49ers receiver Marquise Goodwin really wants to compete in the 2020 Olympics.
Goodwin, who finished 10th in the long jump at the 2012 Games, hasn’t competed in track since 2016 when he failed to qualify for the Olympics a second time. But he said he was “100 percent committed” to trying to qualify for Team USA next summer.
“It’s just the offseason,” Goodwin said, via the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s all on my off time. I use it as part of my training. What I do in long jump — track and field — definitely correlates to what I do as a wide receiver. Being fast. Being explosive. Putting my foot down. It’s the same mechanics that I use in football.”
The 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials are June 19-28, 2020, in Eugene, Oregon, when the 49ers are off before training camp. Goodwin would miss part of training camp if he qualified for the Tokyo Games, which run July 24-Aug. 9.
Would the 49ers approve of those pursuits?
Goodwin was suspended by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for one year in August 2017 after he failed to provide his whereabouts for drug testing. Though he said he did so because he chose to focus on his NFL career instead. The team sure seemed relived with the decision at the time.
Goodwin, 28, is a two-time NCAA long jump champion and posted a broad jump of 11 feet at the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine. He caught 23 passes for 395 yards with four touchdowns through 11 games and eight starts with the 49ers last season. He is preparing to enter his third season with San Francisco and his seventh in the NFL.
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