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Reece Prescod says he needs to grow up and realise his potential after the 100m hopeful admitted he turned up overweight to the Olympic trials.
In a candid appraisal of his career, Britain’s most talented male sprinter revealed he was eight kilograms above his ideal weight when he struggled home in fifth at the national championships last month.
He only made it to Tokyo by virtue of a discretionary pick by the UK Athletics head coach Christian Malcolm, which came on the back of a turbulent year that saw him relocate to a US training base before a U-turn just two months later.
Reece Prescord has admitted he turned up to Olympic trials eight kilograms overweight
The concern within athletics circles is that the European silver medallist, 25, has been holding himself back — an assessment Prescod would seem to share based on a staggeringly frank interview with British reporters in Japan, where he is still