A lot of things went wrong in 2021, but athletes discussing mental health is not one of them

It's been a long time coming, with too much quiet suffering along the way, but we may have finally reached the place where it is fine for the world's best athletes to be "OK not being OK" in public.

Dec 17, 2021

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A lot of things went wrong in 2021, but athletes discussing mental health is not one of them

It's been a long time coming, with too much quiet suffering along the way, but we may have finally reached the place where it is fine for the world's best athletes to be "OK not being OK" in public.

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