He became a national icon at the Tokyo Olympics, but Peter Bol has new expectations in Birmingham. CommGames
He's intent on standing on the podium."We've always been proud to be at championships and at some point you're not there for experience anymore; you want to perform ... now we've got to take that mentality into these championships," Bol told Wide World of Sports."A good place to start would be the Commonwealth Games."The unique thing about medals once you have them they're there forever, so we definitely want to get those medals.
It was at the most recent Commonwealth Games, held on the Gold Coast in 2018, that Luke Mathews became the last Australian man to score an 800m medal, collecting bronze. While Bol made his Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, he's yet to contest the Commonwealth Games.Peter Bol is set for his Commonwealth Games debut. "The unique thing is it's still the same privilege, there's still the same excitement from the first time I represented Australia in Rio. It's still to this day the same excitement and it just never leaves.
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