PERTH, Australia (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic ended any chance of Rachael Lynch competing for Olympic gold in Tokyo this year. Now she’s switching into the medical mode to take on the virus.
Lynch, the goalkeeper for Australia’s women’s field hockey team, is a registered nurse.
So after the Olympics were postponed to July of next year, Lynch applied to work as a registered nurse at two COVID-19 clinics in the Western Australia state capital.
Lynch was already working a day a week in a neuro-rehabilitation ward — part of her of work-life balance with training for elite sport.