Four years ago at the Olympics in Brazil he was the flag-bearer for the SA team and sprinted off with a gold medal after breaking the world record for the men’s 400m.
Instead, he told SowetanLIVE sister publication TimesLIVE this week: “What’s important now is that the world gets better and keeps safe.”
He said he was hoping the delay could help his chances, and that his “goal right now is to go sub 43 sec”.His message to fellow SA Olympians is this: “Work hard on your dreams! Don’t let all this distract you. Everybody is going through the same thing so just work harder on your dreams.” Tatjana Schoenmaker is an Olympic medal hopeful at the Tokyo Games and is aiming to end a 20-year-old wait for a South African female swimmer to grab an Olympic medal.Schoenmaker says of the Olympic postponement: “Initially I was relieved that a decision had been made because our training was taking strain with the lockdown, but once it had sunk in, I was disappointed that after all the hard work I wouldn’t get to the Olympics this year.
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