COVID, near Year 3, still stinks for everyone — but spare an extra thought for our Olympians.
Bad luck means that they must take their once-in-a-lifetime chance in authoritarian China in the middle of a global pandemic, terrified that they’ll test positive and be finished competing — and locked up in quarantine isolation, too.
Yet they’re still managing to power through, especially figure skater Nathan Chen, these games’ breakout star and the perfect athlete for our head-fake times.
Most elite athletes are not like us: It’s hard to relate to Tom Brady and his supermodel wife or to Tiger Woods and his — well, never mind.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
This piece originally appeared in New York Post