Oleksiak finds life balance, pool speed in time for Tokyo. MORE:
What changes in a life between the ages of 16 and 21? Pretty much everything.
When Oleksiak's coach tells her at the pool she can swim faster, and a random person in a grocery store tells her the same day she's a national heroine, Oleksiak feels better equipped to process both scenarios.The COVID-19 pandemic postponed the Tokyo games by a year, which gave Oleksiak another year of maturation but also stripped her of opportunities to race.
"I feel like I've gone through more in the last four or five years than I have in my 15 years prior to that. I feel like I've learned a lot and really learned a lot about myself.During that time, Oleksiak tackled life's rites of passage. She moved out of the family home into her own apartment in Toronto and began dating Wilfrid Laurier University basketball player Adnan Begovic.
In Rio, Oleksiak tied with American Simone Manuel for gold in the women's 100-metre freestyle in Olympic-record time, took silver in the 100-metre butterfly and anchored the Canada's freestyle relay teams to a pair of bronze medals. After Oleksiak was shut out of medals in individual races at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, she took a break from swimming.Oleksiak hadn't qualified the 100-metre butterfly at domestic trials, but did in the 200-metre freestyle which she hadn't raced in Rio.She, her coach Ben Titley and Atkinson then made the decision for her to withdraw from the 100 freestyle and focus on the relays.
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