After 24 years since the first Olympics I attended (Atlanta, 1996), this is the first one where I will not follow athletes fighting to win a medal. After 6 editions, I will no longer experience the excitement of talking to athletes who want to run the race of a lifetime in the following days. Working with them is always as exciting as the first time. I have never experienced their joy but the defeats that there were, I felt them inside me for a long time. I still think about some of them today and wonder what I should have done differently for the performance to go differently. The impression is that you had everything in hand and then, all of a sudden, a sea of emotions took everything away.
Pandemic affected this situation a lot. I probably had the opportunity to be part of the Chinese shooting team, I had been with them at the 2019 world championships and their sports center in Beijing but the covid is stopped this collaboration.
I will watch them on television with some disappointment that I did not this time “qualify” for the most important sporting event in the world.
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