Desirèe Henry is a British sprinter who competes in 100 and 200 metres races. In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay and in the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, she won silver in the 4 x 100 metres relay race. In 2012, she was one of seven who lit the Olympic cauldron at the London Opening Ceremony after being nominated by Olympic champion decathlete Daley Thompson.

Jephtha at the ROH: compromise is not in Oliver Mears’s dictionary
In the closing moments, Mears delivered a coup de théâ which left his audience visibly shaken.