The race walker, who placed third in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, had to figure out how to manage her career as a professional athlete and her advocacy for environmental sustainability.
Cowley told the news, “In 2019 and 2020, there were these massive bushfires in Australia that raged for months and months, although I was aware of climate change growing up.”
“The ‘Black Summer’ was what we termed it. It was extremely upsetting that for many days, cities like Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane were just suffocated with smoke and that it was nearly poisonous to step outdoors.
