That’s what makes the fact she will not be in Japan all the more difficult for her team.
Back in February, Stott was diagnosed with Hodgkin s lymphoma, a rare type of blood cancer. On Wednesday, while New Zealand take to the pitch, she will receive the results from her latest PET scan, which will determine whether she is in complete remission.
“I am fortunate enough to have represented my country at two Olympic Games already, but it doesn’t make the heartbreak of missing out this year, in one of my favourite countries, any easier,” she wrote on her blog, ‘beat it. by Stotty’, earlier this month.