Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open and the mental health impact on young athletes (6/1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘withdrawal’ as in Naomi Osaka has withdrew from the French Open, one of the four tennis majors, citing mental health reasons. She released a statement about why she would withdraw. This came after she said she would not be doing press conferences because of the anxiety she deals with during those events. Let’s have a discussion about mental health, pressure in sports on young athletes, and the “job”. (22:50) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Another night of NBA playoff action and another night where a fan was arrested and ban from the arena. This time the fan actually ran out onto the court and was tackled. Someone asked me what rule changes I’d make to make sure this doesn’t happen anymore. (36:10) Review: Mare of Easttown. (39:20) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's go.
0:20.0	With draw, nothing personal word of the day.
0:22.9	It's the first day of June, 2021.
0:26.7	I don't know how it got to be June so quickly.
0:30.4	With draw, as in Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French open, one of the major tennis
0:38.2	tournaments, this is getting worldwide attention than I am Naomi Osaka situation.
0:45.8	We covered it yesterday, but there's much more to cover today because 24 hours has passed.
0:52.6	And it's been a very telling 24 hours.
0:56.1	It's been full of debate.
0:58.1	I've had debates with Koka.
0:59.7	I've had debates with friends, family, talking about this issue.
1:05.3	So many layers that I want to organize my thoughts in a way that will help frame the issue for
1:13.0	you to think about what role you have in the Naomi Osaka situation.
1:21.4	Even if you don't like tennis, even if you've never seen her play, even if you don't know
1:26.4	that the French open is going on right now, or you didn't know until all of this news
1:31.2	about Naomi.
1:32.2	And I'm going to call her Naomi because that's her name.
1:35.5	I referred to her as Osaka yesterday.
1:37.7	Her name's Naomi.
1:40.8	She withdrew from mental health reasons.
1:45.0	Saying she didn't want to meet the media.
1:47.0	Didn't want to do the press conferences because she was more concerned with her mental
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