Sport
The lost year: How three athletes dealt with the Olympics that wasn’t – Sydney Morning Herald
The postponement of the Tokyo Games threw preparations into chaos. But for some, an extra year of training has been a blessing in disguise.
McCulloch won a bronze medal in the team sprint in London but missed the 2016 Games in Rio after being selected as a reserve. She had contemplated retirement even before that, so the news Tokyo 2020 was being shifted back a year would be seismic.
It has been a tumultuous year on many fronts for McCulloch, who battled a crippling back injury then found out her sprint partner Stephanie Morton had elected to retire. The pair have been world champions and would have been among the gold medal favourites…
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