For Sizwe Ndlovu, retirement was supposed to be temporary. After helping South Africa win Olympic gold in rowing at the 2012 London Games, Ndlovu had unfinished business.
Another Olympics beckoned. Another medal was the dream.
But he got injured.
A hip operation ruled him out of the 2016 Games and forced the decorated rower to confront a question athletes eventually have to answer: What happens when your body says it is time to stop?
The answer,…
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