Jim Al-Khalili

What's different about a sprint triathlon compared with what we normally regard as a full triathlon?

Then on the 21st of July 2020, you had that catastrophic accident while you were out training.

Tell me what happened that day.

Unsurprisingly, given the severity of the accident, your injuries were extensive.

What was the situation when you were admitted to hospital?

I gather the coma weeks were a very strange experience for you.

Such as?

I mean, was it in some sense your brain trying to make sense of the situation that you were determined to try and get through this?

You weren't ready to die.

Do you remember waking up from the coma state?

Right.

Right, right, right.

So quite strange.

Of course, the most challenging part was still to come, your long road to recovery.

What did that involve?

I also imagine for you that the mental and physical resilience you developed in the army and through competitive sport must have helped hugely.

And I gather your family set up a crowdfunder towards getting you a bionic arm.

And here we are today.

It's great.

I was just thinking that.