Stephanie Soo argues that while athletes possess addictive personalities due to their drive to win, this does not excuse predatory or harmful behavior toward others.

“but there are so many people battling with addiction that would never do something like this ever ever in a million years they would rather hurt themselves than hurt another person so this is not sympathy for this guy literally [ __ ] this guy”

Olympic athletes experience a difficult, often disorienting transition back to civilian life after competition because their identity is too narrowly tied to their performance.

“In my experience the overwhelming majority of athletes suffer what has now been, you know, called like, well, the post Olympic blues or whatever it may be. But there's a very, very difficult transition coming from the Olympics back to civilian life or back to whatever that life is.”