Team USA's Charlotte Drury reflects on Olympic journey after recent diabetes diagnosis

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Drury, a trampoline gymnast, felt off for months and didn't receive her diagnosis until one month before the first Olympics trial.

On the way home from camp, she decided to make a doctor's appointment and get blood work done. Hours later, she received a phone call from the doctor telling her she has type 1 diabetes and that it was"urgent that I come in immediately.""I didn’t go into practice for a week. I didn’t even consider continuing with gym.

Trampoline jumper Charlotte Drury at the 2016 Team USA Media Summit on March 9, 2016 in Beverly Hills, Calif."With his, and so many others, help, I started to figure out how to manage it and decided to give everything I had to the sport in the little bit of time I had left," she wrote.

 

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