SIMONE Biles did the unthinkable. She entered the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as the greatest performer in her sport, but during the competition, she finally gave an audience to the thoughts pleading and screaming at her to stop. And so she walked away from the global stage.
That was brave.
Caeleb Dressel repeated the unfathomable. As the successor who climbed atop the golden podium vacated by Michael Phelps, Dressel had added even more medals to his coffers during the world championships last summer in Budapest, but then he, too, heard the internal sirens blaring in his head. He pulled out of the meet before