‘Please take this thing seriously’
Feb 25, 2021
4 minutes
Photos Daniel Gould
David Bradford
Having spent 20 years caring for the critically unwell, Dr Laurence Gant now specialises in looking after the obscenely fit. Team Sky riders were his main professional focus in 2018, before he transferred his talents to football as head of medical for Tottenham Hotspur’s youth academy. When Covid-19 arrived, it presented little threat to the teenage prodigies under Gant’s care. Besides, all games were off.
“When football shut down in March, I went back to work in the NHS,” he tells me by video call from his home in Woodford Green, London, recounting
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