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Charlotte Purdue has had a tough year, although you wouldn’t know it by talking to her.
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After a couple of years of being dealt considerable blows – think being separated from her coach by a global pandemic, being injured in the run up to the Tokyo Olympic trials, being overlooked for Olympic qualification and having her appeal rejected – she stills comes across as one of the most friendly and forward-looking people you could hope to meet.
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Now, you may say that athletes are trained to be strong and positive mentally, and that knockbacks and resilience come with the territory, but there’s something a bit different about Charlotte. She’s determined, she’ll stand her ground, but her good humour and easy nature seem to go deeper than what you learn on the sports psychologist’s couch. It’s not that she doesn’t feel the pain of missed opportunities and the frustrations that come with being an elite athlete – be they injuries or the infuriatingly complex and sometimes nonsensical rules of qualification – it’s that she seems to hold them as lightly as possible.
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