I have big goals – Georgia Hunter Bell to prove that she is not a wonder of a season

The 1500-meter Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Hunter Bell is ready to leave her story “Parkrun-to-Podium” in the dust.

The 31-year-old man took a five-year interruption of sport, finding his way in the fold of the pair of coaches Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter, who also oversees the 800m Olympic champion, Keely Hodgkinson, after having initially rediscovered the race as a way to get out of the house during the Pandemic Covid-19.

Hunter Bell left his job in software sales to become a full -time athlete in May, saying that bronze at the Paris Games a few months later, and is now watching his first major international title at this week’s European room championships.

“Everyone has their expectations and it’s great, but I’m more, I don’t want to have just a great year and fall,” Hunter Bell told the AP news agency.

“I want to save him like Keely. I think it is the brand of real runners, runners and successful athletes, they can always return and win medals.

“This year, I just have big things I want to achieve.”

Hunter Bell is released this week a film on his unconventional career, which has seen him start as a promising junior athlete and a champion of English schools before reducing her career after an injury fate as an NCAA ATHLETE at the University of California in Berkeley.

But after posting promising moments during the pandemic, she contacted the former Painter coach.

“I have the impression that people think that I have just jogging in Covid and that I found myself on the podium (Olympique),” said Hunter Bell.

“Obviously, 20 years of work that did it. I want people, mainly girls and women, see that there are different paths to achieve what you want to achieve and not exert so much pressure.

“The people who are in the world of work who have had dreams, and they have suspended their passions for life, and they think they will never come back there, or if it has not happened now, it will never do it.

“I have the impression, especially with women, they are told that when you are 30 years old, if you have not understood everything – if you do not have a mortgage and dog and you have babies and you have succeeded in your career – you will never do it.

“And what I found by doing more research is that women are really starting to prosper in their career in their thirties, and it’s the same for me but in the race.”

The European silver silver medalist has exceeded expectations in Paris, where it also set a new British record of 1500m female three minutes 52.61 seconds, and is perhaps the best hope of Great Britain this week in Apedoorn.

Become a full -time athlete – Hunter Bell describes the closure of his work laptop for the last time because “liberating, as a huge weight was removed from my shoulders” – allowed him to incorporate more strength and packaging in training and simply rest.

“I think I only realized how unbearable it was when I stopped,” she added.

In December, coach Meadows told PA: “Keely is one of these athletes once in generation. We probably have two in our hands, because Georgia could probably have had the trajectory that Keely had from an early age, but she returned and she reached her tops in a very unusual way, but she did it. “”

It is possible that training partners Hunter Bell and Hodgkinson can even present themselves against each other in the 800m soon, with Hunter Bell and her team of coaches “at this stage not to exclude” the idea if she seeks to qualify for the two events during the September world championships.

“(Keely) is able to publish the world record, definitively,” said Hunter Bell. “And I hope to be just behind her in the race, so I found myself in her time.

“I think she will always fight me in the 800, (but) I hope I could get closer to it.”