Everybody recognizes high-ranking athletes for the number of medals they have, but, have you ever thought of how it feels to carry an entire country on your back? All the time we forget that athletes aren't machines of success and this thinking can result in very dangerous consequences for them.
Actually, athletes must learn how to live with society's pressure? But is it part of their profession or is it that the people just don't allow them even to make a mistake? Professional athletes have to achieve optimum results, train a lot of hours and also deal with social media and journalists. All that causes them a lot of stress that if they don't know how to deal with, their lives can be affected negatively. One clear example is Delfina Pignatiello, an Argentinian swimmer that participated in the Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo. The bad comments she had about her performance made her take the decision of leaving swimming.
All in all, I have the opinion that apart from learning how to deal with the pressure that others put on us, we also have to learn not to be too self-demanding.
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