Reports on sports experiences often begin with the sentence: It was torture. That’s right, that was it. I don’t want to deny that either. Pushing my own limits in sports has long been alien to me. I’ve never run a marathon, my last competition was tennis when I was a teenager. It’s been ages. And then I immediately stopped doing it. I wanted to have fun with sports and not fight doggedly for victories.

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