The Mental Health Toll Of The 'COVID-19 Olympics'

Reaching the Olympic or Paralympic Games is one of the hardest things an athlete will ever achieve, but no-one could have predicted just how much tougher it would be in the middle of a global pandemic to make it to the delayed Tokyo 2020 events.

To find out just how much hard work athletes put in to their mental wellbeing as well as their physical performance in these extraordinary times, The Quicky speaks to two of Australia's greatest female athletes, and an expert in mental health in sport.

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CREDITS 

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Guests:

Mary Spillane - Mental Heath Lead at the Australian Institute of Sport

Lauren Jackson - Australia's most highly decorated basketballer and four-time Olympian

Danni Di Toro - Para-table tennis player and the co-captain of the Australian Paralympic Team, headed to her seventh Paralympics in Tokyo. She is also the Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Manager for Paralympics Australia

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