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Caden Cunningham single-minded in pursuit of Olympic gold as Jade Jones gets nod over Aaliyah Powell in taekwondo squad

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Caden Cunningham greeted confirmation that he had been selected to represent Great Britain in the Olympic taekwondo tournament with a satisfied smile and a desire to get straight back into training.

For despite only being 21, this single-minded athlete from Huddersfield has been planning his rise to the Olympics for nearly half his life. Even when he was undergoing separate surgeries to repair a damaged ACL and then a foot injury in the last two years, setbacks that still could not stop him winning gold in the heavyweight division at the European Games last autumn, he was not distracted from the mission at hand.

Selection for the Olympics just reaffirms that. There was never really a doubt in my mind that I was going to get to this one. “All the little bumps in the road you go through just make it all the more worthwhile. Once I qualified it was a case of ‘okay, cool, let’s get back into training’.” Given that drive, it is little surprise what the Olympic debutant’s ambition is for the 80kg competition in Paris on Saturday, August 10. “I’m going there to win, 100 per cent.

 

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