Yeah, I'm naturally quite good at both those sports and I love them, both to do and to watch at a high level. But I'm also very glad I never really got to find out how good I had the potential to be because the odds are my life would have been destroyed and I wouldn't have the reasonably good expectation I currently have of a long, physically healthy old age.

And I worry about the kids, especially the girls, involved in the new Olympic fields like skateboarding and breakdancing, because they could very easily go the same way. As in both, elite girls are able to perform impressive moves that elite adult women can't. You just have to look at the ages of the women's skateboarding medalists at the last Olympics, all teenagers, mostly aged 13. (Kokona Hiraki was actually still 12). And child athletes at the peak of their career can be taken advantage of in other ways too. I could write an essay about how Sky Brown is being treated. She's an extremely talented kid with a great work ethic, but one that I believe is being taken advantage of. But that's little to do with the topic at hand.