Tokyo 2020: The highs and lows NICOLE ROACHE, MARKETING MANAGER
Coming off the high of competing in an Olympic final, to two weeks of almost solitary confinement in hotel quarantine in Sydney, was perhaps the most difficult experience of Angus Widdicombe’s (OGC 2012) life, and perhaps epitomises the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – a double-edged sword. Schedules and plans were sidelined as the Games were postponed for a year and athletes all over the world were locked down away from competition and training. Angus explains, “To be honest, I was probably luckier than anyone else in
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Victoria because I came home for the first lockdown and moved to Anglesea where I had all the training equipment I needed. I just trained, did a bit of work in data entry and hung out down there with my girlfriend. There were certainly much worse places to be. Once the lockdown
ended, I went back to the Reinhold Batschi National Training Centre in Canberra, where I have been for the past six years. I was there from lockdown 2.0 until the Games. We were super lucky because we could still work and get out and about. I always looked at that as a
