Canada’s Blythe Hartley Dives for Late Brother

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, February 8. BLYTHE Hartley, an Olympic bronze medalist along with partner Emilie Heymans on the platform synchro at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has dedicated this diving season to her late brother, according to an article in The Canadian Press.

Hartley's brother, Strachan, passed away last summer after succumbing to non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

"I'm never going to stand on the board and think the world is going to end if I miss this dive, which is kind of an attitude I used to have," Hartley told The Canadian Press. "I'm never going to have that again because I've lived something that, to me, was the worst possible thing you could live. Now it's more an inner desire to do well and be my best. If I don't do well, then I'll be disappointed, but I gave my best and that's what matters. I'm looking forward to be competing with that attitude."

Full text of The Canadian Press feature.

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