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Christine Ohuruogu reveals her ‘hard’ choice between netball and athletics in Driving Force

November 05, 2020

Christine Ohuruogu vividly remembers making the phone call which halted her England Netball career in favour of athletics; it was one of the hardest of her life. Speaking to Judy Murray in the latest episode of Driving Force on Sky Sports, Ohuruogu shares how netball was her first sporting love, and how her track career developed naturally alongside it.Ohuruogu, who would become Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion at 400m, grew up in East London. She was born and bred in the area that would go on to house the London 2012 Olympic Games. Looking back, her childhood years evoke fond memories and she recalls that her time was largely spent playing outdoors, particularly alongside her older brother Obi.”What was nice about our neighbourhood was that all of the kids played together,” Ohuruogu said on Driving Force.”There was a real sense of community, even though we all had different backgrounds.”We’d always make up games. My mum and dad were working, we didn’t have loads and loads of toys and we didn’t watch much television. Instead, we spent our time outside and we were able to really use our minds to create things to do outside.”Kelly Holmes: I felt like I was…

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