Standing on the podium, she says, “that’s the moment I realized I can do this,” and her future as one of the most dominant multi-sport athletes in history was solidified. “I always say I’m a Gemini—I’m meant to be this way,” she says.

Masters’ ability to seemingly be everywhere in the para-sporting world gives her a unique platform to champion diversity in sports—not just among athletes but of the sports themselves. “We need diversity in sports for kids to see there’s so many different ways to ride a bike, to run, to ski,” she says. “The Paralympics are parallel to the Olympics, for athletes of different body types and different physical features. And right now is an exciting time to be a Paralympic athlete in the U.S. because things are changing so fast.”

In 2019, the U.S. Olympic Committee became the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee—a small change in nomenclature with significant ripple effects. “It’s huge,” says Masters. “The more people see ‘U.S Olympic and Paralympic,’ the more they’re going to learn what it is.”

The Tokyo Games are also the first to offer equal pay to Olympic and Paralympic medalists (the decision was announced in September 2018 and was retroactively applied to Paralympic medalists at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang.) Gold medals at both Games now also come with a payout of $37,500, silver $22,500, and bronze $15,000. “Before, our gold medal wasn’t even worth one half of what a bronze medal in the Olympics was,” Masters says. “It’s weird when you’re committing yourself so hard [to your country] that you’re literally putting yourself into debt. I was in so much debt when I was training for Sochi, I was living out of my car. After 2018, that was the first time I was able to get out of debt.”

Pay equity is an optimistic sign for the future of the Paralympics, which still receives far less media coverage than the Olympic Games. “Every single Paralympic athlete is going to be entering their event knowing that their country supports them and values them 100% equally to their Olympic athletes,” says Masters. “We’re moving in the right direction. Not as fast as I personally would like—and probably not as fast as 99% of Paralympic athletes would like—but it’s getting there.”

Right now, Masters is focused on having that perfect cycling race in Tokyo while staving off anxieties about training for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing—which are scheduled to start in six months. “I’m a complete basket case, I’m not going to lie,” she says. Luckily, she has someone who gets it—her boyfriend Aaron Pike, the only other Paralympian to have medaled in three sports. “I know there’s going to come a moment where I will not be able to use my body in this way,” she says. “I want to take advantage of every single day that I can.”

Macaela MacKenzie is a senior editor at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter. 

The Paralympics 2021 schedule has officially commenced, which means one thing: the stream of epic women in sports moments we’ve seen this summer continues. 

In case you missed it, women dominated the competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics earlier this summer. On Team U.S.A., the five most mentioned athletes on social media were women—a buzz they backed up by bringing home 58% of the medals. The Paralympics—short for “parallel Olympics”—promises to be just as groundbreaking, as athletes with different types of physical abilities compete in 22 sports. 

If the Olympics is heralded for it’s ability to bring the world together for moments of triumph, conversations on mental health, and a sense of unified camaraderie, the Paralympics has the power to be even more valuable. Yes, it’s about made-to-go-viral athletic achievements. But it’s also about upending stereotypes about disability and giving us all role models who refuse to be tokenized.  

Yet again, women athletes are leading the way, using their platforms to start conversations—and their athletic prowess to bring home some hardware. There’s Oksana Masters, who will be going for her ninth Paralympic medal in her fourth sport; Tatyana McFadden, a six-time Paralympic cyclist who will be going for her 18th medal; and Melissa Stockwell, an Army veteran and mom of two going for gold in the para-triathalon event. 

Catch all the action August 24-September 5 (you can get the full Paralympics 2021 schedule here) and don’t miss these women. 

Tatyana McFadden

McFadden is one of the most recognized para-athletes in the world. And with extremely good reason—the wheelchair racer has won 17 medals over six Paralympic Games, and her advocacy for athletes with disabilities led to the passage of an Obama-era federal law that requires high schools to allow students with disabilities to compete in sports. This summer, she’ll be looking to bring home her first gold in the marathon event. 

Melissa Stockwell

Stockwell’s Paralympic story began in 2004 in Iraq when she became the first U.S. woman to lose a limb in active combat. Four years later, she was competing as a Paralympic swimmer in Beijing and even set a new American record. In Tokyo, she’ll be competing to bring home her second medal in the para-triathalon event. 

Oksana Masters

One Paralympic sport isn’t enough for Oksana Masters. The double amputee has already brought home medals in rowing, biathlon and cross country skiing. In Tokyo, just weeks after a surgery that threatened her athletic future, she plans to add a medal in paracycling to her collection. (Coincidentally, only one other Paralympian who has medaled in three sports is Aaron Pike—Masters’ boyfriend.)

Shoko Ota

For the first time ever, the Paralympic Games will include a full-contact sport: para-taekwondo. Japan’s Shoko Ota is the athlete to watch—she’s already won three winter Paralympic medals and had retired before the inclusion of taekwondo was announced. But on her road to Tokyo, she dethroned the reigning world champion. 

Jessica Long

Swimmer Jessica Long competed at her first Paralympic Games when she was just 12 and is a 13-time Paralympic champion. 

Nicky Nieves

Nieves, a middle blocker, is heading to Tokyo with her team as the defending champions in sitting volleyball. She credits their strong support for each other for their success: “Not only do we lift each other up, but we find ways to try and help fill each other emotionally when they need it the most,” she wrote. 

Zakia Khudadadi

Zakia Khudadadi was set to be the first woman to represent Afghanistan in the Paralympics. After the Taliban takeover, she shared an emotional video. “My intention is to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Please hold my hand and help me,” she said, per the New York Times, in the video shared and translated  by Reuters. “Please, I request you all—especially all the women from around the globe and the female institutions and the United Nations to not let the rights of a female citizen of Afghanistan in the Paralympic movement to be taken away so easily.” 

Though the Afghani athletes will not be competing, the International Paralympic Committee flew Afghanistan’s flag during the Opening Ceremony in Tokyo as a sign of solidarity. Following the video, Khudadadi and several other female Athletes in Afghanistan were successfully evacuated to Australia, the New York Times reports. 

Simone Biles made her triumphant return to the Olympics on August 3, taking home a bronze medal in the balance beam competition. Everyone was thrilled for her: her fans, her boyfriend, and even Taylor Swift, who recorded a beautiful message about Biles before she hit the beam. 

“Throughout the last week, her voice has been as significant as her talents,” Swift said. “Her honesty as beautiful as the perfection that had long been her signature. But don’t you see? It still is. She’s perfectly human. And that’s what makes it so easy to call her a hero. Simone Biles: back on the beam in Tokyo.”

This message played over footage of Biles at the Tokyo Games, and Swift’s song “This Is Me Trying” set the tone. Watch it for yourself, below. 

Biles was very moved by Swift’s message. She retweeted it and wrote, “I’m crying. How special. I love you @taylorswift13.” 

Swift then retweeted Biles’s message and wrote, “I cried watching YOU. I feel so lucky to have gotten to watch you all these years, but this week was a lesson in emotional intelligence and resilience. We all learned from you. Thank you.”

Earlier in Taylor Swift’s tribute video, she said about Simone Biles, “What do we want from our heroes? What do we expect from them? What do we need from them? What happens when they surprise us? When you have the attention of the world, everything you do takes on a bigger meaning. It can be a heavy burden. It can be a chance to change everything.” 

Of her Tokyo Games experience, Biles wrote on Instagram, “Not at all how I imagined or dreamed my second Olympics would go, but blessed to represent the USA. I’ll forever cherish this unique Olympic experience. Thanks everyone for the endless love and support. I’m truly grateful. Leaving Tokyo with 2 more Olympic medals to add to my collection isn’t too shabby! Seven-time Olympic medalist.” 

Yes, she is!

It has just dawned on Bryce Wettstein, the 16-year-old skateboarding phenom from Encinitas, California, that she could win the first Olympic gold medal in women’s park skateboarding ever. “When you just said that, I feel like I’m tingling. I’m like, Woah! I didn’t even think about it like that,” Wettstein says. “That is just so indescribable, it’s almost like you’d need Leonardo da Vinci next to you to paint it.”

Winning isn’t why Wettstein, who has been competing since she was seven, skates. For her, skateboarding is more of a philosophy. 

“It’s sort of like skateboarding takes you on a roller coaster of who you are. That’s what makes it liberating—you find all of these downfalls and pitfalls and uplifting things that you would never find. It’s an introspective thing,” she says. “I’ve never found anything like that before. When I’m skating, I feel like I’m sort of in another cosmos—more like my own universe.”

It is clear within the first 30 seconds of a conversation with Wettstein that she has a kaleidoscopic view of the world. She’s a whole vibe—a seeker, an explorer, a multihyphenate who trains by surfing and playing volleyball and making sure to “never just do one thing all the time.” She is in so many ways the antithesis of the stereotype of the rigid, self-punishing athlete we’ve come to associate with Olympic glory—those who push themselves so hard they vomit, or compete through injuries, or sacrifice their mental health as a matter of routine.

In that way, Wettenstein is part of a cohort of women embodying a different type of Olympian at the Tokyo Games. Like fencer Lee Kiefer, who, while in med school, became the first Asian American woman to win gold in the sport. And Simone Biles, who had the bravery and the foresight to step away from competition at the biggest moment of her career to prioritize her well-being (and then make a bronze medal-winning comeback). And swimmer Lilly King, who called bullshit on those who act like silver and bronze medals shouldn’t be celebrated. These women are challenging the cultural bedrock of competitive sports which for centuries has told athletes, and the rest of us watching them, that winning—gold only—is everything.

As she prepares to compete in the women’s park competition on August 4, Wettstein isn’t thinking about the medals. Instead she’s bringing the same wide-eyed wonder to the competition as the little girls she coaches in her free time. “I feel like they’re always teaching me things that I never knew about the world. It’s hard to see the world in the same way all the time, but when you have the mindset that they do [when you’re skating], you can see things in a million new ways,” she says.

She might be on to something. When skateboarding debuted with its first Olympic event in July, it was three teen girls who took the podium—Japan’s 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya, who won the first-ever Olympic gold in the women’s street skating competition, 13-year-old Rayssa Leal who won silver, and 16-year-old Funa Nakayama, who took bronze.

Medal or not, Wettstein is excited to share the philosophy of skateboarding from the Olympic stage. “Skateboarding is always changing, always malleable, always ready for something else,” she says. “It is constantly, constantly in the process of changing—that’s what makes it so majestical.”

Simone Biles made her return to the Olympic spotlight on August 2 to participate in the individual balance beam finals, earning a bronze medal, the same she took home for that event at the Rio games in 2016. And no one was prouder of the athlete than her boyfriend, NFL player Jonathan Owens.

Owens, who wore a Simone Biles T-shirt to cheer her on during her qualifying Olympic trials in St. Louis, took to Instagram on August 3 to congratulate his girl on her performance. In a series of three Stories posts, he wrote, “Words can’t express how proud of you I am right now.” He then shared a graphic touting Biles’s many accomplishments, plus a sweet picture of her return to the mat.

Biles withdrew from most of her planned Olympic events after experiencing “the twisties,” a dangerous condition that makes it hard for a gymnast to orient their body in the air, and therefore land safely.

When Biles first withdrew, Owens vocally supported her online, posting a carousel of pictures featuring her and the two of them being cute, and writing, “Imma ride with you through whatever baby Your strength and courage is unmatched and you inspire me more and more everyday SB ?”

While other (incorrect) onlookers doubted Biles’s stamina, Owens was steadfast, continuing, “You always gone be my champ baby and don’t you ever forget that, i love you so much and i can’t wait till you come home and i get to see that beautiful smile again. You know I’m always here for you baby -JO.”

Biles celebrated Owens, too, posting for his birthday in July even though they had to be apart because of COVID travel restrictions. “here in Japan it is already my favorite persons birthday ? HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY BABE. @jowens_3 I love you so much. Can’t wait to celebrate you when I get home! thanks for keeping me sane during the craziest times. an ear to vent too, someone to share fun times with and make the best of memories ? not sure how I got so lucky & what I’d do without you! But I hope you have the best day ever. Not too much fun without me tho hahaha ???? forever yours, S,” she wrote.

These two are the definition of mutually supportive!

I have been humbled by my own mediocrity, and I am determined to help others not to make the same mistake. So, I have conducted a non-scientific review of how U.S. Olympic athletes meet their partners, by analyzing dozens of current and former American Olympians. I have narrowed down the best ways to meet an Olympian.

Good luck! I say this sincerely—you are really going to need it.

The best way to date an Olympian is to be an elite athlete.

I am horrified to inform you that the best way to ensure that you end up with an Olympian is to be a professional athlete yourself. Ideally, you should actually be an Olympian. There are dozens of Olympic couples—think Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, or figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi and ice hockey player Bret Hadican, who met at the 1992 Olympics. Cyclists Laura and Jason Kenny, who are competing for Team Great Britain in Tokyo, have, between the two of them, enough gold to open a boutique jeweler. And in the hottest situation imaginable, Gerek Meinhardt and Lee Kiefer are married Olympians on the American fencing team, and are also both in medical school. He already picked up a bronze in Tokyo, she won gold.

But if you aren’t up to the Olympic level, it’s absolutely fine to just be a professional athlete. Simone Biles’ boyfriend, Jonathan Owens, is an NFL player. Allyson Felix’s husband, Kenneth Ferguson, used to run for the United States, too. Alix Klineman, who just advanced to the women’s volleyball quarterfinals, is engaged to Teddy Purcell, a former NHL player. Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson is married to Derron Herrah, a pro-runner turned coach.

Another way to date an Olympian is to meet them before they become an Olympian

If you cannot walk for 3 blocks without pausing to take a little phone break, not all is lost. Eddy Alvarez stands out even among Olympians—he has a silver medal for speedskating in the winter Olympics, and in Tokyo he’ll go for a summer medal, this time in baseball. His wife, somewhat reassuringly, is a real estate agent. But they met in elementary school.

So yes, a non-athlete can meet an Olympian, but it’s best to start early. Champion surfer Carissa Moore is married to her high school sweetheart. Gymnast Mykayla Skinner, who took home a silver this week for the vault, was introduced to her husband through friends in college. Runner-turned-filmmaker Alexi Pappas, who ran for Greece at the 2016 Olympics, also met her husband in college. (They connected while dancing at a rap concert, which feels like it is moving in the right direction, in terms of physical requirements.)

After that, things begin to become physically demanding again—two-time Tokyo gold medalist Bobby Finke is dating Ellie Zweifel, who swims for the University of Florida. And swimmer Caeleb Dressel, who picked up a casual five gold medals in Tokyo, met his wife on his high school swim team.

A third great way to date an Olympian is to be superlative in your field

Perhaps you saw Team Great Britain diver Tom Daley, who looks like a greek statue that has been animated by the gods, and thought, “Who gets to be with that guy?” The answer is Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who wrote Milk, the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic. Rugby-player and champion Olympic TikTok-maker Cody Melphy is married to influencer Payton Melphy. 

Nick Wagman, who is representing the United States in dressage, told Out Sports that he met his husband through a series of events that included all of the above factors. Wagman’s now-husband, Kurt Gering, appeared on The Real World (superlative in his field!) and Wagman was a viewer.  One night, Wagman was at a bar that was playing The Real World, Gering walked in. (Met him before he was an Olympian.) Also, Gering is a triathlete. It’s the perfect combination: Wagman and Gering have been together for more than 20 years.

So! The recipe for Olympic love is simple. The strongest situation you can create for yourself if you are determined to be with an Olympian: Change careers, take up an extreme sport, and trust the universe makes it happen. Or, pay up the $9.99/month for Tinder Passport, and take your chances.

Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter. 

When Simone Biles began withdrawing from Olympic competitions, many wondered what was going on. She later revealed she’s dealing with an acute condition that affects elite gymnasts known as “the twisties.” Essentially, this means that when Biles is twisting in the air, she’s losing track of where she is, making it nearly impossible for her to safely land on her feet. The gymnast took to Instagram Stories on Thursday, July 29, to explain more about the condition, her decision to step back from competition, and how she’s currently coping.

Answering fan questions and sharing videos from practice, Biles explained, “For anyone saying I quit: I didn’t quit, my mind & body are simply not in sync as you can see here.” She added, “I don’t think you realize how dangerous this is on hard/competition surface nor do I have to explain why I put health first.”

To reiterate: This is not a case of an athlete not wanting to compete. Much like with a physical injury, with the way Simone Biles is feeling now, competing could cause further harm. She may want to be on the mat in Tokyo, but she can’t safely navigate her routines on those hard surfaces.

She continued, “I’ve had plenty of bad performances throughout my career and finished the competition. I simply got so lost my safety was at risk as well as a team medal. Therefore the girls stepped up and killed the rest of the competition & won silver QUEENS!!! Hence why we have 4 team members bc ALLLLL of us can compete in team meet. Not just me.”

She also quickly addressed speculation that she had reached some kind of breaking point due to the pressure of the Games, writing simply, “Could be triggered by stress I hear but I’m also not sure how true that is.”

Biles mentioned that she’s been practicing at a training facility in Tokyo with soft landing surfaces and will publicly thank that space when the Games are over.

On her Instagram grid, she posted pictures of herself with her coaches and wrote, “Forever thankful to have such an amazing support system by my side.”

Women in basketball have been killing it for decades—but this feels like the year they’re finally getting their due. The women of the WNBA laid significant groundwork for equal pay, redefined what activism looks like in sports, and even helped to influence an election. In the NCAA, women’s basketball stars turned the floodlights of social media on to the massive discrepancies in respect and resources given to women vs. men in sports. And now, with the Olympics 2021 well underway, the US Women’s Olympic basketball team is poised to score their seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal. That’s some dynasty shit.

Behind the majority of those medals is Dawn Staley, a WNBA star turned league-changing coach, who has been a part of six of those gold medal efforts and is currently leading the women on their current 50-game Olympic winning streak. “When you actually really start thinking about it, it’s hard to not feel the pressure of going for a historical seventh Gold Medal,” says Staley. “I’ve given over half of my life to USA basketball. It’s the only place that continues to take me back to those pure days where you just play to win—no one cares about scoring, no one cares about playing time, no one cares about anything besides being on that podium. That’s what keeps me coming back. It’s the purity and the innocence of basketball.”

Staley knew her life would be about basketball in eighth grade when she received her first college interest letter. “I grew up in the projects in North Philly, so I knew then that basketball could be something that I could truly utilize as a vehicle to advance,” she says. “I love basketball. It’s my livelihood, it’s my safe haven, and I feel as long as I have it as a part of my life, I have purpose.”

As a point guard at the University of Virginia, Staley earned recognition as the Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA in 1991 before embarking on a dominant professional career. She played for seven All-Star teams and won three Olympic gold medals. She amassed such reverential status among her fellow athletes that she was elected by the captains of all U.S. teams to carry the American flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympics. In other words, she’s a legend.

“Coach Staley’s got the blueprint, she started it,” says guard Skylar Diggins-Smith. “In 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics, that was the first time I got to see women that looked like me, Black and brown women, represented on TV. That gave me something to aspire to.”

After retiring, Staley kicked off an illustrious coaching career, serving as an assistant coach on the gold medal winning 2008 and 2016 Olympic teams and is head coach of women’s basketball at South Carolina where she led the team to the 2017 NCAA championship.

“You don’t really see a Black woman crushing the game like that,” adds forward A’ja Wilson, who played for Staley at South Carolina and now on the US women’s Olympic basketball roster. “Representation matters so much for these moments.”

Now as a coach, Staley’s job is all about passing her sense of purpose on to the next generation of women in basketball. “Coach Staley is like my second mom. She has paved the way for me to be the woman that I am,” says Wilson. “She’s given so much to this game, she has cracked that glass ceiling for young girls like me to now shatter it.”

That, says Diggins-Smith, is exactly what U.S. women’s basketball is all about. Yes, it’s about great hoops but it’s also about “collectively making the game better. Introducing fans to us as women telling stories and ultimately inspiring the next generation,” she says. “I think that’s what we’re accomplishing.”

Simone Biles is thankful for the support she’s received since withdrawing from the gymnastics team final and individual all-around final at the Tokyo Olympics. 

“The outpouring love & support I’ve received has made me realize I’m more than my accomplishments and gymnastics which I never truly believed before,” the gymnast tweeted on Wednesday, July 28. 

This tweet echoes what many supporters have been saying since Biles’s withdrawal: that she’s a human being who should prioritize her mental health and doesn’t exist to entertain us. 

“Sending love to Simone Biles, the human being, who deserves all adoration and praise for who she is, not for the super-athletic things she can do to entertain the world. She must be heartbroken and in excruciating pain. She deserves the right to take care of her body and mind,” one person tweeted. 

Another added, “Your accomplishments are astonishing, but you are more than your accomplishments. You are a loving, caring human being and an inspiration to us all.” 

“After further medical evaluation, Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games, in order to focus on her mental health,” USA Gymnastics said in a statement on July 28. “We wholeheartedly support Simone’s decision and applaud her bravery in prioritizing her well-being. Her courage shows, yet again, why she is a role model for so many.”

Biles herself talked about her reasons for withdrawing on July 27. “I’m just dealing with things internally that will get fixed in the next couple of days,” she said, BBC News reported.

She also added (per USA Today), “After the performance that I did, I didn’t want to go into any of the other events second-guessing myself, so I thought it was better if I took a step back and let these girls go out there and do the job, and they did just that.” 

Team USA ended up taking home silver medals in the gymnastics team final. 

Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast in history, withdrew from the team competition and the all-around competition at the Olympics 2021 in Tokyo this week. “I had to do what’s right for me and not jeopardize my health and well-being,” she told press. 

Immediately far-right commentators, trolls, and generally creepy men lashed out at the 24-year-old gymnast. They called her a quitter, weak, and a coward. They accused her of abandoning her teammates. They even implied that she’s not a good American. It’s not worth singling out these critics—getting attention for raging at a strong Black woman is exactly what they want. 

But there are probably nice, reasonable people in your life who are critical of Biles’s decision too. It’s not particularly compassionate, but it’s understandable—if you don’t rabidly follow Biles (can’t relate), you might look at this situation and just see a person breaking her commitment. Most of us were raised on stories of athletes being celebrated for putting their physical and mental health at risk to compete. We saw Kerri Strug as an 18-year-old U.S. gymnast win a gold medal on a broken foot, and we were told that was heroic. (Strugg never competed again—more on that below.) 

This is exactly the unhealthy narrative Simone Biles is countering—she’s showing every current and future athlete that saving your own life is more important than getting a medal. She’s helping us unlearn a crazy, exploitative, and just plain unnecessary mentality. Let’s let her take a well-deserved break, and do some of that unlearning together. 

Here are some ways to talk about Simone Biles’s historic week, whether you’re arguing with creeps, a misguided friend, or even your own inner skeptic: 

They say: “She’s weak—she should have pushed through it.” 

You say: Whoah! Obviously, her physical strength speaks for itself. Long before she set foot in Tokyo, she had already solidified her status as the greatest gymnast of all time. And I think you’re forgetting that she became the greatest gymnast of all time while holding national organizations accountable for the fact that former doctor Larry Nassar abused her and hundreds of other gymnasts. She’s shown strength beyond comprehension. 

In fact, she pushed herself to go to the Tokyo Olympics to do something even harder than gymnastics. As the final Olympic gymnast who survived Nassar, she has said that she feels responsible for continuing to hold U.S. Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee accountable for what she and other gymnasts say was a failure to keep them safe. “I feel like if there weren’t a remaining survivor in the sport, they would’ve just brushed it to the side,” she said ahead of the Games. “But since I’m still here, and I have quite a social media presence and platform—they have to do something.” 

We have no idea what it feels like to have the eyes of the world on you as you deal with the fallout of assault. But we know Biles isn’t weak. 

They say: She’s a quitter

You say: I disagree—is every person who’s ever taken a sick day a quitter? Biles’s historic decision will influence untold numbers of future athletes—and women—who will learn that it is okay to ask for help or take a break. Anyway, were you more upset about Simone Biles dropping out of the Olympics or about Larry Nassar abusing hundreds of gymnasts? 

They say: Well, she’s no longer the GOAT (greatest of all time). 

You say: Simone Biles is the greatest of all time because she’s capable of executing the hardest moves ever performed in gymnastics. She already has four Olympic golds and 19 world championship titles. Having a mental health challenge does not change that.