Child to miss indoor season to concentrate on Rio
BySportsbeat
Published 05/10/2015 at 12:02 GMT
With the last 12 months having not gone exactly as planned, hurdler Eilidh Child admits she has already laid down a plan of attack in order to return to peak form next year.
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The 28-year-old came into 2015 as the reigning European 400m hurdles champion while she also pocketed a Commonwealth Games silver for Scotland during the summer of 2014.
However she was not able to transfer that onto the World stage this summer, finishing sixth in the final of the World Championships in Beijing.
Child, who made the semi-finals at London 2012, put it down to difficulties with her stride pattern.
And Rio 2016 looming large, the Scot admits she will skip the indoor season in order to make sure she has corrected the problem.
"Last year everything went as perfectly as it could have in terms of stride pattern but this year I got a little bit faster than last year, and that affected my stride pattern," she told BBC Sport.
"I was disappointed after the World Championships as I should have been up there with the girls who were winning medals.
"But I can take that motivation into winter training and use it to my advantage next year.
"We've discussed the skeleton of the season. I'm not going to do an indoor season, so I can concentrate on the outdoor season.
"The main think about the Olympics is first and foremost getting the qualification out of the way."
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