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Jayden Campbell and Logan Martin might be two wholly distinctive athletes, but the pair have confronted equivalent adversity lately.

The Olympic Gold Medal-winning BMX rider will be front and centre of Cbus Tremendous Stadium now entertaining enthusiasts with plenty of methods ahead of the Titans and Raiders bout at 3pm, refreshing from much more glory at the new X Online games in the United States.

But the journey to recent good results was a rough a single for the 28-calendar year-outdated athlete, having all of his full possessions stolen on day one particular of his excursion overseas.

“I just bought back again from America and there have been a handful of ups and downs all over the 7 days,” Martin recalled.

“At the start of the journey, my bicycle acquired stolen and all my luggage and passport bought stolen out of the vehicle, so I experienced to form out a new bike, new dresses and all that kind of stuff to be ready to ride in the levels of competition.

“I ended up coming 3rd in filth and profitable gold in park, so it finished up being a pretty epic 7 days and it built the journey significantly greater.”

Considering throwing in the towel immediately after the challenge of getting rid of everything, he viewed as heading home, before reminding himself of the purpose he was around there and the goal he experienced set and the challenging-work he experienced put in to reach it.

It truly is a topic he shared with the Gold Coastline Titans enjoying group, who have discovered themselves in a challenging rut recently, even with a good deal of tricky-perform.

“It just will come down comes down to focus and how poor you actually want one thing and constantly putting in the really hard operate,” Martin explained.

“If you truly want to realize a thing, you have just obtained to carry on working tricky at that purpose and you know, it may not come about in the very first calendar year or the very first two several years or even so lengthy, but you just have to continue to keep pushing and continue to keep striving for your aim.”

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His extraordinary resilience to hold heading is what amazed youthful Campbell when he read the Olympian’s tale, in advance of his task to assist defeat the Raiders.

“The tale that happened with him final week.. a bit of things rocked him a very little bit, but the up coming working day will come and you got to preserve finding on with it and you should not get caught on it,” Campbell claimed.

“It is really a pretty critical information for us, specially with how the period is heading at the instant. We just require to overlook about it and just maintain rolling on, with any luck , improving each and every each individual day.”

A tough initiation in his initial complete calendar year of NRL, the 22-calendar year-outdated has been flawed by a range of accidents all through the year, but he is excited to be back and constantly performing on his video game.

“It truly is been difficult. This was in all probability supposed to be my very first calendar year of a whole NRL season, but I’ve been really unlucky with two injuries that have held me up for a small bit,” Campbell explained.

“But hopefully, I will just hold obtaining online games thrown at me and I can hold doing work on myself and my match.”

Towards the environmentally friendly equipment is when the stay-wire fullback experienced his first damage to his ribs, but there is certainly no assumed or panic of that happening again when assembly them this weekend.

“Very last time we played is when I did my ribs, and I played the final 40-50 minutes with it,” Campbell reported.

“But which is not in the back again of my head. I’m just all set to go out and enjoy footy.”

Neither is the 22-6 guide they conceded in Round 3, with total intent to avenge that decline in entrance of the property followers today.

“It can be an spot we have to have to do the job on. We have excellent coaching staff members and we’ve obtained a great calibre of players all around below,” Campbell reported.

“We just require to get back to that winning mentality and closing game titles up.”