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We were a 100% focused to win a gold medal.
We’ve been working as a team for four years for this.
We were at the best level that we’ve ever had.
I was getting a good rhythm going you know, doing what I loved.
We were in it to fight for a medal.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
It was kind of a big shock.
We had no idea what was coming at us.
Everyone was just grabbing hurdles and twist balls,
weights, everything to try and do it at home.
We have to suddenly go back to Argentina and start this lockdown.
That moment was life changing for all of us.
We cannot plan a year ahead.
All of a sudden you’re like I’m useless.
I think everyone thought: "Okay, 15 days".
BROADCASTER: ...case numbers continue to rise.
It is a long way to Tokyo.
Covid changed everything, suddenly the calendar just dropped,
all the competitions completely stopped.
It was scary,
but actually it gave me this time that I hadn’t had.
An extra year for me to fully be at a 100%.
I just have to be super super careful now, you can’t rush that.
I tore my tendon in 2019.
I can’t pull my leg up on to bed.
They put it back together, put loads of metal stuff around it,
put some nails in my knee.
I couldn’t walk for 6 weeks, then I couldn’t run for 6 months.
I had the whole of 2019 out, so I hadn’t competed in 2 years.
So this is a really significant year for me.
We'll figure how you’re gonna start the run to begin with.
Think about your setup for when you start, okay?
We want everything to be out in front, okay.
Ok, Niamh, in your own time.
NIAMH: I couldn’t run properly I don’t know why.
You’ve spent so much time riding on a bike and being on an elliptical.
When you’re ready
NIAMH: I was 8 years old when I got into athletics.
COMMENTATOR: Come on, Niamh.
NIAMH: I started jogging, doing 800 meters, then did heptathlon.
Heptathlon is the ultimate sport,
you’ve got to be fast, you’ve got to be able to run distance,
you’ve got to throw, jump, you’ve got to do everything.
COMMENTATOR: The World Junior Champion in the Heptathlon outdoors.
The Commonwealth Bronze Medalist.
Ultimately, what I'm thriving to achieve
is to be the best in the world.
It's everybody's goal, really, in sports, I think.
I could keep running all day but not technically well.
So, on the last one I found it really hard to actually run properly,
You just try and push your hips a little bit further forward.
I still think I’m running quite like this.
COACH: You are a little bit...
But I wouldn’t get too worried about that,
again, you’ve got plenty of time to tweak these things
NIAMH: The last time I properly competed was 2018.
I was just quite young compared to now,
I think in every sense, in everything I was doing,
and I feel a lot more... I know what I’m doing a bit more now.
I just have to do it.
COACH: Had your timeline, gone ahead last year.
NIAMH: It's been hard. COACH: It was a blessing in disguise.
NIAMH: Massive, massive blessing.
COMMENTATOR: ...professional athletes across the globe are having to adapt
their training schedules in the most unprecedented ways...
WOMAN: Sports stars like most of us are adjusting
to a very different way of life.
When I read the news for the first time on Twitter,
that’s when it actually became real.
Crazy, crazy, crazy...
It was pretty tough.
I am complete at home,
which is, I mean, in a way, nice.
It's hard to figure out what to do, what's the next step.
That's your job, that's your life, that's your livelihood.
So, I just basically train here, in the backyard.
Welcome to training session, courtyard edition.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
This is the time you learn a lot about who you are
and what you’re capable of doing.
Don’t get down, get up, and keep it moving.
I’m out of here,
my only session here on the track, warming up a little bit.
It's just me out here.
And I love it, it's like meditation.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
The moment the pandemic hit was life changing.
Everything that’s normal for you is out the window, right?
No gym, no fencing, no coaches, no nothing. That’s scary, right?
Not being able to control what you normally can control.
So it's like you’ve gotta take a deep breath and do like...
Everybody’s dealing with this too, all right?
We’re all trying to figure this shit out on our own.
When I put on a mask, right, I feel like a super hero.
It's just the best feeling ever.
I can have the worst day
and I just put the mask on and that’s the best day in my life.
This is what I wake up in the morning to do
and when it's taken away from you, it's tough.
I am two-time World Champion.
BROADCASTER: First American to have won
the Individual World Championships.
MILES: Doing what I love
is probably one of the greatest feelings in the world.
BROADCASTER: Yes, he is a very successful model.
Thank you.
COMMENTATOR: Wonderful attack.
MILES: Being the first ever world champion for the USA,
that was when my life changed.
BROADCASTER: There it is, beautiful.
America has its first ever Men’s Foil World Champion.
I literally cannot wait 'cause I haven’t touched my potential,
and I know that, and I feel that, I can picture myself on the podium.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Wait, what are you doing today? It's so nice out, what you doing?
I know you’re doing something, you’re so cool.
I don’t know.
Yo, where you at?
All right.
He’s in the valley. He’s just there and I’m just here.
I can’t sit still, that’s my problem, I should be able to chill,
but I can’t do that.
I just wanna fence. I am just getting started,
I’m just touching the surface of what I can do.
It just feels so ready to just get out there and fence,
and that’s really what I wanna do,
just compete, that’s what I love to do the most.
But obviously we can’t do anything so...
It's kind of madness because nobody knows anything.
So all you can really do is stay positive, or you’ll go nuts.
[PHONE RINGING]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
What a view.
Peaceful up here.
I'm just trying to call my coach.
See if he’s up.
[GASPS]
Come on, Jay.
Pick up.
[GASPS]
You realise how much you miss something when you can’t have it,
It's really odd. Time, not having a schedule.
Not knowing when the next competition’s gonna be.
[DOG BARKS]
You know, the uncertain is terrifying, right?
BROADCASTER: Well, sports competitions are now being cancelled,
rather than simply postponed.
BROADCASTER: With the crisis escalating,
there are fears about the safety of stadium events.
BROADCASTER: No one knows how long it will be
before sports venues can welcome fans back in again.
So Malaysia is gonna be cancelled.
That means Singapore is gonna be cancelled.
Strange, confusing, upsetting.
It's insane.
A lot of people are not...
Don’t know how to move or know how to be when things are uncertain.
Covid cancelling so much and postponing so much,
I guess you can’t think about that every day,
you know, the what ifs, you’ve gotta stay in the present moment
and just, you know, stay focused on your goals.
You're only allowed to ride within 5 miles of your house,
but luckily, that includes some pretty incredible places
I thought we were married.
I think we have like this special connection.
You know, when we play volleyball we’re forced to marry each other.
We...
We travel around so much that I think we have more time with each other
than we will ever have with our girlfriends.
So, that's the way it is.
- Don't you feel the same? - Yeah.
Chris is my best friend, my partner.
He’s like ice-cold, super sharp. I have more the physique.
The chemistry that we have together. I think that’s really special
When I was in the third grade here, he was in his first.
It's hard to think that that’s the same guy I’m playing with now,
because he was such a skinny little boy.
He liked volleyball, that was for sure.
I didn’t think that he would be as good as he is today.
COMMENTATOR: And there it is, Norway with a spectacular victory.
COMMENTATOR: Anders Bernstein Mol, arguably the best blocker
that beach volleyball has ever seen.
COMMENTATOR: Christian Soren the best defender on tour.
Mission accomplished. The world’s number one team.
We won!
We want more.
COMMENTATOR:Can anybody stop Norway?
We were at the best level that we’ve ever had.
We won the 2018 season, we won the 2019 season
I moved back home. This is where I’ve been staying
since this corona pandemic.
Normally we’re out and about and travelling and living in a suitcase.
Now I’ve actually been spending a lot more time here in this room
than I would ever want to.
It's been a little difficult to actually be forced to slow down.
I can’t enjoy it because I feel like I’m wasting my time.
We were ready to play, fighting for some medals
We have a lot of confidence. We were really on a good flow.
The plan is to walk up here to the top,
- bring these boards and... - Race.
We were so excited to like finally do it in 2020 but now we have to reset.
It's boring just to sit around and not do anything,
so we try to always try some stuff to do.
We like to compete, so it's important to win.
What's the meaning of doing this without competing?
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[PANTING AND GRUNTING]
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, no.
- [Foreign Language] - [Foreign Language]
We were 100% focused in all respects
and suddenly 1 more year to go.
It's hard but...
my fight is on.
Quitting was not on the table.
We, as a team, started thinking:
"From now on, we just have to keep going, doing our best,
until the end."
COMMENTATOR: Legendary duo Santiago Lange
and Cecilia Saroli current reigning gold medalists
with an impressive 8 Olympic campaigns between them.
We go together. It's the coolest thing ever.
COMMENTATOR: All the money is to be made on the Argentinians.
CECILIA: Santi is the one steering and driving
and I am the one accelerating.
It's really important, the coordination between us.
SANTIAGO: 2016 wouldn’t have happened without Ceci.
I know that very well.
Ah, very strange, we all know about this lake,
anything could happen,
so we have to be open minded for everything.
I'm just hoping we can race.
Since the pandemic started, we've been training alone.
Now finally coming here, getting to race, it feels great.
Racing is a special thing. You just have to dance.
COMMENTATOR: Argentina leading the Nacras
as the reigning Olympic Champions.
Now it's getting busy round the bar.
There's the Swiss boat.
Argentina are going to capsize.
Are they going to save it? They just about saved it.
We didn't have the speed, so not very happy.
You always want to sail in the level that you think you are
and when you can't, it's horrible
but it's part of the game.
Problems.
COMMENTATOR: And winner of the Europeans 2020,
Italy 26.
I think I need to work on a lot in my tiredness,
maybe it's not that conscious that we perform worse
at the end of the regatta,
some mistakes that I shouldn't have done
and maybe I was tired.
Now we have one year. One more year
to prepare ourselves and try to choose the best option
between the little options that the covid give us.
It's a lot of work to be done and now it's time to keep pushing hard.
The extra year is a big deal.
It's like you're running a marathon
and when you are about to finish,
they suddenly tell you: "OK, you have to run 20 more kilometres".
[Foreign Language]
I'm talking with my lady.
She sometime stays at night watching my racing.
- [Foreign Language] - [Foreign Language]
I normally can go back home frequently, but now with Covid,
that's not an option, so...
Will you wait for me?
[CHUCKLES]
I have to go.
We need to pack.
COMMENTATOR: In what was turning out to be a year like no other,
millions are now working from home.
Come on, papa.
COMMENTATOR: While some people are spending
more time together than ever before...
COMMENTATOR: What impact is this new work life balance
having on elite athletes?
[Foreign Language]
[LAUGHING]
I'm riding my bike again
- How was the practice today? - I won.
You won? I tell you how was the practice not the match.
My butt?
I feel like having that positive support,
having someone who believes in you,
that you can learn and get better. That's important.
Yes, yes, yes. Man, that's the family y'all.
- That's my mum. - Hi!
- What's up, man? - What is going on there?
Yeah, it's gonna be a good day today, I can already feel it.
You know, I love my parents and they're my coaches also,
so, you know, it's a good way of staying on top of the training.
Living in lockdown with mum and dad,
is not something I'd expect to be doing again.
It feels like I'm in high school again.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm gonna get ready for training.
It's been a while since I've been able to fence so it feels so good,
this is a smile you can't buy.
When you walk into the gym, and this is the best.
Just gonna pack my bag, gonna look for my shoes, oh shoot.
I better have shoes here.
Got a mask, please let me have shoes in here.
Wow, well here's fencing stuff.
Yes!
We're going to go blue today, yes.
I'm very lucky I have a lot of foils.
The other part is picking which ones I wanna destroy people with today.
I normally fence six times a week at least,
so it's really been weird not waking up with a regime.
I don’t like that.
People who know me know I'm the most ADHD, like,
constant sort of person, so my mind is races like anything.
Having ADHD is like you just have a different way of thinking, right?
But if I wasn't ADHD, I would never have become who I am.
There we go.
Game time.
Wow!
Being ADHD is like everything under the sun.
Finding fencing is what changed my life.
Woah!
And it was an after school, kind of help out kids
who needed extra time, and I was like: "I love this."
Wow!
That moment I was like "this is it,"
I'm not doing anything else with my life.
It's good.
Lot of things to work on, well done, very happy.
See you, my man.
I was a little bit nervous to see how my endurance will be considering
we went into it full force today,
but heart still beating, feeling fantastic,
so it was a great first day, I'm very pleased with myself, so.
Success.
Wow! What a day!
BROADCASTER:As of today,
several countries are reopening their borders.
BROADCASTER: Some countries are relaxing regulations
after months of being in lockdown.
BROADCASTER: For many athletes this is a welcome return
to their regular training programs.
JO: I'm at the airport about to fly to Sydney.
We're doing a test run, so it should be interesting.
to finally get on the water.
It's been an interesting couple of months.
I've had some big time with my family,
but at the same time, I'm eagerly looking forward
to getting back on court.
Let's go.
So I'm back.
I've missed a lot of training.
Yeah, back to work, man.
COACH: Good, keep pushing.
NIAMH: Hey, hey.
GORDON: There's the tension, feel it? NIAMH: Yes.
GORDON: Good, how does that feel? NIAMH: Good.
Yeah, you feel that little bit?
So we're just gonna feel that joint and just override it.
Good. You okay?
Sorry about this.
GORDON: That's good then.
I'll use that phrase, I am cautiously optimistic, non-committal.
No, I mean, her body is in a much better place
always round, but there's still a ways to go.
This next couple of weeks she's gonna step up her training again
and she has to step up to the next level.
Once she's transitioned through to the level,
then the chance of injury reduces massively unless she's an idiot.
So for Dubai, now the training's moved up,
staying ahead of the game is critical,
'cause we can't afford to go backwards.
So we've just checked in our bags, and we're way over,
but we managed to get through. Woo-hoo!
Landed in Dubai.
Dubai is just so extra. I think it's just madness,
the skyline is crazy.
We're training at NAS which is a sporting center,
and British Athletics have rented it out.
It's great to be in a really warm climate, your muscles are warmer,
you will recover quicker, it benefits training a lot.
[GRUNTS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
I can't run. I can't do anything,
because I strained my hamstring.
It's quite frustrating because I just keep getting injured.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
[GROANS]
I was doing the hurdles session and I felt my hamstring a tiny bit,
like the tiniest little stretch and I was like
that feels weird,
but I carried on hurdling and, like, running and didn't tell David.
I had my scan and it was a 15 centimeter tear.
And 15 centimeters is a lot like, nearly my whole hamstring.
I didn't stop when I first felt it which is so annoying
because it could have been a 3-day thing.
It's just because I'm so desperate to get 3 weeks of training done.
It's easy to have the role as a coach than a father.
You are always a coach so to have time to be a father is,
is not the first ah, or not so easy
to prioritize this, so...
That's why we have mum, so she can be the mum for us.
Yeah, yeah.
She can bring some female values.
I think it's important.
So what you say that ah, I'm a bad dad and an okay coach,
but to coach your kids is hard
because your kids, if they don't perform,
then you have to...
I don't look forward to
when I'm gonna kick them out of the team for instance.
[GROANS]
So, I have a problem with my hip.
I have small, like, micro fractures in both my legs.
It's like overuse injury so it's... it's gotten worse over time.
My bone is kind of eating itself up
and the doctor is, like, scratching their head,
because they didn't know what it was and they've never seen
a stretcher like this before.
I'm not in the group anymore, it's not so cool.
ANDERS: The future looks like kind of unknown.
The worse-case scenario, we will not be able to qualify for the Games.
That will be really sad,
it's been our goal since we were small kids.
It's really difficult to be trouble
because you are depending so much on the other guy.
It's like the worst nightmare I think.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
We have decided not to have Anders in the tournament.
We just want to...
have him a 100% without injuries, and...
Svein is coming in,
Christian will play this tournament without Anders.
It was a big disappointment.
It's hard for me to sit here and see this game
because I'm, I'm going crazy.
Of course it will not be the same not having Anders on the court.
Me and Svein we will do our best
but we will not be able to play on the same level
and it's kind of sad.
We just have to do the best we can right now.
BROADCASTER: As more and more travel corridors continue to open up
people are realizing that moving around the world
is not what it used to be.
Long periods of quarantine and regular Covid tests are now the norm
Strange, it's so strange, oh my God.
Look at these infectious linen.
Biohazard waste.
I just got done with my Covid antigen test.
I'm supposed to be in the room for the next 2 days at least,
minimum, until we get the results.
At the end of the day,
I guess this is how things are gonna be for a while.
As far as this new norm, I feel like I'm adapting to it.
I feel like, you know, we have no choice.
[CHUCKLES]
SANTIAGO: We just cannot fly back to our country.
CECILIA: If it hadn't been for the pandemic,
I would have gone back to Argentina, but now we just can't.
We have to do our quarantine there and then a quarantine here in Europe
and that means that, 30 days without sailing.
We cannot stop sailing for a month.
This is typical Ceci, you know,
she brings stuff that I always load
and she never puts everything together, you know.
There's always things coming late that should be at the beginning.
That's typical Ceci.
You know, when you work with a person that is really anxious
and he wants to start loading before everything is ready...
No, no, no, I, no, that's not true.
I ask bring me all the stuff that I load.
Everything is ready, then when I am finishing loading
they bring 3 bags and a bicycle.
For example.
Every time the same, not a single.
It's impossible to work with these little kids.
CECILIA: We are not going through an easy moment now,
relationship, communication, everything is difficult.
It's hard, yes.
[Foreign Language]
We were expecting the container from Japan
and our next training block is in Sicily
and unfortunately in the Customs, the container got on hold.
It's all related to the Covid,
this all, this equipment was in Japan for nothing, for 4 months there.
Facing this
problem and this big thing,
it will make us stronger,
I feel we are coming back in a better shape
than we were before the Covid.
I heard that answer from you before, but I disagree, well, personally,
in my case, I agree with Ceci, we are getting better which is a...
As a team, you know, I feel as a team.
100% we are getting better but I was so confident about our plan
that I would have picked the games to be in time.
Now I have been away from home for many months,
you have a little bit of time to think
and you realize you miss a little bit your house, your home, your people.
Let's talk
There are some days of the campaign that you feel a little bit...
that you need your family, yeah.
Like, we are here right now talking because...
of this one extra year
and if it was not
because of this one extra year
Mica and I had beautiful personal plans together.
Suddenly, I disappear for 6 months
so it's a little bit hard, but...
I think we are doing a great job.
We are trying to...
yeah, to accept the reality and...
we are trying to do our best to be okay.
Of course an athlete I will always be, I love doing sports,
like I would love to continue, I would love to.
But we will also love to be mothers.
Our sport takes a lot of time
I'm always trying to think I should find a way of doing it
but still have time
to be a mum and to have a family.
I don't know if I am going to find that, that way.
I say you that I sometimes think after this I will just
put a coffee bar and sleep in my house
every day, I don't care,
I will do whatever, but I want to be with my family every day.
And then I think, what I am thinking is stupid.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
The idea of pushing hard for one more year
is unbelievable, difficult and hard.
To not be with my sons more often.
It's not that I want to have my family apart,
I wish I could do both things together,
but if we want to achieve our dream, this is what it takes at this stage.
You have to pay a price if your dreams are to win a medal.
[GROANS]
[Foreign Language]
Watching Christian and Svein getting knocked out of the tournament
was of course frustrating, and also
disappointment, I was really hoping
that my injury was gonna be over and it's not.
Injuries are shit always.
You never want to have an injury,
especially not the one that I have
where you don't really know when you get back.
It's really, really frustrating.
BROADCASTER: Covid-19 continues to impact sports
in ways that you might not think.
BROADCASTER: Doctors have seen a rise in athletes getting injured.
BROADCASTER: So many athletes lost conditioning
when Spring sports were cancelled,
leaving them more or less sedentary in lockdown,
while others had been overtraining suffering from...
BROADCASTER: The Pandemic is certainly a contributing factor...
I hurt my calf, mum.
I just can't believe it's happened again.
Day 2 of concussion recovery,
a little bit of a walk and bought myself a sunflower.
AJLA: You have a bad ab.
-Yep. AJLA: Looks good from here though.
WILL: I had an Achilles injury, it's a serious situation.
This extra year, it's not easy.
You must always remember the objective.
I know the mind, so many emotions can stop you, hinder you,
deter you, I can't afford that, I just can't.
It takes a lot of mental strength to be a great athlete.
You're constantly torn between crazy highs of competing
and then super low lows of when you're injured.
You don't realize how tough it actually is
until you actually go through it.
Sport can just be really cruel sometimes.
[PHONE RINGS]
Ten seconds, yeah.
I'll just have to do millions, it's so big.
If I didn't do this, obviously I'd lose my muscle really quickly.
So ah, it is a setback definitely,
having gone backwards, I will not go backwards.
But I'm also not necessarily going forwards.
DAVID: At this point in time, yeah, we are little bit limited
we can still throw to some degree,
but anything involving running, we are a little bit restricted.
In terms of where we start this summer season,
we just have to knock that back another 5 or 5 or 6 weeks or so.
All right, physio.
Relax.
So we have to reign Niamh like
in a really good way, not a bad way, in a very good way,
like she's the epitome of what you want like she's eager to,
to do the session, she really wants to do it
and she'll put all her effort into it.
It's the real fine balances of like managing that,
that will kind of make you the champion that you're gonna be.
DAVID: Take up speed, final run.
NIAMH: Giving up is not an option for me.
If you turn up fit on the day, great.
NIAMH: How long? DAVID: 15 to go.
NIAMH: If you turn up injured, game over.
I've come to Canada because
America isn't the best place right now.
All the clubs have been closed, the gyms been closed for a while
and I figured I'd come out here and train and kind of refocus.
To be like mentally and physically ready
is the most important thing
and when the time's ready, I'll be ready.
IGOR: Hit the floor now.
A year ago today, all these guys were gearing up to go to a World Cup
and a week before the World Cup, they all get a letter or call saying
cancel your trip, we're all going into quarantine,
the whole world shuts down.
Athletes love routine, athletes hate when there's a bump in the road,
but if you can't handle here, you're not gonna go very far.
Miles, he's always 110%.
Just look at him, like, he's like, this is it.
So everything that Miles does is a coach's nightmare for kids,
he's like, kids look up to him.
He is like a, an idol,
but everything he is doing, you yell at your kids don't do that
His strength and his weakness is the same thing.
It's his passion.
And when you're way too crazy,
it sometimes bites him in the derrière,
however, that's what makes him
and once he knows when to turn it on at the right time
and usually that is every time, he is unstoppable.
I feel really good, I give him... I attacked him a lot,
some pointers.
It's good sorting the kids out, I love it.
You can see how he is with kids, he fancies a match,
he's working on whatever he needs to work on
and right away giving pointers to the kids.
That is a testament to Miles, he will give back to our community.
I was mad little baby hooligan as a kid.
I got kicked out of like every school.
I was a pain in the ass.
I was a cunt at school, I didn't wanna learn what X was.
I mean, that's why fencing made me sit,
if it wasn't, if I didn't get in trouble
I would never have found the sport that got me out of trouble.
So if I see a kid that wants, you know, a picture
or wants to talk to me about fencing or whatever it might be,
I always do my best
to be a role model to them, 'cause I never had anybody growing up so...
Honestly my dad, I don't really have that many memories of him,
like, maybe I was like 4 he was around.
My mum had like 4 jobs, I know it was stressful for her for sure,
but she never showed us that.
I haven't talked to my dad in 15 years, right,
but that's great because I know exactly...
I know exactly the dad I won't be, right, so everything's for a reason.
If I had a father who was there, I probably wouldn't be this driven,
so it's a blessing and a curse. Double sided sword as they say.
I see my plan in front of me, he's got the perfect life,
he's got nothing to fight for really.
I've got everything you know, people to prove,
I've got so much more in my tank than them.
COACH: Good. Fastly, fastly, fastly.
Good. Along... Good.
Other direction, fast feet, stay balanced...
As you get tired. Quick feet, stay balanced. Good.
Nice.
MILES: Competition coming up in Qatar
is our first competition since the pandemic happened.
COACH: Good. And back up. Good.
I'm taking this as a massive life jacket
and I just wanna compete, get to do what I love.
It's been a long time coming and it's going to be a little bit weird
because most people haven't been training as much
or having competitions but
I think we're going to see who's been ready,
who hasn't been ready, it's going to be interesting.
COACH: Drive, drive, drive... Chest up. Drive.
My goal is obviously to put it all,
things I've done to the test you know, I've been training
and working, I really hope that things that I'm doing
are going to surprise people.
And ultimately get the result that I want.
I want to smash everybody,
I don't just want to win, I want to smash everybody.
I've started training in Sheffield,
I've changed my set up,
changed like physios, changed everything really.
In Dubai, when I kind of tore my hamstring
it was like a bit of a moment
where I kind of like reflected and thought
well, I don't think things are quite right.
It's super tough getting back up when you keep getting caught,
but every single day we're trying to progress and move forward.
So now I need to train super hard.
I feel so sick.
I haven't felt like this in a long long time,
I haven't done that fast and that long in ages.
So I feel a bit, yeah.
Forgot how painful it is.
It's not glamorous one bit, it's literally blood sweat and tears.
You have to have focus points in the most mundane tedious things
because otherwise you won't do anything.
There's no emotions, you just have to be very robotic,
and I think I'm quite good at that.
ANDERS: This training camp is
the preparation for tournaments in Mexico.
We're here with 2 really big teams to practice with Switzerland and Czech.
I'm not sure if my hip is gonna get better or worse,
just want to have that feeling that "okay, it's going to be fine".
I want to have some more confidence than what we have right now.
Good to see you, man!
So hot!
CHRISTIAN: First of all is to test Anders hip to see if he can jump
as much as we need him to do.
It's really important for us to find a rhythm
and find the confidence that we know that we had before.
Of course, I'm a little bit anxious.
I'm crossing my fingers that he will be ready.
ANDERS: Working on defense
the things that we are normally good at
is still there and that's good to feel.
The hip is also feeling good and that's the most important thing.
It felt like we were back on track.
The chemistry is on point,
You can see it in his eyes that he is really hungry
to play beach volleyball and that's, that's a great sign.
We only get one week so,
I'm really not sure how we're gonna go.
I don't know where our level is at,
and where the level of the rest of the world is.
I want to see if we can have the level
that we still had before the pandemic hit.
It's a really important event.
BROADCASTER: In many parts of the world
some sports competitions are finally able to resume
Time to go to World Championships.
Off to the stadium we go
BROADCASTER: In New South Wales, project restart is go
as the Sprint Kayak season resumes.
To think that we haven't raced for a whole 12 months
until now is pretty crazy
Being injured sucks.
I feel a lot of guilt and punishment.
Really weird to be back.
Got hit directly in the knee caps,
I got severe blunt trauma knee cap. Somebody hit a foil to my knee,
which ultimately is a one month to two month recovery.
I didn't break the knee cap but it's pretty close.
So put things into perspective right and now I'm here just chilling
and just gonna do my best to get better every day.
It teaches you a lot of patience, this sport,
so I just keep getting stronger.
I'll see my coach, my friends, my girl, I'll be good.
It's all mental.
And if you realize that it's something you can't control
then it's easier to process, so.
Something good's going to happen, you've got to just stay,
stay focused, that's all.
NIAMH: Hiya. I'm alright. WOMAN: Are you OK?
It was Sunday morning training, I was running round the track
and I finished my rep and I just couldn't walk.
It got stiffer and stiffer and stiffer
and it was kind of like super sore,
so it was just one little training session
and it just dawned on me, I was like my whole season's done.
I couldn't quite believe it,
suddenly the calendar just drops,
there's no competitions, there was nothing.
It's crazy how different life is than I had planned.
Now I need to get back on track to have a long career.
The positive that does come out of it
is I will be stronger mentally physically,
I will be a stronger athlete.
I know that when I finish my career,
when I'm at 30 and look back, I'll think thank god that happened
because I had 3 years out but then I could just restart
and then the year 2022 was so much better.
I made it. Was a long trip but I'm here.
After almost, what four months, right?
When you always dream you're in the airport
and you're like "hi" and music sounds
and the camera swerves around you, well, no.
It was just like "hi" wait, alcohol, "hi" and we shook hands.
It was kind of strange in this new world
that we are living,
but still it was beautiful
Within our philosophies, it's not allowed to be someone else here.
I know it would be hard for Ceci to keep the two balls in the air.
But...
Santi will have his point of view about it
and I will have my point of view.
For me, getting to have Mica here will help me now
to be a better sailor in this last part of the year
and it's helping me to push harder.
For him, there's no excuses, there are no excuses.
But I feel I am human
and I want to be a human, more human every day.
Obsessive
like Santi the best example.
It is a big challenge to work with someone like that because
I am one that wants to balance a little bit her life,
of course I understand that
to achieve what we want to achieve, you need to be obsessive, obsessive
but he's in another level of obsession.
We have a friendship relationship
but a very clear cut and then professional relationship
and that relationship sometimes is not easy.
And, yeah, that's like any other team.
You are working to improve that relationship and you get better.
It's my job to understand
I am going to be a better sailor tomorrow
if today I go for one hour
and do whatever I want to do for an hour
or not
and I have to do what is better for me
to be able to sailor tomorrow in a boat.
MILES: I'm finally gonna meet Ramala
to finally get the foundation stuff off the ground.
She's in charge of my foundation, she's incredible,
she's the one that puts everything together
and kind of creates this deck for me.
- Ramala. - What's up?
- How are you? - Good, how are you?
It's been a bloody year.
Where are we at?
This time has given me real clarity on my vision.
I had one of those, not existential crisis.
I was like sitting in quarantine, I was like what's my purpose.
And then I was like,
my purpose is to give kids opportunity that I never had right
'cause I was lucky enough to slip through the cracks
and be successful, but it wasn't easy.
And I want to create a full on institution
where kids from all walks of life can feel comfortable.
I love that... I think that's very compelling,
I think you have a very clear vision with it.
I think it was 2 years ago I was like reading my DMs
and this mother messaged me, a mixed-race kid,
she was like my son was getting bullied at school for fencing,
people were making fun of him and then he showed them
a picture of you and that changed the next day.
And I cried I'm not going to lie.
I was like, woah, this is bigger than any medal you could win.
You're literally giving a kid hope right
and I was like that's it and then that's what we're going to do.
We're going to give these kids hope.
I think this could be something that's going to change kid's lives
and that's what I think is bigger than just me.
BROADCASTER: In some parts of the world professional sport
is finally on its way back
A few lucky fans returning to stadiums,
a chink of light after an extraordinary year.
BROADCASTER: Something to lift our spirits, something to rally round,
sports is what does that for millions of people...
ASHWINI: Right now I'm excited and energetic and looking forward.
POLE: Right now were about 3 months out from the Games,
honestly I'm not trying to do anything too crazy
you know I know what I am I know what I'm capable of
I'm just gonna go out there and seize the moment and
try to put on a show.
I feel like this is one of the most amazing summers.
I think it doesn't get any better than being able
to inspire people and just go out there and shine.
COMMENTATOR: It comes down to the final two
to see who will take the gold medal.
Competitors from Norway.
This is the first outing on the world tour
since the tour finals in Rome, 2019.
ANDERS: We went there and didn't expect too much,
just hoping that our level was okay and honestly it was good.
Standing there together with him, it's a really good feeling.
I was watching his face if something is okay or is he in some pain.
We play really good from the beginning.
We won match after match, we were on fire and we were ready
It's just really amazing to be back on the court with Anders.
COMMENTATOR: And finally after an epic battle,
it's Norway that take win Number 11 here in Cancun.
This off season through the pandemic has been so tough.
Hip injury to Anders Mol, it's been a battle through recovery,
they really are at the top of this sport.
We are leaving Mexico with two wins.
COMMENTATOR: It's a straight sets win for Norway,
another gold medal for this remarkable duo.
The Vikings are back playing our best volleyball that we have ever played.
I've had this dream of being the best player of the world
for so long now, and now I'm living the dream.
CHRISTIAN: It's been a really difficult year
to be back on the level we are today in Mexico,
it was just like a fairy tale with a happy ending.
MAN: Congrats, guys! ANDERS: Thank you, thank you.
CECILIA: Whenever you decide you want to be on a campaign,
there's no opportunities to doubt, if you doubt, you're out of the game
SANTIAGO: I don't think there would be many women out there
that can be from June to December without seeing her girlfriend
when they were dreaming about having a baby.
I don't think I could find any other partner
that are willing to do that
and I know I am special
and to find another crazy one
to to understand what we are playing
is just amazing.
CECILIA: Always in life when you make a decision,
you gain and you lose.
But after making the decision,
the important thing is to stop thinking about what you lose
and start thinking about what you gain.
Sailing is a very special sport.
When the water hits the hull,
when you feel the wind in your face,
when you have to adapt yourself,
face those big storms out there,
it's like when you have to adapt yourself
to what's happening in life.
And at the end of the storm, we feel stronger.
I am optimistic for what comes ahead
because I believe in us.
SANTIAGO: You have your ups and downs, you know.
But it's a learning experience.
You have different feelings about different things.
I don't know, she may be mad.
There are many ways to win a medal,
there is no one way, there are lots of ways.
We are dreaming for the highest we can get in our sport
and I really believe in our team and I really believe in Ceci.
MILES: So my summer season is over
but this year has made me stronger than I've ever been.
Lockdown has brought back the passion that I have for the game.
I think I appreciate there's other things in life,
not only standing on top of the podium
with the trophy above your head but also like the small things.
I put the work in, I'm ready.
You know this year has taught me in a lot of ways
of how resilient I am.
I'm completely rebuilding, completely restarting
and obviously that's super exciting.
Didn't realize how lucky we were just to be out there competing.
To have some negative experiences then you for sure appreciate
the positive things a lot more.
It's been a long road, the biggest thing I've taken from this
is that nothing can break me.
Today I feel very privileged
to do what I'm doing and I'm sure the next step will be great as well
CECILIA: We will never know if it was good for us or not this postponement.
I think personally that it made us stronger.