Nina Kennedy made international headlines when she and Katie Moon shared the pole vault gold at the 2023 World Championships. Do not expect her to be quite so generous in Paris.
Australia's greatest ever female pole vault er made international headlines last year when she and American star Katie Moon decided to share a gold medal after a gripping final at the Budapest World Championships.
"It's probably the question I have been asked the most since Budapest. There it felt right, I never second guessed it, it was the right thing to do.Kennedy says she thinks about the prospect of winning Olympic gold every day. She is driven, confident and looking to reach peak performance just in time for these Games.
"I've just learned to separate the two. I could win and I'm still a great person, and I could lose and I'm still a great person.That represents a significant breakthrough for Kennedy, who has previously said she had been left unable to train or compete by spells of depression.Injuries held her back in earlier years and impacted her build-up to Tokyo, where she missed the final after "things crumbled".
"I like to break it down. The expectations are things that are 100 per cent in my control, what I'm going to do out there, what my team are going to do out there — the 'controllables'."I could jump my very highest, I could jump five metres and I could come second, and that is completely out of my control. Someone jumped higher.Kennedy is calm, composed and circumspect on the eve of competition.
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