We arrived in the village a week before opening ceremony. We needed to come early so that we could adapt to the environment and get the part where we all get distracted out of the way! Being such a young team and the fact that this was our first Olympics, it was inevitable that we would get distracted. What did we get distracted by? Well there was the Olympic atmosphere, the receiving of our uniforms, the endless amounts of free food in the dining hall and the fact that people like Roger Federer were walking around! But we were lucky that Peggy had done such a great job in the preperation camp before hand, because we were prepared for these distractions (except Roger!!) and knew how to handle them. So as quickly as we had lost it, we regained our focus!
We got stuck into training straight away and things looked good. The equipment was exsactly the same as what we had been training on at home, things felt normal and we weren't too jet lagged. Two days into training we suffered a huge blow to the team. A team mate injured her foot quiet seriously. This tested our teams strength and ability to pull together and overcome this obstacle. We're lucky that we are such a close team and we gel well together. This made it easier for us to construct and follow a new plan.
So we left the past in the past and continued to prepare for our Olympic debut!
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