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Renowned Saskatchewan Olympian, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, has announced her retirement as an athlete in a heartfelt post published online on Wednesday. The Olympian hailing for Humboldt, Sask., won a bronze medal in the 2016 Rio summer games, but her strength in track and field preceded her Olympic placing. Theisen-Eaton holds the Canadian record for the heptathlon and indoor pentathlon. She placed on the podium at consecutive world championships since 2013, and was a national junior champion in 2006.
In an online post announcing her announcement, the 28-year-old athlete described the panic and adrenaline she’d feel heading in into an 800-metre race – and the excitement to compete again that would no doubt follow. This feeling didn’t happen, however, after she finished in Rio. She wrote that “I took three months to completely get away. I didn’t think about those feelings. I didn’t want to make any decisions based on my mental exhaustion,” she wrote.
According to the athlete, she was resistant to start again as the 2017 training season drew near. She elucidated that “I gave the last four years everything I could. I put my life on hold. Track and field was the priority before everything else: my family, my friends, my marriage, my future.” According to Theisen-Eaton, “this is something I chose to do and I don’t regret it for a second. It made me happy to pursue something I was so passionate about.”
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