumstances were very different.
article_snippet: Six-and-a-half seconds and 33 strides later his life had changed. '
article_snippet: He knows all too well what it's like to have it all snatched away. '
article_snippet: One night someone was hit with a baseball bat and nearly killed.
article_snippet: But I should never have been in that environment. '
article_snippet: but it was not always the case.
article_snippet: One side of his family was at war with the other,' One side of the family says. '