Chemist Warehouse Catalogue - 11/02-24/02/2021 (Page 4)

feature this month taking the plunge derailed by covid-19 has made olympian cate campbell stronger than ever words siobhan duck here's no moment more magical for cate campbell than when she first hits the water and disappears to "it's like coming home." cate explains and for the australian swimmer there was no greater homecoming than that first plunge when her poolfinally opened after the covid-19 lockdown ordinarily the water-loving cate would head straight from a lengthy pool session to the beach to enjoy her other passions for but with gyms and pools closed and living too far from the beach to train in the about how she stayed fit last year bottles of water as weights and started backyard training with her housemates "as olympians we are experts in lockdowns because that's essentially what we do ahead of the games." she says with hand sanitiser everywhere and we are rarely out of the house after nine at night "but not being able to train in a pool was my life i have ever gone without swimming adding to the stress of being kept out of the water was not knowing if or when the tokyo games would go ahead "we spend four years preparing to be in peak form for just a few seconds of completely removed and then rescheduled is difficult," she says feeling extraordinarily privileged to be part of the team headed to japan this year "to be part of the first post-covid games is really special because we as a world be such a celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit to overcome something that could have brought us to our knees now the eldest member of the aussie games armed with the wisdom of her experiences - both good and bad - and with no plans to retire any time soon there was the remarkable high of sharing seem too far-fetched to be true" she cate now wants to encourage all standing alongside bronte on the dais their annual routine would do at the games it was never about protection for her skin cate winning a medal or bronte winning "i have freckly skin that burns easily got the better of her and she placed sixth with avéne's broad spectrum uvb there were just a few hundredths of uva sunscreen 'their sunscreen is great for sensitive "the days - and even months - cate is also using her profile to shine thing is failure is something all human beings while she was hurt by the abuse she us to talk about it and learn from it received from the swimming community why she shares her melanoma diagnosis in 2018 after a chance encounter with "i was lucky it was stage one." she has her sights firmly set on tokyo from the 2016 rio kayaking during lockdown photography christopher morris exteoizolow-vo