Beijing 2022 - From a back garden to the Olympics - how DIY helped Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas reach the Games
Every athlete has adapted to training during the coronavirus pandemic in different ways — but you can bet there is only one who built a bobsleigh push track in a County Durham back garden. That is exactly what Mica McNeill’s dad and brother did for her — and now she is preparing for the Winter Olympics with Montell Douglas in the two-woman bobsleigh. Ad/> With training already derailed by initial lockdowns at the start of the pandemic, McNeill took matters into her own hands and once the track was built, she invited the entire women’s squad to her home.


