High jumper Amy Pejkovic planning to overcome Commonwealth Games heartache
SHE was forced to pull out of the Commonwealth Games with a knee injury after missing the London Olympics due to a brain tumour, but devastated high jumper Amy Pejkovic is already formulating a plan to be ready for the Tokyo Olympics.
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DEVASTATED not to be competing in the Commonwealth Games, high jumper Amy Pejkovic has her sights set on representing Australia at the Tokyo Olympics in two year’s time.
The 25-year-old’s hopes of competing at the London Olympics were shut down when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour six years ago. And she’d been hoping to represent Australia on home soil on the Gold Coast but was forced to pull out of competition last month due to complications with a knee injury.
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“I am devastated I am not competing,” Pejkovic told Games Confidential at the Longines Records Club marquee.
“You’ve got to put the past in the past. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. It is cliche but it is so true. I would love to make Tokyo, that is the goal. Ideally I would have made the Games but it wasn’t meant to be. It is what it is, that is life.”
Pejkovic, who is recently single after splitting from GWS Giants boyfriend Adam Tomlinson, will attend a number of events throughout the games as a guest of Longines.
She’s particularly keen to be in the stands to see Australia pick up some medals in athletics.
“My health is good,” she said. “I have my yearly MRIs now, the next one is coming up in June.”
Of her single status, Pejkovic said she found interest in her personal life difficult.
“I find it hard but I understand it is part of it all,” she said.
Originally published as High jumper Amy Pejkovic planning to overcome Commonwealth Games heartache
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