Former sprinter Darren Campbell recovering after bleed on brain
Monday 14 May 2018 22:26, UK
British former Olympic champion Darren Campbell is recovering in hospital after suffering a bleed in the brain.
The 44-year-old had to be resuscitated when he was taken to hospital on May 8 after suffering a seizure at home.
Campbell, who used to present Sky's Gamechangers and was a Sky Sports Scholar mentor, revealed that he felt lucky to come through a situation that left him needing a ventilator to breathe.
"I nearly died," he told the BBC. "You have to give thanks. That is how close it was.
"When they first told me I was on a ventilator, I didn't believe them. I've got other people filling in blanks. If you can't breathe by yourself, you are not in a good place."
It is understood that Campbell, 4x100m relay gold medallist at the 2004 Olympics, is hoping to leave hospital on Tuesday.
"It's only when I see the fear in my kids' eyes that you realise," added Campbell who also won 200m silver at the 2000 Olympics as well as three World Championship medals.
"The doctors have said if I wasn't so fit, I wouldn't be here. I was always going to fight. As long as the doctors were fighting, I'd fight."
