Athletes like Adeleke don’t come around that often, athletes who naturally belong and thrive in the thin air of the larger global events
with a team silver medal in the 4x400m women’s relay on Wednesday evening, some of those who were denied a platform by the electorate in the recent local and European elections fled back to the one that will rarely refuse them access. X.
Adeleke provided the illusion of effortlessness and control, her upright gait and those endlessly long legs delivering in each run what she had promised over the last 12 months. Hands resting on her hips, her momentary expression of hurt and annoyance that Polish track star Natalia Kaczmarek had the speed to run her down on the home straight to win gold, was not just a snapshot of abandonment but more sharply an image of inner appetite and desire.
Adeleke then opened our eyes, explaining that she and her coach had decided to train through the European Championships and save the taper for the Olympics. A bold and calculated risk. It made for an unsavoury but real-time backdrop to the week, a young black, Irish success story commanding the narrative in Rome and burning her name deeper into the sporting tree as the country rejected the people who despise her for who and what she is. It also made us pause for a moment.
, athletes who feel and believe it is their destiny, who can see it, who demand attention and take control and ownership of the space they occupy.
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