'It's a dream come true having a gold around my neck,' Dean told reporters after the race. 'I contracted COVID twice in the last 12 months. Sitting in my flat in isolation, an Olympic gold was a million miles away.'
"It's a dream come true having a gold around my neck," Dean told reporters after the race. "I contracted COVID twice in the last 12 months. Sitting in my flat in isolation, an Olympic gold was a million miles away."
Dean said he tested positive the first time last September, but battled a more serious bout of the virus that affected his breathing earlier this year, just a few months ahead of trials. He said that it was not life-threatening, but was bad enough to put his swimming career into question. "The second time was much worse than the first," he said. "I was quite ill for about 10 days and I served the whole isolation period and it's a slow build back up because of the nature of the sport we do and the nature of the disease."
"You can't just go straight back into full-on training so it required a few weeks of building back up," he continued. "Two or three months out of our Olympic trials and I'm stuck inside unable to even exercise inside my own flat. It was tough to wrap my head around that during an Olympic year."of new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, as the Games continue under strict protection protocols.
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