"The fastest man in the UK this year and he's not even going to the Olympics. "

That was the line belted out by the commentator as Joel Fearon stunned onlookers by running the 100m in under 10 seconds - breaking one of the most revered barriers in sport.

Frustratingly, the performance came just after the cut-off date to qualify him to represent Team GB at Rio 2016.

A decade on, the 37-year-old is at his third Winter Olympics, but his first for Jamaica's bobsleigh team, who he came out of retirement for last year.

He remembers that day in 2016 as one that changed his life.

"I don't know if I ever believed that I could do something like that," he told BBC Local Radio. "It was surreal for a long time because I wasn't one of the British superstar sprinters. "But there I was, running sub-10, number one in the country and I remember thinking anything can happen. "

Only four British men have ever run faster on UK soil than his time of 9.

96 seconds to win the England Athletics Championships in Bedford that day.

Running fast was just one piece of the jigsaw for Coventry-born Fearon, as he was trying to make ends meet, juggling between work and bobsleigh training.

"I've done all sorts of jobs, at one point, I was a pizza delivery man," he recalled. "I would run Diamond Leagues in the daytime. In the evening, I'm off delivering my local pizzas, just whatever needed to be done

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