London 2012 dreams turn into a nightmare
The photo montage to 2012 says it all. Louise Jukes has pinned her dream to her bedroom wall. The faces of family and friends make up the numerals of the year in which she expected to be representing her country at the London Olympics.
But the bigger picture has become horribly blurred for the 24-year-old from Ipswich, who is one of hundreds of British athletes left in limbo by this week’s decision to freeze public funding for 12 Olympic and Paralympic sports after a shortfall in the £300 million campaign for medals in 2012.
Unlike most, who have been commiserating with loved ones, Jukes has been left dangling hundreds of miles from home on the outskirts of Aarhus, a coastal town in Denmark, after Great Britain embarked on an interesting sporting experiment. The former physiotherapist is among 30 British handball players who dropped everything to live in a country where this fast contact sport - a bizarre game of catch to the few in Britain who have even seen it - commands its own slot on prime-time television.
more: timesonline.co.uk
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