Joel Fearon: Pyeongchang 2018 medal is my main goal

Joel Fearon says he has no desire to switch his focus away from the bobsleigh and his plans of bringing home a medal from the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in 2018 despite having realised his dream to become the seventh British sprinter to ever run a sub-10-second 100m.

Fearon was the star attraction at the England Athletics Championships in Bedford on Saturday as he ran a lifetime best of 9.96 (2.0m/sec) to win gold, having won his heat and semi-final earlier in the day in times of 10.02 and 10.10 respectively.

The 27-year-old Birchfield Harrier has combined sprinting with bobsleigh for the past five years, picking up a silver medal in the four-man event at the European Championships in 2014 before placing fifth at the Sochi Games – behind two Russian quartets in which some members are reported to have been implicated in the doping scandal.

Having started his season on the track with a couple of low-key 10.3-10.4 runs in Newham back in May …

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