Rosie Ready: Olympic champ MacLennan back in form ahead of world championship
TORONTO — With two Olympic titles under her belt, Canadian trampolinist Rosie MacLennan is taking the long view this quadrennial as she looks ahead to the Tokyo Games.
MacLennan overcame injuries in the leadup to the 2016 Rio Olympics before defending her title. With an eye on 2020, she ended her season prematurely last fall to let her body fully heal.
It has been a slow but steady return to form. MacLennan finally felt like her normal self again at a World Cup in Portugal in early October and is confident ahead of next week’s world championship in Russia.
“It was quite a long process,” MacLennan said. “But I wanted to take the time and do it right to give me more of that long-term stability and strength that I would need over the course of the next year-and-a-half or two years.”