‘I would like to thank me’: Why Mirra Andreeva’s words are so refreshing

Failure is only partly visible. It’s there on the scoreboard, in the timings, in who came first and who is fourth, yet most of it we cannot see. The cameras stay with the winner, the loser sits in the shadows. Faces are blank but inside there’s a pitiless self-interrogation going on.

“Wow, what was that?”