Olympic bike owner Olivia Podmore lifeless at 24, shortly after Instagram publish detailing psychological well being ‘wrestle’

Podmore, who represented her nation within the 2016 Olympic Video games in Rio and 2018 Commonwealth Video games, was reported lifeless on Monday by a number of shops. Biking New Zealand confirmed the information of her dying the next day on social media. 

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“We at Biking New Zealand are deeply saddened with the sudden lack of our younger bike owner Olivia Podmore. Olivia was a a lot beloved and revered rider in our Biking New Zealand squad and the broader biking group,” the group stated in a press release posted on Fb. “Many individuals are understandably devastated and making an attempt so onerous to understand what has occurred. We’ve been and can proceed to offer help to our workers and riders, the biking group and those who had been near Olivia.”

Olivia Podmore celebrates a win within the first race for the Elite Ladies’s Dash Ultimate throughout day two of the New Zealand Nationwide Observe Biking Championships on the Avantidrome on Jan. 24, 2020 in Cambridge, New Zealand. (Michael Bradley/Getty Photos)

Waikato Police reported a sudden dying at a property in Cambridge on Monday night however declined to call a explanation for dying, in accordance with New Zealand information outlet Stuff. 

“Police are making inquiries in relation to the dying on behalf of the coroner,” legislation enforcement stated. “The coroner will launch their discovering in the end.”

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A social media publish by Podmore simply earlier than her passing has many believing that her dying might have been associated to psychological well being struggles. 

“Sport is a tremendous outlet for thus many individuals, ita??s a wrestle, ita??s a battle however ita??s so joyous,” she wrote earlier than within the now-deleted publish.

“The sensation if you win is not like every other, however the feeling if you lose, if you dona??t get chosen even if you qualify, if you’re injured, if you dona??t meet societya??s expectations akin to proudly owning a home, marriage, children all since you’re making an attempt to provide all the things to your sport can be not like every other,” she added.

Olivia Podmore poses in the course of the NZOC biking Commonwealth Video games headshots session on Oct. 18, 2017 in Cambridge, New Zealand. (Michael Bradley/Getty Photos)

Sport New Zealand held a press convention on Tuesday that seemingly confirmed her dying was associated to psychological well being struggles.

“What I’ll say is that psychological well being is extremely difficult,” Sport NZ CEO Raelene Citadel stated, through The New Zealand Herald. 

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“I actually want that we may have a black and white and unsuitable and proper reply for it. however it’s not like that, even if you put one of the best stage of help round that athlete with an open door into psychological companies, and supply all these alternatives,” Citadel stated. “Typically they attain out. Olivia had been reaching out into these environments. Why are we right here? That is the query all of us need the reply to.”

Fellow Olympian and shut buddy, rower Eric Murray, stated he was with Podmore the day earlier than her dying and had no thought one thing was unsuitable. 

“I used to be along with her this time yesterday and I want she had stated one thing,” Murray stated, through the Herald. “We have misplaced a sister, a buddy and a fighter who misplaced that may of battle within her.” 

“We’re seeing regionally and world wide the implications of psychological well being in sport,” he continued. “And we now have a statistic and that’s one statistic too many.”

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