Three years after becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic gold in wrestling, Helen Maroulis was told she was about to be admitted to a psychiatric ward with suicidal thoughts.
“I just don’t remember anything after that,” Maroulis tells CNN Sport about her admission, adding that she was released a few days later. “I was completely normal, and all of a sudden they put me in this psych ward.
” It was after one incident mid-match, a “freak accident” in 2019 in which she was slapped in the ear at practice, that Maroulis found herself in that psychiatric ward. In the two years that followed, she says she tried to hide how she had been affected by the head injuries. “As an athlete, you don’t want to show any weakness,” Maroulis says. “I knew that there was … a lot of expectation on me at this point in my career.
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