thank you Captain obvious...yes you have to be healthy to be an Olympian... Very insightful info
You still don't understand. It's not just about being healthy in Olympic year.
Yohan Blake peaked at 21/22. Second fastest man ever over 100/200m. 1 World Gold and 2 Olympics silvers all done between 2011-2012. 2013 he suffers a hamstring injury and has never ran a sub 9.90 time in 100m again and only 1 sub 20 200m time or won another individual medal at the World and Olympics since 2012
Aries Merritt in 2012 won the Olympic gold and broke the WR in 110mh. He also ran 6 sub 13 sec times that year before breaking the WR making it 7. In 2013 he got a rare kidney disease he recovered and returned to racing in 2015. He won a bronze medal but has never ran a sub 13 110mh time since 2012.
The misfortune that happened to Blake and Merritt happened 3 years before the Rio Olympics. The injury and illness impacted the rest of their careers and haven't been the same since.