The family of Canada's youngest Olympian say the 14-year-old swimmer is ready to make a splash in Tokyo, despite a year of hardships that saw her coach die and her dad diagnosed with cancer.
Summer McIntosh started swimming competitively when she was eight years old and has since broken more than 50 Canadian age group records.
"They're all about to wake up in a couple hours for the first day of racing for swimming. So I think the excitement is really starting to build," she said.Summer lost her long-time swim coach, Kevin Thorburn, who died in April 2020, and her father Greg McIntosh, was diagnosed with cancer this past January.
However, she said Summer talks about him often and will "carry all his wisdom with her throughout her career." Summer defeated four-time Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak to win the 200-metre freestyle race at the 2020 Olympic Swimming Trials in Toronto in June, shocking her family."Hopefully they'll continue to push each other to bigger and better things moving forward," she said.
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