The last few days we have gotten into a routine: sleep, eat, train, cold tub, therapy. In the spare time that we do get, we usually just hang out in the Village or in the Canadian athletes lounge watching other sports. Day 2: (Switching over to the actual days of the Olympics) Today was a [...]
Karen Cockburn vividly recalls catching a glimpse of an eight-year-old Rosie MacLennan hanging around the Skyriders Trampoline Club in Toronto. “She was just, like, this little cute girl at my club that I thought was really good,’’ the three-time Olympic medallist was reminiscing Monday. “She got better and better. Then she made the junior team, [...]
We only arrived in London a few days ago and it already seems like we have done so much! Day 1: When we arrived at Heathrow, we were welcomed by some of the Games volunteers that made the transition through fast and simple. Once we had our accreditation validated, it was off to the village! [...]
At the end of June, Karen, Jason and I travelled to Albacete, Spain and Arosa, Switzerland for the two last World Cups leading into London. All three of us were excited to get on the field of play, check out the other athletes and also see how our routines measured up against the competition. This [...]
Any athlete can tell you, the recovery process from an injury or set back is one of the more frustrating experiences. The, “two steps forward, one step back” process is challenging because it is easy to get caught up on the “one step back.” For me, I looked at my teammates Karen and Jason who [...]
The last two weeks have been two of the more frustrating ones on my journey to London. I got my first concussion and I missed my first National Championships since 1999. I have had to balance my internal drive to push through anything to get to my goals and to hold back, looking at the [...]