Pushing through the pain for Tokyo 2020

The trend toward high performance equipment for the Olympic Games has turned the focus from athleticism to injury. For the Men’s and Women’s Skiff, the muscles and ligaments get wracked. On the Mixed Multihull, the blades are a bit more lethal.

All three events are at odds with the conditions of Sagami Bay which can kick up the kind of chop that can turn Tokyo 2020 into a race of survival. But at least for Kiwi sailor Erica Dawson, a miraculous recovery from a broken leg will allow her to fight the fight.

Dawson and teammate Micah Wilkinson had been training on their Nacra 17 catamaran alongside the Australian team in the build up to the Games in June when Dawson fell off the boat, hit the rudder and broke the fibula in her left leg…

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