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Colin Jackson - Resilience

Legends of Welsh Sport Series 4

Colin Jackson is Wales鈥檚 most successful male track athlete - world champion and record holder, this is the untold story of how he came back from failure to become world number one.

We know Colin Jackson as the voice of the Olympics, star of Strictly and a true national treasure. What we forget is that as a 110m hurdler, he is a true sporting legend.聽

This film tells the story of Jackson鈥檚 phenomenal rise from a council estate in Cardiff to world number one, and how his greatest disappointment聽fuelled an unstoppable rise to an historic run at the World Championships in Stuttgart.

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29 minutes

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Sun 19 Jan 2025 17:05
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Credits

Director Eric Haynes
Producer Eric Haynes
Executive Producer Gwenllian Hughes
Editor Paul Owen
Production Company Kailash Films

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