# @marina.k.villatoro on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc-75R9suqm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70097131-marinakvillatoro-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/76353b0306.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07T10:51:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Marina Kuperman Villatoro (@marina.k.villatoro) — https://gondola.cc/marina.k.villatoro

## Caption

A virus shut down her Olympic dream. 

🧗 Oceana Mackenzie | Sport Climbing | Two-time Australian Olympian • First Australian woman to qualify for Olympic sport climbing

For years, Oceana’s parents paid for flights, hotels, entry fees, and international competitions on a researcher’s salary.

Then COVID shut the climbing gyms.

Her father didn’t wait for them to reopen. He built a climbing wall in the family garage so Oceana could keep training while her mother home-educated all six girls.

Sometimes the support you’re waiting for never arrives.
The parents who make the difference are often the ones who build what’s missing.

⁉️ If the opportunity your child needed didn’t exist, would you build it yourself? ⁉️

👩‍🔬 I spent years decoding what 100 elite athlete parents actually did. The uncomfortable truth about how athletes get made.

🏘️🌴 It takes a strategic village to raise an athlete. This is your village. 🥇
__

#OceanaMackenzie  #Climbing #Olympics #TeamAustralia #SportsParents

## Stats

- **Views:** 1,655
- **Likes:** 33
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 2

## Tags

climbing, oceanamackenzie, teamaustralia, olympics, sportsparents

---
Copyright (c) Gondola