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An Eating Disorder Once Kept This Bay Area Athlete From Competing. Now She's Racing for Gold in the Olympics

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Robyn Stevens celebrates after finishing first in the Women's 20 km Racewalk Final on day nine of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 26, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon.
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We tend to think of the Olympics as being for young people. But much depends on the specific sport, and the resilience of the specific athlete. Meet 38-year-old Robyn Stevens of Vacaville, California. She's representing the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics after taking a 12-year break from professional race walking.
As a child, Stevens loved soccer and dance. She was in middle school when her PE teacher invited her to get into track and field. She decided on race walking after watching an elite meet at Stanford University.

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2 racers with Solano connections hoof it toward Olympics

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Robyn Stevens, 38, of Vacaville, and Nick Christie, 29, a Fairfield native from San Diego, take time away from their race walking training to participate in an Earth Day cleanup event. (Courtesy photo)
2 racers with Solano connections hoof it toward Olympics
FAIRFIELD — Robyn Stevens has an eclectic list of idols, though two of them she must count herself among the millions who admire their talents and charisma.
Stevens, 38, of Vacaville, was only 6 years old when she first saw Nadia Comăneci dazzle the world as a 14-year-old gymnast from Romania; and while teetering on dreams of being an athlete or a dancer, it was Mikhail Baryshnikov who captured Stevens’ devotion.

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