Keely Hodgkinson unexpectedly bagged herself a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but the huge win actually caused her to enter a 'stage of depression'
Keely Hodgkinson is among the athletes competing on at the 2024 Olympic Games, and there's no doubt she's feeling the pressure. The middle-distance runner made history when she competed at Tokyo 2020 and took home a silver medal for her efforts.
At Tokyo 2020, Keely, who was then just 19 years old, broke the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995, cementing herself as one to watch. However, her incredible - and unexpected - silver medal win posed challenges for Keely, who has been open about experiencing an intense "Olympic comedown" after the games.
Speaking on the High Performance Podcast, she said: “I would actually say I did hit a stage of depression at some point. I didn’t realise how much the Olympic comedown was actually a really big thing. I was 19, I had such a big high, because an Olympic medal is something I dreamed of. Did I think it was going to happen at 19? Absolutely not. It just kind of did."
Keely, who has since won three European titles and two World Championship silver medals, said she couldn't understand why she would be feeling so down, after such an enormous achievement. She revealed she felt like she "couldn't really get any sort of high from anything else" and ended up focusing on trying to appreciate the little things and her loved ones.
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