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Aug
For sports fans around the world, it’s a familiar image, one that’s etched into memories across the globe every four years. An athlete at the Olympics stands atop the podium with a medal draped around their neck and their face beaming with pride as their country’s national anthem plays over the venue’s loudspeakers. It’s often in that moment when the accomplishment becomes real, when a lifelong dream has been realized, the years of tireless work have been rewarded and an athlete can definitively say that they’re the best in the world at what they do. Sometimes, there’s another act that’s…