Kye Whyte is reeling off the list of bones he has broken from racing his BMX bike. 'Two shoulders, two collarbones, a couple of fingers, my hand twice, my wrist twice, my elbow and toes,' says the Olympic silver medallist. 'Oh, and my jaw as well.'
That last injury he mentions was actually the most serious of them all, following a horror crash in his first race on the British talent squad at the age of 13.
'I probably could have died,' admits Whyte, sitting with Mail Sport in the kit room by the BMX track at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester.