I know you've been asked a few times now about a future career in politics.

I will just ask it this way, what is appealing to you about that and what is

unappealing to you about that? I'm going to ask you a question first

and I want you to be really honest because I always think this when I get

asked this question. Like, do you think I should go into politics?

I'm John Favreau. Welcome to offline.

Hi there. Our guest this week is Megan Repino, one of the best soccer players and athletes

in the world. And she's here to talk about what it's like to compete in an

environment where most of the spectators are online strangers with lots of

opinions about your performance. I thought Megan would be good for this

conversation for a few reasons. She just competed in the Tokyo Summer Olympics,

which were pretty weird this year thanks to the Delta variant.

Athletes couldn't leave their hotels, didn't know if some last minute

breakthrough case would force them to drop out and had to mostly compete

without any cheering fans. Just weird fake crowd noise that was pumped through

the speakers. So naturally, a lot of athletes spent

more time than usual on their phones and for some of them, that wasn't very

helpful. Sooningly, an American gymnast said that after she won the gold

medal in the gymnastics all around, she got so distracted by all the social

media attention that she didn't do as well in the uneven bars and she

decided to quit Twitter after that. Other Olympic athletes talked about being

the target of misogynistic attacks, cyberbullying, even death threats.

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