SOME diverting and life-affirming personal stories are being shared with the group in an upstairs room at Scotstoun Stadium.

A number of disadvantaged young people from across Scotland are taking turns to hold the floor and issue a progress report to their mentors on the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust programme, some of whom just happen to be world-class athletes, about how they have transformed their lives with a bit of financial help from the players of the People's Postcode Lottery.

But when it comes to the events that have befallen them in the past 12 months, none of them has a more startling backstory than Stephanie Inglis. Two years after she was collecting a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, this 28-year-old judoka from the Highlands knows she is simply fortunate still to be able to tell the tale.

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Inglis's story reads like the plot for a book or a Hollywood movie. In time it may be both. It was back in May 2016, when she was opted out of the Rio qualification process to take a sabbatical from her sport teaching English as a foreign language in Ha Long, Vietnam, that she got on a motorbike taxi to take her home from work. Her skirt got caught in the wheel, pulling her off the motorcycle.

But her ordeal wasn't over there. At first she was abandoned by the driver at the side of the road, relying on the kindness of two random strangers to transport her to hospital.

Then, when it emerged that the correct travel insurance was not in place, her friend Khalid Gehlan set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds online, and the Scottish judo community and some other random strangers raised north of £300,000 to finance her treatment.

When she finally came round from an induced coma, with her parents Robert and Alison at her bedside, with no knowledge of the entire incident, rest assured there was quite a scrapbook available to fill in the blanks.

"I would like there to be a film of my life, I would definitely do that," Inglis told Herald Sport. "I will play myself! Maybe I could write a book too. I think it would be important to get my story out there. If anything, just to prevent something like this happening to anybody else in the future. Not that I did anything daft - I did what I was told. It was just a freak accident.

"I had a one per cent chance of survival at the start of it," she added. "All the odds were against me. Even the doctors back home now are saying 'why are you here?' It is a miracle, just crazy, that I am alive."

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The story may yet have the Hollywood ending. Having been told that the conditioning work which she put in as she pursued her judo career might just have saved her life, now Inglis is targeting a return to the Scotland team for Tokyo in 2022, the next time when the martial art will be back on the games schedule.

That is quite a stretch considering that she still awaits one extensive piece of surgery to get a titanium plate inserted to replace one side of her skull, and must still be chaperoned in everything she does by her mother, father or sister.

This will be a long road back and no mistake - so consequently this business studies graduate has lined up a full-time job as a trainee manager at a car rental firm in the Highlands.

"I would like to return to competitive judo - I think I owe it to myself," said Inglis.

"When I was in Vietnam I did miss it a lot, as good as it was to experience new things and live my life without it. And I do want to get back into it. I would love to compete for Scotland in the next Commonwealth Games, which for judo will be in 2022.

"That would probably be my final competition but I am under no illusions that that will be a hard task. Just getting back into training and back into shape, judo fitness, will be awful!

"I would certainly challenge anyone who says I would be mad to do it," she added. "I am pretty sure I can adapt my training.

"The doctors say I can never be thrown again but getting thrown is sore anyway. I will do the throwing. I have come through the odds already so why can't I overcome these ones. There are different ways where I could adapt the training and just be sensible. I don't see why I can't - at least try.

"I am sure I get my mum and dad on board eventually, right now I think they are just a bit worried. My mum is kind of like 'we'll see, we'll see'. But I am sure they will support me in any decision I make. I have got time on my side.

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"Every doctor I have had has said that if I wasn't so strong and so physically fit I would have had a lot more struggle coming through this."

For all that this is a feelgood story, Inglis still has plenty of things to work through, simple every day things that you or I might take for granted.

"It has been a horrible experience," she says. "I am still not allowed to drive, I feel I have lost my independence, I am not allowed to go anywhere just now without my dad, sister [Stacey] or my mum with me. I can't just make a decision and go and do something.

"Everything changed in that split second but I just have to move on from it all now," she added. "I have got no memories at all of anything, because I was either in an induced coma or just out of it at the time. But because I wasn't aware of anything throughout that whole time, the memories aren't there, so the doctors assure me I shouldn't suffer any flashbacks or anything.

"I hope I can be an inspiration. It would be great - if I did manage to get back to a Commonwealth Games competing, and maybe even win another medal. To have overcome something so massive I think would be an inspiration to people.

"To work with the trust and be able to share that story is good. It helps give people motivation and keeps them pushing to whatever they want to do."