07/30/2014 10:14
A "For Sale" sign stands outside the Wiltshire home of Dai Greene. It typifies how sport can be cruel.
However, then the harms crept in. First his knee went and he had to get operation in the winter leading to the Olympics. He still managed good results but, come London, Greene didn't possess the stamina to include the one title he needed to complete the set.
Worse was to follow when he underwent s nike blazer mid grey mens.rgery and suffered a hernia injury the following winter. The operation was effectively a calamity, a litany of issues following in the ensuing year.
"It's intended to be a straightforward procedure, a quick fix," cheap nike blazers for men.e explains. "Two weeks later you are back running, in six weeks it is full training. There is a weightlifter who competed at the Olympics three weeks after the procedure, there are men playing two weeks after being operated on."
Greene returned to training but the problem never went away so he'd further surgery in October. That did not rectify the problem so in December Greene travelled to Germany and, it'd seem, final procedure.
"That was to repair the hernia and remove the mesh put in from the first operation, which is efficiently attached to the muscle so it doesn't split again," he says. "That mesh had frayed and hindered with the nerves, and was causing a lot of pain."
In March of the year, Greene was finally back running, although the problems weren't gone. Arriving at a training camp Greene complained of pains in his legs, and was dis nike blazers mid men.overed to have blood clots. He admits there was a growing awareness of feeling as it seemed every time he got up he got knocked down again by another medical issue cursed.
"My mum always says it is character building but it is long past that now," he says. "It is merely been an incredibly stressful time. It is like someone twisting the knife and sticking it in. My mum was left thinking, 'When will it all end?'"
Greene has decided to allow the issue of the first operation that was botched lie rather than pursue it farther. As he says, "It's not likely to make me feel any better. Occasionally you have successes in surgery and occasionally not."
But no wins and hence a reduction in prize-money as well as sponsors have been meant by no running. His Nike contract has numerous clauses according to performance, while his present deal is drawing to a close. It has led him to set his house up for sale.
"There's massive consequences on my life," he adds. "I can not afford to stay in that house now. It is frustrating as everything was going well, and it wasn't enormous sums of cash but sometimes not have to be realistic and look ahead. I need to be realistic and look six or seven months ahead before I get in a difficult situation."
Greene arrived on Friday in Glasgow, attending the second night of the swimming as a welcome. Prior to that, he's been an honorary member based at their holding camp with his coach, Malcolm Arnold.
The fact the 28-year-old will even be on the start line for the heats of the 400m hurdles on Wednesday - true not in the shape he'd like to be - is a feel-good story for a Wales Commonwealth Games team bedevilled by failed drugs tests and sportsmen pulling out with harm.
A few months ago Greene considered he'd no chance of being at the Games and he understands he could have turned his back completely but that is not his modus operandi. "I am not planning to sit at home and watch folks run," he says. "This is exactly what I know.
As a consequence of his aforementioned issues, there aren't any real aspirations. Such is the competitive character of the Commonwealth field in the 400m hurdles, with powerful entries from South Africa and Jamaica in particular, just making the final would be an accomplishment. If anything, the European Championships in Zurich next month, if his body holds is a more realistic medal objective.
He is adamant that whatever occurs in Glasgow and Zurich he will get back to the top of an occasion he is using the example of Christine Ohuruogu to do this, and once ruled.
"Greene look at her and think I can do exactly the same. I need to keep working. Things will get easier." It is stated with anticipation and hope.
