I'm motivated by the same things that would motivate any Olympic hopeful to try so hard for this.

But then there's also that aspect of like, by doing what I'm doing,

I am being the person that I needed to see when I was younger to show myself that who I am is okay.

This is Game Changer, a series from death, sex, and money,

about how the lives and livelihoods of American athletes have been upended this year.

I'm Anna Sale.

Thank you. I'm Anasale. Chelsea Wolf has been riding BMX freestyle since she was a teenager growing up in Florida.

And she's got the battle scars to prove it.

I had an accident where I flipped over the handlebars, smashed out my front six teeth,

crushed my jaw, split my lip in two places, broke my nose, and fractured a vertebrae in my neck.

I also have metal rods throughout my left leg.

The injuries in our sport are kind of unreal.

Like, it's definitely a tough thing to get yourself over the fear of, especially as, you

know, when you're in your mid-20s, you start to just naturally develop a sense of

self-preservation that you didn't have when you were younger.

Chelsea is 27 now. I talked with her from the condo near West Palm Beach where she lives today, not far from where she grew up.

We talked midday, before it was cool enough for her to get back out on the ramps at the local skate park where she normally trains.

It's just like an open to the public regular skate park.

Like there's no special training facility that I go to or anything.

When you show up, are you like a park celebrity or people like, there she is?

It kind of depends.

Honestly, it's funny because I've found that a lot of the local skateboarders have been

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