Life Will Never Be The Same For These Female Olympians. And That’s A Good Thing.

August 12, 2024

Winning an Olympic medal is most athletes’ ultimate dream. It marks the culmination of a lifetime of hard work, sacrifice, and determination. That Olympic glory creates overnight celebrities, turns casual fans into diehards, and these days, sparks plenty of viral memes. It also makes athletes very, very, tired.

Just ask Alex “Spiff” Sedrick, the United States rugby player who scored a last-second try to secure her team’s first-ever medal—a bronze—on August 30 in Paris. After three days of competition playing multiple matches per day, the players did a midnight interview followed by a full day of media interviews that started the next morning. Womens Health