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What happens next when your entire identity is tied to a gold medal, and you lose it by a tenth of a second?In this episode, we sit down with the most decorated track and field athlete in history. Holder of 31 world medals and 11 Olympic medals, but behind the historic medal counts lies a raw, rarely-told story of agonizing near-misses. Of intense media pressure as a high school phenom, and a crushing depression following the 2008 Beijing Olympics that almost made her walk away from the track forever.We pull back the curtain on the brutal reality of elite sports: the illusion of the "top of the mountain," the toxic perfectionism that paralyzes young athletes, and what it really feels like…