Sportshour

Training to take part in the Olympics is an unforgiving business - years of hard work easily undone by injury, loss of form or even confidence. But for American middle distance runner Sarah Brown, her road to Rio took something of a more pronounced bump. A surprise pregnancy! In March, just five months before Rio 2016, Sarah gave birth, having continued to train throughout her pregnancy. Her goal is to make it to the Olympics by qualifying at the US trials in July.Hooray for Houry: Meet Houry Gebeshian. By day she delivers babies, by night she trains herself for the Rio Olympics! Houry, who in August will be Armenia’s first female Olympic Gymnast, takes us through what by anyone’s standards is a busy day!The Kallur Comeback: On the face of it there was nothing too remarkable about Sweden’s Susanna Kallur 5th place finish in 100m hurdles at the Diamond League in Stockholm this week… Even so she completed a lap of honour after the race, accompanied by her three-year-old daughter. However considering this was he