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How duo Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe are pioneering the way for Team GB
Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe are proper on the cash
The Olympic inventive swimming scene has lengthy been dominated by groups from the Individuals’s Republic of China, Russia, the USA and Japan.
Consequently, inventive swimmers in Nice Britain have usually lacked funding and the additional help wanted for an Olympic Video games marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, Shortman and Thorpe’s spark for the game has by no means gone out.
“I’ve at all times seen the potential,” stated Izzy’s mum Karen, who can be a former inventive swimmer and now the supervisor of the game at UK Aquatics.
“They’ve additionally supported themselves with jobs: teaching, going round to among the golf equipment – a £100 right here and there – usually when they need to be resting, on high of going to college and coaching full-time as nicely. It has been actually robust for them however they’ve by no means misplaced the eagerness.”
In preparation for Paris, the pair have been working with Japanese coach Yumiko Tomomatsu, who they are saying has “taught [them] so many issues in life”.
Given Nice Britain’s historical past within the self-discipline, there is no such thing as a doubt {that a} podium end for Shortman and Thorpe is an extended shot – however what provides them hope is their willpower and drive to jot down themselves into Olympic historical past.
Shortman stated: “Gold was as soon as extra of a dream than a aim, however we have now now obtained our sights firmly set on it – completely.”
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