Angela Whyte competed at her first Olympics in Athens in 2004, where she finished sixth in the 100-metre hurdles. She would go on to qualify and compete at the Games in 2008 and 2016.
It was after the Olympics in Rio De Janeiro she decided to try for a fourth appearance. “I made the decision to quit my job, move back to Canada, start with a new training group, a new coach,” said Whyte.
The road to this Games hasn’t been easy. She suffered from a nagging hamstring injury, which ended up taking surgery to fix. “I actually found out that I had some uterine fibroids that were potentially causing some nerve issue with the hamstring,” said Whyte. “I actually had surgery in order to try and get ready for this year.” With the COVID-19 pandemic