Wightman had hoped 2024 was the 12 months the place “all the pieces was going to come back again spherical collectively and it was going to be my finest season” after placing his harm struggles behind him.
“So it’s a horrible approach to finish an Olympic expertise – I did not get to go,” he stated. “For me, it’s now a call of what I do.
“I might simply have been crushed by it and never wished to hold on. However that may’t be how I go away my expertise with the Olympic Video games.
“I’m hoping to attempt to push on for yet another cycle now, which I really feel motivated to go and do moderately than be disenchanted and downbeat. I have to hold that fireplace inside, which I’m glad continues to be there.”
A foot drawback prevented Wightman from defending his world title in 2023 and he then missed the British Olympic trials in June due to a calf harm.
Nonetheless, he obtained a discretionary choose by Crew GB selectors for the 800m earlier than his hopes for Paris have been dashed.
“I believe most likely the cruellest bit was I believed I had my little bit of unhealthy luck and wobble of the summer season once I did not do the trials,” Wightman stated.
“I do not assume I might cope with too many extra large blows like I’ve, so I’m hoping I can have doubtlessly 4 years of unbroken coaching and racing, which is what I desperately want.”
Wightman is within the sport to chase championships and medals.
“I nonetheless imagine I can do this and I imagine I might have achieved that these previous few years, however I simply have not been given the possibility to indicate it, so that’s the cruellest bit,” he added.
“So it’s about ensuring I show I can nonetheless do it and show that each one their laborious work hasn’t gone to waste.”
