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Empathy at the Olympics
A month after the Olympics, I can’t remember every gold medalist who
heard their anthem ring. But, I also can’t get Felix Sánchez’s off my
mind. In Beijing 2008, the morning of his preliminary heat in the
400-meter hurdles, Sánchez of the Dominican Republic woke up to news
that his grandmother, who raised him as a child, had died. Sánchez, the
defending gold-medalist of the same event four years prior, ended up
placing 22nd overall...
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