London 2012 Olympics: Lynsey Sharp determined to emulate father at European Championships in Helsinki "I said to my mum last week, "If that happened to me I don't think I'd be able to get through it." It's amazing that he's come back. The memory of her father's legal battle for compensation, which culminated in an award of £1.5 million in damages from the hospital that treated him, has already shaped her career as she was motivated to study law at university and graduated just over a week ago. Now Lynsey, 21, is hoping to follow in her father's footsteps by making it to the Olympics and, though she faces fierce competition for her place, her destiny is at least in her own hands. Her trials victory means that if she can slice three-quarters of a second off her personal best and run the Olympic "A" standard of 1min 59.90sec, then her selection is guaranteed. Jemma Simpson, who was runner-up behind her at the trials, will also seal her Olympic place if she can achieve the standard in either Thursday's 800m semi-finals or Friday's final, but the third Briton in the field, 2009 world bronze medallist Jenny Meadows, faces the toughest task of all. Thursday will be her first competitive outing of the year after suffering an Achilles tear in the winter and she was not even able to wear spikes until a fortnight ago. Unless she can prove her fitness to the selectors, her Olympic hopes will be over.