contingent

The Premier 15s, as it was originally known, was backed by £2.4m of funding, contingent on the clubs meeting standards around professional coaching, sports science and medical support for players.

He is currently director of business development and strategy and this week was part of a Steelers contingent that visited Newry, an hour's drive from Dublin, just across the border in Northern Ireland.

As part of a 37-strong British contingent, external headed for India, he goes into the championships with "my hunger back", having struggled with the comedown from his Paralympic high.

The breakaway region of Transnistria, propped up by Moscow, is still home to a contingent of Russian troops.

"Metaphors such as fights and struggles are pretty normal. And he was talking about it contingently, wasn't he? He wasn't saying: 'Go out immediately.'"