Jasmine Joyce: Third Olympics no much less particular for GB sevens star
Jasmine Joyce says the Olympic expertise is not going to be “any much less particular” subsequent yr having already represented Workforce GB in Rio and Toyko.
The St Davids speedster certified for subsequent summer time’s Paris Video games with Nice Britain girls’s sevens facet.
They received gold on the European Video games, beating hosts Poland within the last.
“I’ve by no means been a part of this [qualification] course of earlier than, so it was a cool expertise to be with the women,” Joyce instructed BBC Sport Wales.
Joyce first realised her Olympic dream when chosen for the Rio 2016 Olympics, however that resulted in tears when GB have been pipped by Canada within the bronze medal match.
The script repeated itself in Tokyo 5 years later with Fiji inflicting heartbreak that point round.
“It was clearly actually powerful in Rio and Tokyo having fourth place, it is most likely the worst place to complete,” mentioned Joyce.
“It does nonetheless harm, however we’re very a lot having fun with the second, having fun with being current and no matter the place you come, it is fairly particular to go to not one or two, however three Olympics.”
Joyce is assured having extra time to arrange will put the staff in good stead subsequent summer time.
“We’ll have the luxurious of being collectively for 2 years moderately than come collectively six months previous to an Olympic video games,” she mentioned.
“It is tremendous particular for the nations to come back collectively to compete as one, I am loving being a part of it.”
Joyce left Wales’ 15-a-side skilled programme in the beginning of the yr to rejoin the sevens circuit, a choice she has “no regrets” about.
“Clearly I am actually joyful for the women who had an incredible Six Nations marketing campaign after which WXV can be an excellent expertise as effectively, hopefully I can return and do some stuff with them this yr.”
However for now, Joyce will get pleasure from six weeks off, with a household journey to the US among the many highlights.
She additionally seems to be ahead to welcoming family and friends to Paris subsequent yr, with it being a a lot shorter journey than Brazil and Japan.
“I am tremendous excited, I think about it’s going to be a overrated Olympics… we get to play on the world stage in opposition to world class groups which is fairly cool,” she added.
