Penny Oleksiak is back in the pool this week for the Canadian swimming trials after taking a much-needed break.
So the teenager, whose life was upended after she won four Olympic swimming medals in whirlwind six days in 2016, took a break.
"That was really good for me, I guess I got to do whatever I wanted for a month and I travelled with my sister and went to concerts with my friends and it was just really worth it," Oleksiak said. "It was a good cleanse for once. I hadn’t been on vacation for a while." Oleksiak’s busy past couple of years have seen a couple of coaching changes as well. A year after the Olympics, she left Swimming Canada’s high-performance centre and returned to her old coach Bill O’Toole at the Toronto Swim Club.
"Penny obviously, if you look back to 2016, her life changed," Atkinson said. "There were things that Penny has worked through in terms of adjusting to the expectation on a young woman who does a fantastic job representing herself both in training and in competition. And it’s a very different scenario as an Olympic gold medallist going into different competitions throughout the year as it is when you’re a young 15-year-old trying to break through.
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