It was the first time she’d ever laid eyes on an athletics track. “I remember watching it thinking, 'that’s incredible. “I just thought, wow,” the 27-year-old Nielsen told from the Saint Polten training ground in Austria, where she and her twin sister Lina Nielsen are currently based. On the screen, is the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the women’s 800m is getting underway.Īs the athletes tear off from the start line, beginning their chase around the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in the Chinese capital, Nielsen finds herself captured by a feeling of amazement. It begins with her aged 12, sitting in front of her television set. The memory is one so formative Great Britain’s Laviai Nielsen says she’ll never forget it.
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