British Paralympic table tennis player Kim Daybell was entering the final stages of his preparations for Tokyo 2020 when the coronavirus crisis hit and saw the junior doctor thrust into the UK's frontline to help patients
The COVID-19 pandemic not only forced the Tokyo Games to be postponed by a year but also saw junior doctor Daybell thrust into the frontlines of the fight against the outbreak.
This week, the United Kingdom overtook Italy by reporting Europe’s highest official death toll from the new coronavirus with over 30,000 deaths. “I have not picked up a bat now for five weeks I think, which is really weird. Really, really weird,” he said. Daybell says he missed the camaraderie of training with his team mates, which offered a release from the strain of working in a hospital.
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