Jye Edwards is a fighter.
And he must be if the center distance star goes to safe one of the crucial hotly contested spots within the Australian observe and subject for the Paris Olympics.
The unimaginable depth within the males’s 1500m signifies that Edwards, who overcame a ruptured Achilles and stress fractures in his proper femur to make the Tokyo Olympics, has one other battle on his palms if the 26-year-old from NSW desires to go to Paris.
Edwards is up in opposition to reigning Commonwealth Video games 1500m champion Oli Hoare and Stew McSweyn who each made the ultimate in Tokyo plus Cameron Myers and 22-year-old rising star Adam Spencer.
Spencer upstaged everybody final month profitable the 1500m on the Australian Athletics Championships in Adelaide, nevertheless, none of our center distance stars are but to submit an A qualifying time to safe one of many three 1500m spots obtainable for Paris.
If Edwards, who additionally had surgical procedure on his different Achilles post-Tokyo, can stay injury-free he nonetheless believes he has a real shot at making the Paris Olympics.
Talking on the most recent episode of the En Path to Paris podcast, Edwards opens as much as host and triple Olympian Rowie Webster about overcoming setbacks and self doubts to show to himself that he belongs on the world stage.
“As most athletes know, it’s extremely powerful to navigate by some actually low instances, which I positively have” Edwards mentioned.
“There’s positively ideas that creep into your thoughts at instances the place you suppose, jeez, like, my physique simply can’t deal with what this sport calls for.
“Is it even value persevering with on? It’s the emotional rollercoaster that you just go on. However, I suppose for me to do a full 180 and go the opposite method in 2021 was wonderful.
“Simply get there (Tokyo) and have the 12 months that I had and simply type of present that I belonged on that world stage was positively the largest blessing within the final 5 years.”
Initially printed as En Path to Paris Podcast: Jye Edwards on overcoming accidents, psychological battles in Olympic combat
