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The Olympic experience is so difficult for athletes to process.

And to get there, there's so much sacrifice, there's so much imbalance that when they come out of the Olympic games, the overwhelming majority of athletes suffer what has now been called,

like, well, the post-Olympic blues or whatever it may be, but there's a very, very difficult

transition coming from the Olympics back to civilian life or back to whatever that life is.

It may be going back into college. You're still

competing. It doesn't really matter because you go from relative anonymity to this global stage

where really the whole world is kind of celebrating what you do. And it's very hard, I think,

and abrupt. It's just difficult, I think, to process that and make sense of that.

I'm not sure it does make sense.

And I think that athletes really suffer for that.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. You know, I've been doing this thing for a long time.

I wouldn't say I was part of the first wave, more like the second wave, but I've been at it

long enough to be considered a bit of an OG in the space.

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