Three years between Paralympic Games instead of four has Paris 2024 coming at high speed for champion swimmer Aurelie Rivard.
A double gold medallist in Tokyo's Games, which were postponed from 2020 to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 27-year-old from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., is adjusting to a compressed turnaround.
"We usually have that one buffer year and we jumped directly into the world championship season," said Rivard, whose 10 career Paralympic medals include five gold."It required a lot of adjustment mentally." "It's always been tough in a sense," Rivard said."It's true there's been an evolution of the movement. Records keep getting broken. The podium is harder to access for sure. My personal challenge is to stay there."
But how Canada defines success in sport is in transition because of a multitude of safe-sport problems that surfaced in recent months. Athletes from Russia and Belarus remain barred from competing in sports sanctioned by the International Paralympic Committee . "I don't have a sense of what the team feels, but I can tell you my hope for the team," said Canadian co-chef de mission Josh Vander Vies.
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