cathartic

The work, which had its New York premiere on Thursday and repeats on Saturday, is capacious, confounding, cathartic.

"It was quite cathartic. You can go into this headspace where you're almost daydreaming," she said of the latter stages of the race.

He has used that time to write a book - All That Matters: My Toughest Race Yet - which is released this week, and says the process was "cathartic".

Speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music's Huw Stephens, he said singing live became "hugely cathartic" in escaping the "doom and gloom" he felt.

Meeting and interviewing him was a cathartic experience for me - he was a black footballing trailblazer that every Caribbean household cherished.