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Here\u2019s how they cope with it.Listen to this article \u00b7 7:45 min Learn moreShare full articleThe snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis at the 2022 Olympics, 16 years after she crashed in the final stretch of the race at her first Games in Torino.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar\/The New York TimesBy Gloria LiuFeb. 11, 2026Every Winter Olympics, Lindsey Jacobellis was forced to relive her most public failure. At the 2006 Games in Torino, Italy, the snowboard cross star was only 20 years old when she attempted a stylish grab in the final stretch of a race and crashed, losing her significant lead \u2014 and the gold medal. At the next three Olympics, Ms. Jacobellis couldn\u2019t forget her devastating blunder \u2014 and others wouldn\u2019t let her either. Reporters asked about it in press conferences. Strangers, not knowing who she was, brought up the woman who \u201ctotally blew it\u201d in snowboard cross. In 2010 and 2014, she didn\u2019t even make the finals.Today, Ms. Jacobellis still has a hard time watching any sports competition, even the Super Bowl. When the camera pans over the ecstatic winner, she said, \u201cI immediately feel for that other individual.\u201dFor every victory at the Games, there are many more heartbreaks. A majority of athletes don\u2019t earn a medal, and even those who do, but fail to win gold, can experience profound disappointment.\u201cThey have a dream that many of them have had since childhood, and in some cases it dies right in front of the world,\u201d said Michael Gervais, a psychologist who coaches Olympians and other elite athletes. But \u201cthe best have a framework to move through it,\u201d he added.Learning resilienceFor top athletes, grappling with failure is a job requirement, said David Fletcher, a professor of human performance and health at Loughborough University in Britain. A key difference between the best athletes and the rest of us is that they see challenges as opportunities for growth rather than threats, he said.While being naturally optimistic or conscientious helps, researchers say that to some extent, resilience can be learned. What we might perceive as mental Teflon in top athletes is also the result of a lifetime of practice.Today, sports psychology and mental skills training are increasingly common in elite competition, and much of the work to bolster an athlete\u2019s psychological hardiness happens long before the Games.Just as psychologists have athletes visualize their wins, they also ask them to imagine all the things that could go wrong, and how they\u2019ll respond, said Jessica Bartley, senior director of psychological services for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee.Athletes also use self-talk to overcome disappointment and regain composure, especially during competition. Dr. Gervais has his athletes prepare ahead of time by writing down their self-talk \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m a tough competitor,\u201d for example \u2014 as well as three experiences that have proved that self-talk. \u201cIt needs to be believable,\u201d he said.The power of purposeResearch suggests that people who have a sense of purpose in life deal with stress more effectively. Dr. Gervais has athletes identify their goals beyond winning, such as achieving personal growth or representing a marginalized group. When an athlete\u2019s motivations feel anchored to something bigger than medals, he said, \u201cdisappointment is painful, but it\u2019s not terminal.\u201dHaving multiple bars to measure success can help athletes to hedge against disappointment, Dr. Fletcher said, adding that the best athletes set what are known as process-oriented goals, meaning those within their control, as opposed to just performance-oriented goals, which are based on results. If they lose a race, they can still say they achieved other goals, like improving their technique, pacing or fueling strategy.As part of identifying purpose, psychologists like Dr. Gervais also have athletes make plans for their life after competition.The two-time gold-medalist skier Ted Ligety said that his work managing an eyewear and helmet company during his racing career, and his plan to do so full-time after retirement, gave him something else to focus on beyond his sport.\u201cIt showed me there were other cool things out there,\u201d he said. He said his plans helped him eventually transition into what he called \u201cthe civilian world\u201d after a disappointing 15th-place result at the 2018 Olympics.Grit as a team effortA person\u2019s environment and support system are important elements of grit, said Michael Ungar, a professor of social work and director of the Resilience Research Center at Dalhousie University in Canada.An athlete overcoming an injury, for example, might have a support system of physical therapists, family and friends who drive them to appointments and sponsors who continue to pay them.Dr. Fletcher emphasized that an athlete\u2019s perceived social support, rather than actual, is most important. He asks athletes to list the people or support systems they have in their lives, along with how often they\u2019ve relied on them recently. This not only boosts their perception of the help they have available but illuminates where they could ask for more.It\u2019s also critical to have supporters who care about the athlete as an individual, not just a performer, said Lauren Loberg, a mental performance coach who works with Olympians.In 2002, the speedskater Shani Davis qualified for his first Olympics, then immediately endured months of scrutiny and unwanted media attention when another skater accused him of colluding with teammates to fix the race. At the 2006 Games, he was disparaged for skipping the team skating event to focus on his individual races. (Some suggested the criticism was racially fueled.) Controversy continued to follow Mr. Davis through his Olympic career, though he went on to win four medals. Support from childhood friends helped him handle these challenges, he said.\u201cMy identity wasn\u2019t just tied to being a speedskater, but having real-life friends I grew up with who really know who I am as a person.\u201dAcceptance is the goalFor all of these athletes, their Olympic disappointment still hurts. One said her experience remains a \u201csorrow-inducing memory.\u201d Another described his feeling as akin to losing a loved one. Image\u201cI see people celebrating their Olympic medals, all euphoric, and I\u2019m like, man, I wish I could have had that feeling,\u201d the speedskater Shani Davis said.Credit...Kim Stallknecht for The New York TimesDisappointment can activate the same parts of the brain that \u201clight up\u201d during grief, Dr. Gervais said. And like grief, Dr. Loberg said, an Olympic disappointment can take years to process.Today, these athletes appear to have arrived at some semblance of acceptance. If coming in ninth or fifteenth in the Olympics is \u201ca low, you\u2019ve got to put things in perspective,\u201d Mr. Ligety said.But Dr. Loberg pointed out that these athletes all had generally luminous careers, which may have made it easier for them to reframe and process their experiences enough to share their stories at all. Some Olympians, she said, end up suffering from depression or substance abuse. \u201cUnfortunately, the ones who go into that dark space, who can\u2019t say \u2018that\u2019s life,\u2019 we don\u2019t know about them, right?\u201dPsychologists fall on a spectrum of how much they believe resilience is rooted in personality, as opposed to learned skills. But for most of us, almost any deliberate practice \u2014 using techniques like meditation, visualization or self-talk \u2014 could make a real difference, Dr. Gervais said.After Ms. Jacobellis\u2019s disappointing results in 2010 and 2014, she and her coach determined that they had exhausted every avenue of physical conditioning. In 2016, she began mental skills training. In the 2018 Games, she reached the finals for the first time since 2006. Four years later, at 36, she won not one gold medal but two.After every Olympics, she considered retiring. But knowing the season immediately after the Games was always fun and relaxed, she\u2019d resolve to compete for one more year; if she stopped enjoying herself, she\u2019d quit.\u201cAnd by the end of that season,\u201d she said, \u201cI\u2019d be like, \u2018I still have the fire.\u2019\u201d So she just kept going.Gloria Liu is a writer in Northern California.Read 11 commentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT", "ai_headline": "What Olympians Can Teach Us About Disappointment", "ai_simplified_title": "Olympians Cope With Disappointment After Olympic Failure", "ai_excerpt": "This article explores how elite athletes, particularly Olympians, cope with the inevitable disappointment of failure. It highlights the importance of resilience, mental skills training, and support systems in navigating setbacks and achieving acceptance. 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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a5-6066-451d-8169-d3cc2d18e0f3Simplified: Dealing with failure is part of the job for elite athletes
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Historical π a11647a5-8ce9-4f41-92d3-b49d7b66070fSimplified: Snowboard cross star Lindsey Jacobellis crashed in the final stretch of a race at the 2006 Games in Torino Italy losing her lead and gold medal
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Historical π a11647a5-a936-4605-82c5-9f8c44895e3fSimplified: Lindsey Jacobellis could not forget her blunder at the next three Olympics
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Historical π a11647a5-c812-4b8e-9291-a2e4e5004feaSimplified: Lindsey Jacobellis did not make the finals in 2010 and 2014
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π€ Michael Gervais π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a6-1dbe-4962-9b7f-f3acd0c84e60Simplified: The best athletes have a framework to move through disappointment
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π€ David Fletcher π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a6-453e-46df-8cdb-4d2dce2ebcb1Simplified: Best athletes see challenges as opportunities for growth rather than threats
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Simplified: Resilience can be learned to some extent
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a6-879a-45f6-95cf-702aa77bd7bfSimplified: Sports psychology and mental skills training are increasingly common in elite competition
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π€ Dr. Gervais π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a6-dcc7-4717-9458-6521a0d2d0bcSimplified: Dr Gervais has athletes prepare by writing down self-talk and three experiences that prove it
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Simplified: Self-talk needs to be believable
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Simplified: People with a sense of purpose deal with stress more effectively
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π€ Dr. Fletcher π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a7-75e0-4a6b-9c34-0da75d7fa233Simplified: Athletes can still achieve other goals if they lose a race
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Historical π a11647a7-abcc-4560-abac-a8415af2bcbcSimplified: Ted Ligety transitioned into the civilian world after a disappointing 15th-place result at the 2018 Olympics
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Simplified: A person's environment and support system are important elements of grit
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Simplified: An athlete overcoming an injury might have a support system
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π€ Dr. Fletcher π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Psychology π a11647a8-19f1-4dc1-9a40-4c8e13b7b598Simplified: An athlete's perceived social support is most important
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Sports , Historical π a11647a8-6271-4b76-9f19-9e9e1660a79eSimplified: Support helped Shani Davis win four medals
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π€ Dr. Gervais π News Article π·οΈ Health , Psychology π a11647a8-8750-4505-9824-a7c7b8bcf896Simplified: Disappointment can activate same brain parts that light up during grief Dr Gervais said
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Simplified: Olympic disappointment can take years to process Dr Loberg said
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Simplified: If coming ninth or fifteenth in Olympics is low you got to put things in perspective Mr Ligety said