It's a long, steep and winding road for Australia's Olympic wrestlers as they train in the remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan with eyes on gold in Paris.
The last thing Australia n wrestler Jayden Lawrence thought he'd be doing while on an intense training camp in the lead up the Olympics is trying horse milk.The 29-year-old from Camden, south-west of Sydney, is currently in the mountains of rural Kyrgyz stan — a twelve-hour drive away from the capital, Bishkek."Lucky for me, I'm not very fussy with my foods, but they've got 'different' types of foods I guess you could say.
"My coach speaks the language, so he's the translator. He has to be next to me and be like 'okay, what are we doing next,' then he'll translate each time." Since 2012, Jayden has tried to qualify for the Olympics three times. In each attempt, he was knocked out at the same semi-final stage.
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