Another top athelete taking time off due to mental health reasons , Simone Biles withdrew. Earlier this year the Japanese tennis player Namoi Osaka took an extended amount of time off and missed at least one major over mental health reasons. That time off seemed to coincide with a time when she was priivately caring the knowledge that she would have a major role for her country in opening Olympic Ceremony.
Biles had an akward rountine befor dropping out of the team competition but denied any injury and Osaka played flat out bad tennis and got taken out in the third round of a gold medal tournoment she could have won.
Other atheletes , especially individual sports stars have recently acknowledged their mental health issues which I appaud them for. Now I'm wondering if the tremendous pressure these kids are under has been magnified by sports media and their endless hype and "backstory creation" making each contest feel like the most important sporting event of all time.?
It just seems like the sportsrazzi is up their ass before they are.