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Even so, Lynch thought Layne was setting herself up for a fall with her brash comments on The Footy Show, and he told her so. 'I just tried to give her a heads-up on the fact that you're better off letting everyone else talk you up and just concentrate on what you're doing,' he recalled. 'There's no need to denigrate your opposition. It just aliena
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Little girls, she argued, were worth nothing more than the medals they could win, so they were starved, abused, and used to keep their bodies and skills perfect—like “pretty boxes.”
Rachael Denhollander • What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
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Annie Duke • Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
In less than a year, I’d traveled from quitting running to twentieth at nationals, then to sixth, and now, second among the Americans at worlds. It seemed as though when my mind talked, my body listened, opening me to progress. My plan was to keep making more.
Deena Kastor, Michelle Hamilton • Let Your Mind Run
Reese is proving that young women athletes — Black young women, no less — can be all the things, no apologies needed. It’s not just the success, though, that is admirable. It’s that she’s crafting her own self-mythology, her own narrative — no sports media intermediary necessary.