I nearly lost my finger in a freak accident but now I’m an influencer hoping to win gold at Paris 2024 Olympics

Molly Caudery will be jumping for joy at the Olympics if she can carry her red-hot pole vaulting form into Paris

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She is a huge hit away from the track too, having built up a following of more than 205,000 Instagram fans, thanks partly to the stunning pictures she shares

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But it could have been very different after a shocking injury in her home gym in 2021 almost ended her pole vault career before it took off the ground

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Molly said: 'I was doing snatching and, as I brought the bar down, my finger caught between where you rack it and the bar. It was 90 per cent off. It was holding on by the skin on the side'

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