Imogen Cairns comeback – 2 Golds

Here’s a good news story out of Delhi:

IMOGEN Cairns wrote off her chances of a second gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the same way some doctors once wrote off her gymnastics career. They were wrong and so was she. …

… with two golds and a silver, added to her two medals from Melbourne, moving her level with Annika Reeder as Britain’s most successful women’s Commonwealth Games gymnast of all-time. …

morethanthegames.co.uk – COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Cairns proves the power of perseverance

England’s Imogen Cairns (C) holds her gold medal along with silver medallist Jennifer Khwela (L) of South Africa and Canada’s Gabby May with bronze for the women’s gymnastics vault at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi …

England's Imogen Cairns (C) holds her gold medal along with silver medallist Jennifer Khwela (L) of South Africa and Canada's Gabby May with bronze for the women's gymnastics vault at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi October 7 ,2010.  REUTERS/Andy Clark (INDIA - Tags: SPORT GYMNASTICS)

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She was on crutches a year ago after a series of leg operations.

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