Much of an Olympic high jump final is spent watching and waiting. In very different ways, Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson conquered the in-betweens before soaring above the competition.
Nicola Olyslagers takes a long, slow, lonely walk along the Stade de France track, away from the congregation of the world's best high jump ers.
It's not the only technique employed. Patterson lays out a towel for herself away from the others, a place she can sit alone and indulge in her process. Olyslagers can boast an Olympic medal already, having taken the silver in Tokyo with the performance that put her on the national map. But Patterson has a World Championship to her name from Oregon 2022, something Olyslagers can not match.Two athletes, born only a few months apart, whose rises have coincided and led to an Australian double-threat on the world stage. Centimetres separate these two — centimetres, and a bit of style.
After a interminable pause as the women's 800m semis are completed, Olyslagers and Mahuchikh are suddenly in something akin to a jump off for Olympic gold. Once again, Olyslagers turns to her journal to fill the vacant time. Mahuchikh meanwhile has the sleeping bag unravelled and lays down with her eyes closed, seemingly taking a little nap in the middle of an Olympic final. Nice for some.Both Olyslagers and Mahuchikh miss their first two cracks at 2.02m, but with the countback in play and because she missed her first two attempts at 2m, it's sudden death for the Australian.
Olyslagers and Patterson are very different people, but they are bonded by some exclusive commonalities.
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