Gymnastics
Kathy McVey (IIML, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
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I have to say, the TV screen doesn’t really do it justice. The human eye can take in so much more than a camera and we don’t even really understand why. This is the sort of sport where your reputation precedes you. Although truthfully? There’s probably a fantastic story in every athlete. I met a girl once who planned an entire career as a coach and didn’t care what sport she was going to specialise in. I think she ended up in dressage. I heard the best riders get a properly telepathic bond with their horse and I like the idea of that, of being astride something so much more stable on the earth.
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Kathy McVey is a writer based in sunny Gisborne, on the East Coast of New Zealand’s North Island. She has spent the past year pondering the mind-body connection as it relates to health and illness, and writing poetry about drugs and other obsessions for her MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.
