Time can feel like another dimension for Olympians, at least for those who study at the university while they participate in their sport.
British gymnast Luke Whitehousewho competes on the World University Games 2025 In Essen, Germany, from Tuesday (July 22) will complete his three-year sports and exercise therapy course at Leeds Beckett University in 2026, which started in November 2021.
That is five years before counting.
But if you are an elite turn that strives at your first Olympic Games in what the last year of your diploma should be, something must give.
“I experienced a year last year (in 2024),” Whitehouse said Olympics.com At the first British championships of the new Olympic cycle in March. “So I took two years, took a year for the competitions and then I went back.”
The Sabbatical of Whitehouse from his studies proved successful.
Initially not entirely contrary to a place in the men’s team of five people for Paris 2024 after he was not chosen for the same year European Championships Whitehuse made Whitehouse in May the best of a series of suitable moments that presented themselves.
Whitehouse just had second in the Doha World Cup At the end of April he received the call to say that triple Olympic champion Max Whitlock was injured and would not compete in the continental championships.
Whitehouse flies directly from Qatar’s capital to Rimini on the east coast of Italy and joined the team.
Days later he won his second consecutive European floor title and two months after it was announced as part of the group on board the train to Paris as part of Team GB.
As sixth in the floor final during his debut Olympic Games and close to the stage in the fourth place in the men’s team competition in the Bercy Arena, Whitehouse had just reached a child’s dream.
“It was actually absolutely incredible,” Whitehouse told Olympics.com to experience in Paris 2024.
“I didn’t know what to expect, but the Olympic Games is something I have always dreamed of since I have been a little boy, so to reach that dream, competed in an Olympic Games, competed alongside my youth hero, Max Whitlock, that was incredible, and yes, the floor finale was also incredible.”
And yet, despite all these successes, it was a relatively deducted moment that his coach, Andy Butcher, made very proud.
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