This is the review of Unbroken by Katerina Johnson Thompson. The review was made by Runblogrun’s Senior Writer Stuart Wayry.
Unbreakable, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, London. McMilla, 2024
ISBN 9781035055173
Seeing how KJT participates in four Olympic Games, seven world championships, two cooperation games and several European championships, I am authorized to review his book. His history about these events fascinated me, especially how he treated three without jumping to Beijing, hiding in the hotel room until the end of the games and no longer watching the shots.
Photo Credit, Chloe Knott / Team GB
The book is above the average sports autobiography and affects several important issues, including running tensions to reconcile the athletes with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person with a person. As he says, “Women’s athletes and their body relationship are often complicated.” He talks about the need to raise weights, he develops more muscles than his class guys, and that “muscles helped me to succeed in the path.
His story about the 2012 Olympic Games is brilliant. This begins with the fact that he is being attended as a guest audience when he visits athlete village when he was gutting to a athlete every day. His account includes tension between excitement, pressure between pressure and his “introvert struggle”.
By 2013, during his first world champions, tensions were linked to the “young athlete, wanting to study and have fun and to compete there.” As he reached the 2023 World Cup, he reached a better life / sports balance. “I wanted to succeed in Athletics, and I still desperately wanted that gold medal in Budapest, but it was no longer everything or nothing. It would not make me a less man, if it weren’t for it. I discovered who I am as the whole man, not just a athlete, which eventually made me a stronger version of two. ” Add: “What he won for me that day was not my speech. It was my experience. I learned how to use everything I had in my favor. It’s just that you know how you treat you. “
After a good performance at the Rio Olympics, he touched upon the brutal policy of the British Olympic Association, all together to fly home, but divide them. “Among those who conquered medal and not amputated. The first group was introduced into a business class, and we, the rest, immediately became economy, next time to cry our eyes and pine. “
He sincerely writes about racism and explains how. “During my whole life, I have always felt that I am the only one like me in some places. ONLY ONLY IN THE MINISTRY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND FREE AND FEE Feel out enough to care about … But I often remember the young girl and athlete I was. He is afraid to stand out, confused by his difference, I am desperate to merge, and I see how far I have reached. “
Like many athletes, he also criticizes the uniform of the Olympic team. “Something that did not help for sure was the outfit. That Olympic outfits are mostly sprayed. I always have to raise 2 sizes that automatically put you in bad progress when you have to feel the best. “
Another important issue that he raises refers to the mental side of sports. “I know that there is an important conversation here, as many athletes still feel that they cannot talk about mental health, which prevents significant progress in this area. Silence around the topic scares me. “
Remarkable book.
