Or it could just simply be the pressures on a young guy that lost his dad and had the pressures of the world piled on top of him and simply never had time to recover from it.
Recovering from losing your dad isn’t easy. The recovery happens in stages. The energy and your ‘will’ gets sucked out of you. It takes time to recover.
I can’t and won’t fault him, if that’s the case.
But, the needs of the team carry on.
It’s a tough time, sometimes, being a pro-athlete.