“I’ve just been like this my whole life,” the Olympic gold medallist says. The doctor gently said he would advise Drouin to shut it down for the season if not for the Rio Games. “But given it was an Olympic year, I wasn’t going to do that or at least I wasn’t going to do it yet,” Drouin says. ‘I knew that the adrenalin and the pressures from being at the Olympic Games, they would help me jump those higher heights that I needed,” he says. Derek Drouin holds the title of Olympic champion, world champion, Commonwealth Games champion and Pan-Am Games champion in high jump.

Source: National Post September 30, 2016 23:37 UTC