Kieran Behan spoke on tonight's Off The Ball about his struggles with traumatic brain injury, his preparation for Rio and day-to-day life trying to fund his dream.

"Life is pretty hectic at the moment," he said, "I'm training as much as I can. I train six days a week. My training is all about body management at the minute and getting myself to full fitness because I've just come off a very heavy routine."

Behan discussed his experience after the London Games in 2012 and how he had considered giving up the sport.

"I didn't hit exactly what I wanted to hit in the competition but that's the nature of sport. I did go through a very tough time in 2013. I had to have surgery again on my knee, that was my fifth operation.  

"I was in no-man's land, I thought 'is this it? has my knee completely given out?'.

"I had no money, I was trying to survive. I had no support and I can't talk about the injury too much in case I do get support. Depression was an understatement really. I was struggling an awful lot and I think that was the closest I had ever come to packing it all in.

"It wasn't the sport side of it at all, it was the finances of it to survive. At that time I couldn't work and go to the building site with my Dad. I couldn't coach gymnastics because I'm laid up in bed with my knee in the air. I wondered how long will it be like this?"

 You can listen to his full story by clicking the link below.