Stephanie Inglis: Judo medals were great but being a mum is best
By any measure it was the toughest battle Stephanie Inglis had ever faced. The judo star who became the poster girl for Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014 woke to find herself in hospital.
'I heard beeping and remember waking up and seeing a bunch of machines,' said Inglis, now 36.
Her father Robert, a judo coach and former Scottish and British internationalist, clasped her hand and offered reassurance before summoning help.
Little could have prepared the Inverness-born athlete, who won silver in Glasgow, for what a doctor had to say after a motorbike accident in Vietnam.
'He told me that I had been involved in a motorcycle accident and that I had hit my head off the ground so hard that
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