Bruised Bowie proves grandma right, now shoots for double

Athletics - World Athletics Championships - Women's 100 Metres Final - London Stadium, London, Britain – August 6, 2017. Tori Bowie of the U.S. celebrates winning the final. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - In 2012, Tori Bowie sat at home in Sand Hill, Mississippi, when the Olympics were being held in London and watched the world's greatest sporting event race by without her.

As a 21-year-old long jumper who had missed the U.S trials with injury, she gazed at the 200 metres final on television that night and, in a Eureka moment, was moved to suggest to her grandmother: "I really think I can beat those ladies".