The stand taken against doping this week at the Rio Olympics by American swimmer Lilly King is a far more important moment than any medal ceremony involving Michael Phelps or Simone Biles.
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He sat down to write in a journal Thursday evening, overlooking the Olympic village and envisioning his voyage to it. Connor Fields wanted more than anything else to grasp the moment and how so many played a part in delivering him here. His friends, his family, his coaches past and present.
It has been described as the physical wearing out of a population and the deterioration of people that becomes a defining condition of their existence.
Greatness never has been an issue with women’s soccer in the United States, a side that most of the world has chased for 20 years now. Greatness wasn’t found in iconic Wembley Stadium on Thursday night. Resiliency was.
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