(Shutterstock)David Brown, the world’s fastest totally visually impaired sprinter, has been accompanied every step of the way by his guide Jerome Avery but the coronavirus outbreak has forced them apart for the first time in six years of training and racing together. “Running with a guide as opposed to not is night and day,” he said. Watching Brown and Avery run together at full speed in perfect synchrony is like poetry in motion. And while Brown deserves every plaudit that comes his way, Avery’s role is not to be ignored. Avery, now 42, says he switched to being a guide after realising that for all his speed he was not quite fast enough to be an Olympic medallist.

Source: The Telegraph April 06, 2020 23:37 UTC