We ask a lot of our Olympic athletes — to perform with grace and humility, to carry the Olympic spirit even as they pursue their own individual goals; to abide by the rules, and to accept their fates, however they may go, with dignity.
Jordan Chiles has exemplified all of that in these Paris Olympic Games.
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Is it so much to ask the people who hold her Olympic dreams in their hands to do the same?
What is happening — and has happened — to Chiles and, by extension, Romania’s Ana Bărbosu, is a travesty of borderline technical malfeasance that has toyed with the emotions of two women who have done nothing
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