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With extra year, Christine Sinclair aiming to change colour of Canada’s Olympic medals

Stuck in isolation, Christine Sinclair learned she dislikes running — at least without a ball to chase.

The Canadian soccer superstar stated she’s been staying fit with lots of golf and national team-wide Zumba classes run by midfielder Desiree Scott on Zoom.

Sinclair is isolating in Tampa, Fla. The all-time international scoring leader went there to pick up her dog — Charlie, a Pomeranian — from a caretaker after the national team’s France tournament which ended March 10. By then, anyone returning from Europe had been told to quarantine for two weeks. After that was up, Sinclair and Charlie decided they were happy isolating in the Florida sun.

The Olympics wouldn’t be postponed for another two weeks after Sinclair’s return stateside.

“It was such a relief to know that now we have another year to prepare and that’s quickly where my mind went was another year to get better, another year to get our team better and close those gaps,” Sinclair stated in an interview with CBC Sports’ Andi Petrillo on Friday.

In the meantime, Sinclair had been practicing on a small patch of grass outside her apartment and using a nearby wall as a passing partner and makeshift goalkeeper.

At one point, she ventured to a sports complex containing six soccer fields.

“I was the only person out there and I’m like this is social distancing to the extreme, but I got kicked out,” Sinclair said.

Now, like the rest of us, Sinclair is biding her time waiting for some sort of return to normalcy. The National Women’s Soccer League’s pre-season is planned to start May 11, which is when Sinclair is hoping to return to the pitch with her Portland Thorns.

Sinclair said that seeing the inaugural men’s Canadian Premier League made her continue to long for a women’s version, or at least some Canadian NWSL outposts.

“I fear we will get left behind as a national team,” Sinclair said. “The women’s game has areas of growth still to come. It’s getting there, it’s just very slow.”

At the 2021 Olympics, however, it’ll still be Sinclair leading the way, trying to change the colour of her team’s prior two medals.

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