Canadian runner Melissa Bishop believes she’ll be stronger with baby
TORONTO — Newly married and focused on her four-year plan into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Melissa Bishop had planned to put kids on hold.
But Canada’s world silver medallist in the 800 metres is due to give birth any day now, and believes she could become a stronger athlete as a mom.
“I think so. Talk to me after labour,” she laughed, in a phone call from her Windsor, Ont., home. “I’m so used to just training full-time, and having that time to myself and having that time to recover from workouts, and I know it won’t be that, and I fully expect that it’s going to be very difficult to come back in the first six months or so.
“But I think it’s just going to be a new normal and something I’m just going to adjust to. I think I’ll be OK. I think I’ll definitely have someone else in my corner, and someone else to fight for, that’s the most exciting part.”