February marks the celebration of Black History Month. This year's theme — according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History — is 'Resistance.' Yahoo Sports will feature a series of stories highlighting the achievements of pioneering African Americans whose very being is a form of resistance against the status quo in their respective fields.
Jun 20, 2021; Omaha, Nebraska, USA; Simone Manuel reacts after winning the women's 50m freestyle final during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials Swimming competition at CHI Health Center Omaha. Mandatory Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports - 16286951February marks the celebration of Black History Month. This year's theme — according to the— is"Resistance.
"It's really hard to be vulnerable when your story can sometimes be discredited or dismissed. And so I was really afraid of that when putting this out," Manuel told Yahoo Sports. “People didn’t believe that I actually was overtrained,” Manuel said in the documentary produced by TOGETHXR, a media company she co-founded with fellow USA Olympic gold medallists Alex Morgan, Sue Bird and Chloe Kim.
on her shoulders. Her time in Tokyo presented a new iteration of a familiar pressure to be great in and out of the pool. Only this time, she had to learn to cope with the limitations that overtraining syndrome put on her performance. Manuel spent six months away from training between her hometown of Houston and California, where she was living at the time. The choice to rest was distinctly different from her post-Rio experience, when she threw herself into training, and philanthropic and advocacy efforts.
Her documentary starts with recollections of her youth, being the only Black girl at the pool and dealing with racist comments. It ends with her hopes for the future:
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