Not Always Won: Olympic Athletes Teach Us About Disappointment

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At each edition of the Winter Olympics, Lindsey Jacobellis was forced to relive her most public failure. At the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy, the snowboarding star across was only 20 years old when she tried to make a showy record on the final stage of a race and fell, thus losing her broad advantage... and the gold medal. At the next three Olympic Games, Jacobellis could not forget her devastating mistake. And people wouldn’t let her forget it ei…