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Simone Biles Did the Right Thing
For athletes (and the rest of us), mental injury and physical injury are inseparable and equally deserving of attention.
Simone Biles doing something impossible, as usual.
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A staple of reality television is putting 20-somethings into high-pressure situations with cameras in their faces and documenting their mental collapse. Now imagine any of those 20-somethings, or yourself at any age, having to also perform superhuman feats on command as the public face of the Olympic team of the world’s largest superpower. How long do you think you’d hold up?