Olympian Rosie MacLennan talks about the importance of brain health and protecting your legacy.

Ever since Rosie MacLennan was seven-years-old she knew she wanted to compete in the Olympics. From the outside, the two-time gold medalist seems invincible; an athlete with an incredible track record of winning. But what isn't apparent, is her Olympic dream was nearly cut short by three concussions.

Over the last decade, the 30-year-old trampolinist, from Toronto, Ont., has reached heights she never imagined, and is a favourite to take home the top prize in Tokyo in 2020.

But the combination of a fall in 2012, a 2013 snowboarding accident, another fall in 2015, plus hitting her head on a trunk door just two weeks later, put her career in jeopardy. She started forgetting words, her speech was slurred, she dealt with splitting headaches and, on top of it all, she was battling depression and anxiety, which are concussion-related symptoms. “I was basically living in a fog," she says.

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