Riley Day picks up the phone in her hotel quarantine room at 10am.

She’s scheduled her interview just after her routine 8.30am wake up to her ‘doorbell alarm’, signalling her breakfast has been left outside her door. 

Going from racing in the Olympics to 14 days in the same room can be pretty repetitive, but Riley said she was keeping busy. 

“I’ve been doing a little bit of painting in the morning, and I’ve been doing some exercise, then usually that takes me to lunch,” she said. 

And then in the afternoon I’ll do some uni work.” 

The Beaudesert girl captured Australia’s attention in her 200m sprint semi-final at the Tokyo Olympic Games. 

Riley narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Olympic final however ran a personal best time of 22.56. 

“Not much is going through my head when I’m actually running,” she said.&nb