Wightman had hoped 2024 was the 12 months the place “all the pieces was going to return again spherical collectively and it was going to be my finest season” after placing his harm struggles behind him.
“So it’s a horrible approach to finish an Olympic expertise – I did not get to go,” he stated. “For me, it’s now a choice of what I do.
“I might simply have been crushed by it and never needed to hold on. However that may’t be how I depart my expertise with the Olympic Video games.
“I hope to attempt to push on for yet one more cycle now, which I really feel motivated to go and do relatively than be upset and downbeat. I have to maintain that fireplace inside, which I’m glad continues to be there.”
A foot drawback prevented Wightman from defending his world title in 2023 and he then missed the British Olympic trials in June due to a calf harm.
Nevertheless, he obtained a discretionary decide by Workforce GB selectors for the 800m earlier than his hopes for Paris have been dashed.
“I believe in all probability the cruellest bit was I assumed I had my little bit of dangerous luck and wobble of the summer season once I did not do the trials,” Wightman stated.
“I do not suppose I might take care of too many extra huge blows like I’ve, so I hope I can have probably 4 years of unbroken coaching and racing, which is what I desperately want.”
Wightman is within the sport to chase championships and medals.
“I nonetheless imagine I can try this and I imagine I might have executed that these previous few years, however I simply have not been given the possibility to point out it, so that’s the cruellest bit,” he added.
“So it’s about ensuring I show I can nonetheless do it and show that every one their exhausting work hasn’t gone to waste.”