Sanity is more important than greatness. Family more precious than fortune. Happiness more valuable than fame. And yet even though this is self-evident, athletes chase glory sometimes at great cost to themselves.
Athletes win Olympic gold and sink into depression. Now what, they ask? Others get eaten by the incessant pressure and are defeated by online abuse. Still they persist with one-dimensional lives where there is nothing beyond practice, travel, wins and losses.
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