\u201cIt\u2019s the first time since Budapest [in 2023] where Keely has turned up to a championship, 100 per cent healthy \u2013 even in Paris [while winning Olympic gold] she had a bit of a niggle and missed some of the winter,\u201d said Painter. \u201cLast year hurt more than anything because we saw she was in world-record shape and then to get the injury [before her Keely Klassic race in February] was like a death in the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Painter\u2019s sister owns a crystal shop and he even bought Hodgkinson a 40kg Himalayan salt lamp in the hope that it would ease her self-confessed mood-swings. Painter, a straight-talking rugby league player from Wigan, even had a crystal next to his own bed in Torun this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also about making the human happy \u2013 if they\u2019re in a happy place then they\u2019re going to perform well,\u201d he said. \u201cShe [Hodgkinson] is just in a very happy place at the moment. Relationships-wise, she\u2019s moving house, so that\u2019s exciting, when you have all those things coming together. Some people have got the science, and they can\u2019t connect with the individual. Some people are great with the connection, and don\u2019t have the science.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meadows added: \u201cI\u2019m very analytical. I was a bit of a robot as a runner. Georgia\u2019s exactly the same; she\u2019s a student of the sport. Keely\u2019s the free spirit \u2013 you have to keep things flexible for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beating the boys and inspiring the girls<\/p>\n
Training in the group is largely mixed, meaning Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell are regularly keeping pace with outstanding male runners. Then there is the fact that they are themselves training together day in, day out. Not many Olympic medallists would have welcomed a potential rival inside her camp but, even after being very narrowly beaten at the World Championships 800m last year by Hunter Bell, Hodgkinson seems happy with the company and competition. They often share rooms and, when not going stride-for-stride in training, are cheering the other on from track-side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the first time since Budapest [in 2023] where Keely has turned up to a championship, 100 per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[5654,64,63,784,275985,588,85,156,14059,9737,75002],"class_list":["post-559135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-keely-hodgkinson","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-top-story","tag-womens-sport","tag-world-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}