Laura Wilkinson hopes to write one more chapter in her inspiring comeback by reaching her fourth Olympics.
Laura Wilkinson is more than twice the age she was when she took home a diving gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, but that hasn't stopped the 43-year-old mother of four from chasing one last Olympic dream.
The Houston native has qualified for Sunday's diving finals at the U.S. Olympic trials in her bid to earn a spot on Team USA for next month's Tokyo Olympics.told NBC Sports "When you feel called to do something and you're passionate about it, you just want to be all in," she said on TODAY."It's the drive, it's the love, and I love that my kids get to watch me do this, not just by telling them how to live their lives. But they're seeing me, the blood, sweat and tears that it takes to actually get there."
Wilkinson said in a video that she had a 90-minute surgery to remove two degenerated discs from her neck along with bone spurs. Surgeons used implants to graft the bone together and stimulate bone healing, while also putting a titanium plate behind her esophagus.
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