where there放在一起时是什么用法

Question

it is universally acknowledged that in order to achieve a satisfactory result in increasing fierce competion, athlets have to endure long period of training ,where there abound unbearable hardship and lonliness。这句话中where和there的关系是什么，where在这句话中的用法是什么，这句话怎么翻译？

Answer 1

我记得有句话叫做“where there is a will,there is the way”=“有志者事竟成”本回答被网友采纳