Earning a place on the United States Olympic team is tough at the best of times ¡ª but booking your ticket to a third, fourth or even fifth games during a pandemic is an enormous challenge.
For those bidding to get another outing with Team USA, after navigating unprecedented challenges in the COVID-19 era and lingering uncertainty over whether the games would even go ahead, the experience that comes with age is invaluable.
¡°Whether it¡¯s a wreck on the road that makes you delayed getting to a game, whether it¡¯s rain causing you to have to stop in the third inning, things are out of your control,¡± twice Olympic softball player Cat Osterman said. ¡°You learn how to adapt.¡±
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