Raelene Boyle compares running with cancer – the ultimate race

Quote from Olympic athlete Raelene Boyle in Positive: ‘In many ways I think cancer has helped me put my career as an athlete into perspective. I was just a runner; running is fun, running is something I drew great pleasure out of. But it was just a sport, whereas this game is dealing with your life.’

It was remarkable to hear an athlete such as Raelene Boyle refer to running as ‘just a sport’. But with cancer as her point of comparison, it makes sense. When confronted with her own mortality, Raelene says, she felt that she had lost control of her destiny. ‘You really do have no control.’