Winter Olympics: Team Australia to compete with heavy hearts after tragic death of aerial skier Brittany George
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The Australian camp went through devastating news ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China aerial skier Brittany George was mysteriously found dead. The youngster was found dead in Brisbane last week, six days after she was missing, as per reports.
Notably, George competed at many major international competitions for her nation, being part of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia from 2017 to 2020. However, a serious back injury forced her into early retirement and her dream of competing at this year’s Winter Games was crushed.
A lot was going on in the life of the 24-year-old as she had spoken candidly about her mental health struggles just a few months ago.
“It has literally been my whole life, I’ve been ‘the athlete’ from when I was 2 until when I was 20 or 21,” George told the ‘Coaching the Mind’ podcast in October.
“I did not have an identity. I was labelled the athlete from a very young age and just rode with it.
“I put everything in. My injuries (and) my schoolwork went second-hand, everything went second-hand to sport … It was absolutely all or nothing.”
“I struggle every day to know who is Brittany”
Brittany’s appearance on the podcast had indicated that she wasn’t mentally fine and a lot of questions keep on roaming in her mind.
“You’re an athlete but who am I? Who am I as a person? Who is Brittany? I don’t know that,” she said.
“I struggle every day to know who that is.”
Meanwhile, George’s father Constantine Gus said that his daughter was in contention to represent Australia in Beijing but the back injury rued her chances.
“She had the athletic prowess to adopt anything she tried and excel with it, but had that extra driven mentality to perfect her craft, which not many people will ever have,” he told the Courier Mail.
“Britt was the most amazing, beautiful person from the very moment she was born. She shone like the brightest purest star, brought here from the heavens,” he added.
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