Olivia Attwood breaks down after The Games bike crash that leaves her in agony

OLIVIA Attwood is seen struggling once again in tonight’s The Games.

The TV star, 31, takes a nasty tumble while practising for the cycling event and is left writhing around the floor in agony.

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In scenes set to air tonight, Olivia is seen cycling close to Phoenix, declaring: “Ah it’s so scary.”

They then collide into each other and Olivia goes flying to the floor with a loud crash.

She immediately breaks down, saying:  “It’s just gone straight through that elbow into my bad shoulder.”

Earlier this week Olivia feared she might have to quit the competition after sustaining the injury to her shoulder.

Ahead of the diving, she told The Sun: “My shoulder is being monitored all the time, but if I had to pull out now it would be heart-breaking after spending all this time training. I want to be part of it. 

“The ideal thing to do would be to rest, but I’m only going to get this chance once, so I would like to be able to compete.

“It’s hard as well because I know my athletic ability is probably better than what I am able to showcase at the moment.”

Olivia first noticed her shoulder was painful after diving training, but it grew worse after the bike crash.

She added: “The overhead position where you lock behind your ears is quite unnatural and early in diving training I was getting pain in the evening, like an ache. It came and went. It got worse and I went for a scan. 

“I had an injection to try to bring down the inflammation but just two days later I was in a crash on a bike with Phoenix and my shoulder bashed the barrier two days after the injection. 

“It was such bad timing and I was in really bad pain. I was crying my eyes out for two days.”

Last night viewers watched as Olivia broke down as she struggled with the javelin.

She admitted people didn’t know the real her, saying: “Since Love Island I am myself but I do also play a character that people have bought into.

“There’s layers to everyone and there’s layers to me that people who’ve watched me won’t have seen because I don’t let anyone see them.”

Overcome with emotion Olivia put her head in her hands as she started crying.

She added: “At school I was streams ahead of everyone in every discipline. I feel like now I’m not the top of this group.

“It’s a very exposing experience”

The Games continues live from the Velodrome tonight at 9pm ITV.

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