Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw wonders if it was worth it: "Winning that bronze medal has damaged me."

Blah Blah Blah. Go arrest the person who had the gun to your head the entire time.

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There isn’t anything healthy about what is required to be one of the best in the world at a sport.

I like watching pros compete, but for me it wouldn't be worth it.

I even helped a top college runner decide not to go pro. I told her what pro life was like and she said it's not worth it and she quit track as soon as she finished her NCAA eligibility. She ended up getting a nice normal office job and she is very happy with her decision.

At least Holly Bradshaw got an Olympic medal out of it. But many other pros make a lot of sacrifices for very little money and they never make an Olympic team or a World team.

I think anyone who has played a sport at a high level can relate.

Why are you guys such horrible people?

At least you're not overly PC

The Sports Psychologist making a self portrait case study of herself. She is trying to build her professional credentials. Nothing here except babble from an athlete who is still at it. Not enough fear to prevent her from competing at Paris 2024.

You can't base someone's health off of how they look.

Some elite athletes like to speak up about how hard their enormously privileged lives are.

You don't know much about professional track and field athletes if you think that most of them are leading "enormously privileged lives."

Maybe they need to spend a week working at McDonalds or at an Amazon warehouse. Or maybe you do.

This isn’t an athlete I had ever heard of before, but I really like her take on the revealing kits that are still the norm in the sport.

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Holly Bradshaw: Skimpy kit is discouraging women from competing, Olympic bronze medallist says

The 29-year-old Team GB athlete tells Sky News how she is pushing back against women's sports simply expecting athletes to wear skimpy kit.

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No, she was not particularly skinny when she got her bronze medal.

I can’t imagine if the heavy-framed male athletes had to run in a speedo — Joe Klecker for example?

I'd never heard of her, but her choice, if it's that bad stop whinging and give it away, then I'll never hear of her again.

No one's expecting them to wear skimpy kit, again her choice not too.

Some people have a victim complex. Imagine if she had to work at a minimum wage job her life instead. Would probably get pregnant 7 times to get maternity leave and complain everyday.

And yes, as an athlete you need a lot more calories than a sedentary person . Maybe she's just a 300 pound woman wannabe who's currently "starving" herself. She never starved because if she would actually experience that in Africa, it would be unbearable for her. This is like listening to a prototypical Karen saying her life is difficult.

It's a matter of perspective really.

Some would say that sacrifice, discipline and fully applying yourself to a goal is the thing that gives your life meaning - and with it a deep sense of fulfillment.

I'm always sceptical of "health", as defined by the mainstream, especially when the average person is fat, slobby and miserable.

I'm surprised you didn't recognize the name and know the body build. This isn't high jumping. I can't think of any top female pole vaulter who is rail thin. They are all 130 to 150 pound range with Murto probably the largest frame.

Track is not like other individual sports like golf or tennis where sponsorship alone is lucrative for even the fringe players that will keep them in the sport. If a world class vaulter like Bradshaw is wondering if it's worth it then I believe her and don't blame her. Pretty much only track nuts care beyond Olympic years. Angelica Bengtsson was a popular and comely vaulter who retired at 28 because she felt she had gone as far as she could and wanted to get on with her life.

In any case Bradshaw has not retired.