NBC Olympics Updated: July 29, 2021 06:38 PM
Cancer doesn t care who you are. One in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. It matters not if you are a banker, a farmworker or a world-class athlete.
Jorge Fonseca knows.
Before Fonseca could continue the Olympic journey that led to a bronze medal in judo in Tokyo on Thursday, Fonseca had to detour to an unexpected path that would take him on a different journey a cancer journey. I was diagnosed with cancer a year before the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, the Portuguese judoka said in an interview with Inside Judo. It was a really bad moment in my life. Before the diagnosis I was feeling very confident and well prepared, physically and mentally. And then I got the news.
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