# @niall_williams13 on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZ_ceYHDzo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18053798-niall-williams13-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-06-22T02:46:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** ɴɪᴀʟʟ ᴡɪʟʟɪᴀᴍꜱ ɢᴜᴛʜʀɪᴇ 🇼🇸 🇳🇿 (@niall_williams13) — https://gondola.cc/niall_williams13

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The moment you choose to be an elite athlete is the moment your life changes.. 🤩🙏🏉

I chose to get onboard a waka 5 years ago and  be apart of an amazing journey that is unique to only my sisters and management🤍 we choose to paddle through all the storms, and through all the sunshine together ⛈🌈☀️ and when anyone fell off there were many hands always ready to pull you back onboard whilst the rest kept on paddling 🌊🤝🖤 

Our destination - Tokyo2021 🔥 Our journey - be world dominant by enhancing mana in the black jersey and continue our legacy🖤

Although I may physically not be on the waka anymore 😔💔 I hope that each of my sisters carries a little part of me with them as they continue the final parts of this journey 🤍😭

I am grateful to still be able to walk, talk and be alive 🙏🙌🏽 I will take my time and feel everything I need too, the truth is my new journey is going to be on a damn roller coaster of emotion 👆🏽👇🏽 but like I’ve always said I’ve got a support crew that’s second to none, they been there before, during and will be there at the end when all is done🥰😘 so I know I’ll be ok❤️ 

What a team, what a family, what a journey.  Wouldn’t change it for a thing!! ⚡️💫

Go well my sisters and management, I’m right beside you  all till the very end! 🤍
IN THE 👏🏽👏🏽 WAKA

Love you fam ❤️‍🔥

Also I shared this moment of me on the way to tell my second family - bf7s that My olympic dream is over and the farewell haka we received 🤍know that this is the reality that many athletes have to go through on the daily, injuries, own high expectations, other people’s expectations, highs, lows, wins, losses, selection, non selection, and criticism from many - this game means more to us than you may think - remember that and always be kind 🤍 we’re all human beings at the end of the day. 

#OlympicJourney #Blackferns7s #NW4 #RealAndRaw #ItsOkToNotBeOk #BeVulnerable #TillTheDamnWheelsFallOff #ITW #IllBeBack

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## Tags

olympicjourney, nw4, itsoktonotbeok, illbeback, itw, bevulnerable, blackferns7s, realandraw, tillthedamnwheelsfalloff

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