Rio Olympic diary with pole vaulter and Sky Scholar Holly Bradshaw
By Mark Ashenden
Last Updated: 17/09/16 4:35pm
Get up close with Holly Bradshaw as GB's top pole vaulter gives a personal insight to life as an Olympian in Rio.
It has been a crazy and emotional journey for the 24 year-old from Preston, now based in Cardiff, who earns her corn by leaping over bars the height of double decker buses.
Bradshaw has been supported by the Sky Academy Sports Scholarship scheme since the London 2012 Games and after a series of injuries, making the Olympics was an unrealistic dream a year ago.
But being as gritty as she is supremely talented, Bradshaw fought back to fitness and not only eased through qualifying in Rio, made the final and finished fifth.
The Brit was only a whisker away from getting on the podium.
But the future is bright for the seven-time British champion and soon after arriving home from Brazil she showed her world-class pedigree by winning on the prestigious Diamond League stage in Zurich.
Click on the video above to see Holly's personal diary from Rio....
