One year out from the rescheduled start of the Tokyo Olympics, three-time gold medalist Marnie McBean wrote a letter to Canada's athletes, touching on the unprecedented disruption of the coronavirus
Marnie McBean speaks after being named the Olympic chef de mission for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games in Ottawa on July 1, 2019.Marnie McBean has a message for Canada’s Olympic athletes: however they navigate these turbulent times will be part of a story they’ll tell for the rest of their lives.
While athletes knew it was the right decision, it was gut-wrenching nonetheless. Elite athletes rely on routine and the ability to carefully steer their own course as best they can, and suddenly the future was a massive unknown. The 52-year-old said she still tells her Olympic story decades later, and stressed to Canada’s athletes “how they are filling the pages is up to them.”“Your plan was thrown in the garbage but your goal was not. . . your story continues,” she wrote. “You’ve come up with a plan and you and your team are figuring it out.
There have even been competitive successes. Distance runner Moh Ahmed shattered his Canadian record in the 5,000 metres recently.Story continues below advertisement At the same time, Tokyo’s organizing committee president indicated the world must get the virus under control with a vaccine or drugs for the Games to go ahead.Japanese people are also skeptical the Games will go ahead, with more than 33 per cent of those polled saying they should be cancelled. And while Tokyo had done well to duck the coronavirus, the city government announced Thursday it had topped 300 new cases for the first time.
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