A few minutes later, it was first announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics had been postponed, and then an email was received informing her that her wedding had been cancelled.
“This requires a lot of work, and the pace has changed a lot,” she said 15 months after the earthquake. “I went from full-time training and planning weddings to almost nothing.”
2020 is not the most important year of her life-climbing for the first time in the Olympics, Coxie tied the knot-now is 2021.
Her fiancé is the climber Ned Feehally, although both of them avoided the pitfalls of their respective careers.
In their shared home, there are few signs that their shared passion bar is hidden in the basement’s climbing wall, which becomes a necessary condition for lock-in to stay in shape. The only mountain-themed element on their wedding day is the location-the peak area of their wedding last month.
This year’s delay looks sure to help her competition, enabling her to perform two surgeries in a week.
In June, she underwent surgery on her knee — “tied some cartilage” — and thought, “My knee is complete, why don’t my wrists?” to eliminate some inflammation.Both operations were successful Cauchy Climb back, in her own words, “super fast”.
Will this make her a stronger competitor in the revised 2020 Tokyo Olympics? “Of course,” she said. “We are working around them and it is still possible to participate in the Olympics in good condition. Now I have trained without worrying about them, I didn’t notice them. I can’t figure it out now, so this is a huge benefit.”
Unsurprisingly, Covid is still having an impact. Kent’s variant made her ineligible for some competitions. It is frustrating that some athletes have benefited from more training opportunities and competition simulations.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: GB Medal Team
But at the age of 27, she is one of the most experienced competitors in the field. She said: “I have participated in the competition for such a long time, the competition experience is not something I need to gain more. For young climbers, it is really difficult, but this is the world now.”
on the paper, Cauchy Will be one of the medal contenders, but prefer to focus on the process. “If this is worthy of a medal, it would be great,” she said. “But who knows? When I qualified for the Olympic Games at the World Championships, I was in poor health and had the flu. I won third place, which opened my eyes because I still had a lot of things to do. pay.”
The current summit of the women’s Olympic climbing world is Janja Garnbret. The two are close friends. As for being competitors, Coxie said: “It’s interesting to talk about these girls as competitors, because we are all friends. We are not competing with each other-only us and the wall.”
For a long time, the Olympic Games have been regarded as the breaking point of rock climbing. “The more people who want to see it and try it, it will make the Olympics more important. Climbing there is essential, in fact it is very magical, because I never thought I would be in my career See it in.
It may be delayed by a year, but Coxie is about to realize her and her sports dreams.
