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Every four years (well, five this time around), we get to see the world’s best athletes compete at the Olympic Games. Through their wins and losses, trips and falls, we see heartening displays of courage and humanity, team spirit and camaraderie, and the human spirit at its highest and lowest. After the year that has been 2020, we’ve never needed. ....
If you are like me, the Olympics has brought a glimmer of excitement to your early mornings and, in my case, late evenings (testing my stamina, I determinedly watched the entire women’s triathlon through to the early hours). Why am I talking about the Olympics? Well, as part of the opening ceremony, a Japanese boxer called Arisa Tsubata was featured running alone on a treadmill. She also happens to be a nurse. Ms Tsubata’s solitary treadmill run during the opening of the Tokyo games was designed to show how athletes had to prepare for the pandemic-hit event in isolation, a feeling many can relate to. ....
Jul 27, 2021 As many of her competitors spent their days preparing for the Olympics, Joan Poh spent much of the past year helping Singapore fight the coronavirus pandemic. Poh, a 30-year-old rower who is representing Singapore at the 2020 Tokyo Games, had been training and competing full time in preparation for the event. But she put that on hold in April 2020 when she returned to her job as a nurse after the government put out a call for front-line medical reinforcements. “In a time of pandemic, going back to work felt like a calling,” she said. “When I’m at work, I’m 100% a nurse. When I’m training, I’m 100% a rower. It’s always about finding that balance and making it work.” ....
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