Mentally, elite athletes steel themselves by looking to the finish line. Suddenly, the finish line had been pushed out of reach Every day since March, I have thought about the postponement of the 2020 Olympics. I had spent the past four years consumed by the idea of representing Australia in Tokyo. After competing at London 2012, I missed out on qualification for Rio 2016 by a few milliseconds. I was determined to make my country proud this year. Now, I cannot. But as the months passed by, I hav...
Covid has stripped Olympic glory from a generation of athletes - that's heartbreaking | Steve Solomon
The Guardian - 28 Aug 2020 22:00
Mentally, elite athletes steel themselves by looking to the finish line. Suddenly, the finish line had been pushed out of reach Every day since March, I have thought about the postponement of the 2020 Olympics. I had spent the past four years consumed by the idea of representing Australia in Tokyo. After competing at London 2012, I missed out on qualification for Rio 2016 by a few milliseconds. I was determined to make my country proud this year. Now, I cannot. But as the months passed by, I hav...
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