she s broken the world record. kenni harrison. reporter: your face in that moment was priceless. yeah. reporter: you were just in disbelief. i just see wr and i thought oh, i did it. oh, my realized it was time body as well as her mind. my mental game was hindering me. reporter: she began working with a sports psychologist and by the start of 2020 she felt like a brand-new athlete and then came the pandemic. what was the hardest part of that for you? keeping the dream alive, you know. reporter: it meant getting creative. finding new spaces to run dodging everyone in sight and even facing her own covid battle. if you finally make it to the olympics, do you think it will make it sweeter in the end for you? yeah, of course. if you re able to put your mindset to be positive and you can do anything. the rest should be pretty easy. reporter: back on track with her long-delayed olympic dream finally coming true.
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the contrast between what s going on inside the olympic stadium tonight and what s going on outside in tokyo could not be more stark. because of covid, because of the state of emergency, the stadium seats are empty, and yet here we are, right outside tens of thousands of people gathered in public squares and public parks to try and glimpse a bit of the action. and if you go in the streets around here, the restaurants are all full, life is going on as normal. there s some pretty strange logic going on here. translation: | am sure the government is taking measures to prevent the spread of the virus by separating the athletes from the public. so i am not worried. for some, these scenes show the ban on 0lympic spectators is unnecessary. but with covid cases in tokyo claiming rapidly, others will say this demonstrates exactly why the spectator ban is needed. so what will it be like for athletes to compete without spectators? dr david fletcher is a sports psychologist at loughborough uni
for spectators, including one former two time olympic medallist fatima whitbread. and in the us capital, washington, in spite of the 13 hour difference with japan, bars opened in the early morning for eager fans to watch the games kick off before some headed off to work. so, what will it be like for athletes to compete without spectators? dr david fletcher is a sports psychologist at loughborough university. it varies very much from athlete to athlete, and with some athletes actually get really quite nervous, as they walk out into the arena. it is like no other cauldron of fierce competition, and the crowd itself can add a dynamic to that. but of course, the japanese athletes, they would ve benefited from the home support. they ll no longer have that. so, i think it s very much on a case by case basis, but i personally think for the majority of our athletes, it won t actually
pandemic, and whether they were just itching to start competing? there are lots of things itching to start competing? there are lots of things to itching to start competing? there are lots of things to be itching to start competing? there are lots of things to be accessed l are lots of things to be accessed about in the olympic arena, but covid, strangely, even at this point, is not one of them on an athlete s worry sheet. you worry about your performance, your competitors perhaps, you worry about the outcome, and it sounds selfish and it sounds very strange, but it s part of the skill of performing at a top level, that you are able to get rid of the external things you can t control. you can t control the weather, you can t control the weather, you can t control the weather, you can t control the media, you can t control the crowd, and in this instance you can t control covid, so you are trying as best you can to put it to one side and get on. the trying as best you can to put i
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