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Shona Mc Callin The GB hockey star on her long battle with concussion

Olympic hockey gold medallist Shona Mc Callin was unluckier than most. McCallin was playing for Great Britain in Argentina last year when an innocuous shoulder to the side of her head left her dazed. “It got me in the wrong place, with a rotational aspect and I wasn’t prepared for it,” McCallin tells The Independent. “It was just an unlucky combination of all of those things.”

GB’s medical staff identified the signs and removed her from the action, and over the coming days Mc Callin began to recover her senses. But on the flight back to the UK her symptoms reappeared, and worsened once she was home.

Mc Callin’s was a story of trial and error: one day she would try a treatment and see how she felt, how her body and brain reacted. Some things eased her symptoms, some made them worse, and so the result was not so much a steady climb back to health as a frustrating roller coaster ride.   안전토토사이트

Gradually Mc Callin made progress two steps forward, one step back  and eventually she not only made a full recovery but was back playing hockey, 17 months after that trip to Argentina. Earlier this month she was part of the GB team which qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer, where they will go to defend their title. It was the culmination of a journey Mc Callin wished she’d never had to take, but which has made her appreciate the game in a whole new light.

Great Britain will play six games in Hiroshima during the tour, including two Test matches against Japan, as part of their preparations for next year's Tokyo Olympics.