Less than 100 days before competing in Paris, Sydney-based Olympians have been forced to move to Japan to get regular track time ahead of Paris.
Less than 100 days before the start of the Olympics in Paris, two of Australia’s medal prospects in the high jump, Eleanor Patterson and Brandon Starc, have expressed their frustration at moving to Tokyo for a month due to the lack of consistently available elite training facilities in Sydney.
“We head overseas to Japan purely because we don’t get access to a track in Sydney during the day, and so it’s quite tough in a lot of ways,” Patterson said.“I certainly want to encourage young athletes and young kids to get involved in school carnivals and whatnot, but yeah, it means that we can’t get access to a track and we end up going to Japan.
“This is my assumption on the reality, that we’re not viewed as a big enough sport to warrant a facility, but we are the major Olympic sport ,” Stewart said. Stewart has also discussed the issue of a lack of suitable available facilities with his network of athletics coaches across Australia, acknowledging it is not an isolated issue.
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