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    ON WITH THE SHOW

    Dec 19, 2021 4 minutes

    The show must go on. Herewith 10 individuals who, one way or another, stamped their mark on the Covid-buffeted sporting year.

    The greatest gymnast of all time highlighted the growing concerns over mental-health issues in elite sport when she withdrew from competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles also made herself a target in America’s increasingly unhinged culture wars: right-wing white male media identities labelled her “weak” and a “selfish sociopath” who’d shamed her nation. Biles, 24, was one of hundreds of girls and young women who were sexually assaulted by former US gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, now serving a de facto

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