OK — I know the Olympics are pressure-packed. You trained for years and years for this moment. You wanted to quit a million times. But you didn’t.
Finally, you’re here. The Olympics. Yay! You’re the best of the best. You’re way fast. Way strong. Way good.
You have a job: Take a stick from someone who hands it to you, run 100 meters, and hand it to someone else.
Unfortunately, this was just too much to ask.
I can see losing a race because the other team’s faster. Losing it because you dropped the darn stick is just lame.
Yeah, I know you feel bad. I’m just saying…
Sports is human life in microcosm.
~ Howard Cosell
