Ivan Volt
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We were training for the Tokyo Olympics.
Right.
And my younger brother,
He had won the World Cup twice that season.
I came second both the times, right?
So he was really fit, really fit.
And two weeks before the Olympic qualifier, he is diagnosed with leukemia.
So it's just like the whole Olympic campaign is gone, right?
He is told that you have to do chemo for two and a half year.
The chemo doesn't work.
He's like, last option.
We have to do bone marrow transplant.
My older brother ends up saving him by giving him the bone marrow.
And luckily he was a match.
I wasn't a match.
I couldn't give it to him.
And there's so many things he's doing while undergoing this cancer treatment.
He was looking like a ghost and he did his whole university degree as an engineer while
like 150% progression of the normal progression while sitting in isolation with IV, chemo, morphine, then bone marrow transplant, they say that it's the toughest, hardest medical treatment there is, right?
So it really just destroys your body.