Re: Tokyo 2021
Reply #17 –
I'm torn about these athletes pulling the pin, I can appreciate why but not having experienced headspace issues myself I can't rationalise this with my own experience, at least none I'm aware of!
But I also appreciate the other side of this coin, in some cases they have taken millions of dollars of public funding, along with taking a spot from a fellow competitor who was probably a Nats away from making the cut.
It's not as black and white as I think, but I appreciate they have to do what's right for them. The question probably then becomes do they get another change?
I recall that poor girl from the rowing, but then I recall her poor team-mates as well!
I've been on the end of a loss due to a Greg Norman like crumbling team-mate in a state final, that same person had already failed before in other teams and had been ejected by them, what to do? Luckily we stuck fat, the next year we got them through in the right frame of mind and we won, we knew from in season performances they were good enough having made and failed in multiple finals, but the Olympics is a different issue due to the long interval you might only get one shot!