"I believe that my own saving was the stops caused by the corona pandemic. The transfer of studies to distance learning enabled a more flexible everyday life and more time to rest at home. The practice breaks were mentally heavy, but on the other hand, they lightened the physical load. Instead of team practice, we started investing in strength and endurance training, which has since also remained as a significant role in training. It even felt that I got a couple of extra years in my cheer career thanks to the pandemic. For a while, after the restrictions were lifted, I had full-time tutoring and long days at the hospital, while going to the practices both with Elite and the national team. However, I knew that I could not endure such a stressful everyday life forever and I decided to take a gap year to get some extra time for my sports career."
In the gap year, sports and rest come first. Tuuve does medical appointments and backlogged studies, but sports and recovery are the priorities. Although she is already starting to long to get back to her studies, Tuuve knows that the studies and working life are still waiting without disappearing, while the reality is that at some point age and other life will catch up with professional level sports.