April 9, 2020
By Scott Mammoser
Athletes around the world are coping with the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games from 2020 to 2021 in different forms. For Will Claye, the Tempe native who is a three-time Olympic medalist in track and field, his mechanism was his music.
Claye produced “Dreams Don’t Die” from his home studio and shows clips of athletes continuing to train despite the delaying of the Games until July 23, 2021, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Claye, who will turn 29 in June, won silver medals in the triple jump at both the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics. He also added a bronze in the long jump to his medal haul during his Olympic debut in 2012. A state record holder at Phoenix’s Mountain Pointe High School, Claye won an outdoor NCAA title with Oklahoma and later an indoor NCAA title with Florida. He went on to win two indoor world championships and four outdoor world championship medals in the triple jump.
Eighteen other athletes appear in the video, including Breanna Stewart - of the Seattle Storm and U.S. basketball team, Ivanna Spanovic - the defending women’s world indoor long jump champion from Serbia, and Mondo Duplantis – the Swedish pole vaulter who won silver at the recent Doha World Championships.
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