Chloe Watkins: 'I’m still disappointed with myself from the Olympics and still not over that yet'

How do you re-acclimatise to life after the Olympics? Watkins couldn’t watch the rest of the Olympics when she got home, even though it had almost a week still to run

Chloe Watkins: Still not over Olympic disappointment.

Decompression is a slow and gradual affair. Like a diver ascending from the depths, there are steps to be followed for athletes as they emerge from the bubble that is an Olympic or Paralympic Games.

It’s almost a month now since the Irish women’s hockey team returned from Tokyo and Chloe Watkins is still finding her feet. She was worried about that for a while, until she found out that many of her teammates were in the same boat.