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Olympians' Second Acts: What Sporting Heroes Did Next 62 1GM Tuesday July 20 2021 | the times the times | Tuesday July 20 2021 1GM 63 Sport Tokyo Olympics Sport ALAMY; JOHN BERRY/GETTY IMAGES; AP; BILLY STICKLAND/ALLSPORT/GETTY IMAGES; GILL ALLEN/AP part of the plan. It started out as a bit of fun after years of training and discipline. But as soon as you go Once Britain’s next through adversity, you’ve got this Olympians’ second attachment to this thing that makes you relax. When life started to go downhill, it became a coping mechanism. I didn’t tell everyone big thing, Williams what I was going through. It was a quiet battle. Growing up, we had gone to acts: what sporting Catholic church with my finally comes of age grandparents, but I was very anti- Christian. I used to tell my sister off for wasting her time. Rock bottom for attention and the feeling that I did not me was when I walked away from my GB sprinter has found a have a grip on my own narrative. I felt relationship and became a single contentment going into everyone around me was dictating mum. I was sitting in my parents’ what my story should be when I didn’t heroes did next bedroom and I thought, “What have I Tokyo that was beyond know what I wanted. Naomi says her got to show for my life?” That’s when identity is linked to being a success I called on God. her as a teenage star, and a lot of my self-worth was linked James Gheerbrant loose in a shop — all your life When I first walked into church I Rick Broadbent to winning races; if I didn’t win I’d get you’ve been told that you only have had so much regret, shame, guilt, self- writes lost. People assume sportspeople are discovers how athletes the right to concentrate on one thing, hatred. God took that weight from very confident and outgoing, but a lot and suddenly you get to look around, me. From that moment, I had to tell n the old days, when Jodie of the time we have different personas. carve out new lives try things out. You have to find a people, “This is the answer,” for Williams was still being hailed as “Being British you are expected to new passion. anyone who was going through the the next big thing, the narrative present yourself in a certain way, very after experiencing the I grew up in Martinique, a small pain that I was going through. was Money Makers v Chicken humble, not cocky. I agree we have a island in the Caribbean. My father I started my ministry and Legs. Her moniker was invented duty not to be outrageous, but it’s very thrill of the Games was a vet, and I took my first philanthropic organisation in 2015. Iby a school friend while the other damaging to pretend you are someone swimming strokes in the sea, so The goal is to help children and the nickname reflected the skinny else to appease other people. We ‘Cyclists suffer and fight; that connection with animals and most vulnerable people. I don’t belong physique of her American idol Allyson should be allowed to showcase what nature was always there. During my to any denomination. I’m on stages, I Felix. It did not quite work out like we truly think and believe.” the fire service is the same’ swimming career I got my veterinary talk in churches, I do public speaking. that, but the two women are back at The Olympic trials in 2012 were a qualifications, because I knew I I was going to start my own church, the Olympic Games and ready to turning point. She tore her hamstring Roy Knickman, a cyclist, competed for wanted to go in that direction. After but I’ve stepped back a bit. I’m doing speak out. and that put her in a depressive the USA at the 1984 Olympics in Los Rio I joined a turtle rehabilitation a degree in theology and law, building Williams, 27, was the first girl to tailspin. By then she already knew that Angeles, winning bronze in the team centre on the French mainland, my ministry slowly. achieve a world youth 100m and 200m you can be brilliant and racked by time-trial. Now 56, he recently retired near Montpellier. I was in the Amazon jungle on a double. She was also the world junior indiscriminate doubt. after 15 years as a firefighter in You get turtles that are visibly Christian mission. I thought, “How 100m champion and she went a Williams is only two years older California and runs Lux Cycling, a injured, which we’ve been alerted to are you going to help these people staggering 151 races before she lost at than Dina Asher-Smith, the woman junior team for young American riders. three blocks from my high school. by passing boats, or those that have out here, how do you get to them?” the age of 16 in 2010. She burst into now carrying the sprint hopes of After I retired from racing, at first I Houses that I knew were burning. We been accidentally caught in fishing I wrote “helicopter” in my journal, tears but the template for the future Britain, but beneath the radar she did what is typical for many cyclists: were driving by, trying to pick a house nets. The fishermen call us, saying, without any intention at the time. seemed set. Instead, injuries, seems to have found a level of I worked for USA Cycling as a coach. we could save. “We’ve got a turtle in our net, could I came back to Sydney and six depression and a feeling that she was contentment that was beyond her But the travel was hard on the family. It can be pretty traumatising, once you come and rescue it?” months later I decided to get my living someone else’s story consumed when the world was at her feet. So I made the decision to have a little you start stacking the layers of The days are spent feeding and helicopter licence. It was an intense her. The tattoos, inked after each major When she missed out on 2012, her more stability. At 38 years old, I exposure to tragedy and death. The caring for the turtles — anything course. I took seven months, I had mental battle, struggled for space. parents had already bought Olympic decided to become a firefighter. psychological impact can break you. from cleaning and stitching their to move away from my son, but I got Felix, 35, has nine Olympic medals. tickets expecting to watch her run. She I chose the fire service because it I left a little bit early, at least based on wounds, checking they’re healing my wings. One more and the Californian will join went to one session and could not face looked challenging, it would allow me my financial plan, because I’d had properly, to fetching fish or squid for The plan is, down the track, to buy Carl Lewis as the second most another. Five years ago in Rio she to use my physical ability, and it was enough. It was getting really difficult them to eat. The objective is to take helicopters for our organisation, to decorated track and field athlete in bowed out in the 200m semi-final, team-based: you have your engine to be doing CPR and have another care of them so that they can be use them to help vulnerable people in history after Paavo Nurmi, the “Flying while Asher-Smith finished fifth in the company and you rely on each other, person die under your hands: a released back into the ocean. remote areas. I could have played five Finn” from the Roaring Twenties. final. There was the solace of silver at just like in a cycling race. In fact, 35-year-old woman, or a child. It’s a wonderful feeling when you Olympics — I was 17 [in 2000] and More significantly for Williams, Felix the European Championships and I didn’t realise how similar the But it’s a good job. It’s a family. And let them go, a sense of “mission I was one of the best players. But has also taken on Nike over maternity Commonwealth Games in 2014, but camaraderie would be. It’s like going when you’re on the front line, it’s accomplished”. You’ve played a part perhaps the crushing I went through rights and testified to Congress about she had to wait until March this year to to war. In cycling, you suffer and fight pretty darn exciting. As a firefighter in the life of this iconic animal, which in my twenties was something I the alarming mortality rate of black land another senior medal when she and experience extreme conditions that’s what you live for. I remember is so affected by the activities of needed to suffer for the greater good. women in childbirth. So it is not only won bronze at the European Indoor together, and that creates a bond. It’s one fire at Santa Barbara. We were humankind. It’s hugely rewarding. about medals and it seems fitting that Championships in Poland. By then she the same in the fire service. going over a ridge, we got trapped, I noticed the problem of pollution ‘In a way I was happy the two women, who trained together was the team captain and running the The training is physically and and there were 50-foot flames coming when I did my diving badges in briefly in 2010, will now meet again in 400m.
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