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And then imagine losing it all, all at once, through no fault of your own.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA speed skater Kristen Santos-Griswold, who will compete Thursday in the 500-meter event, has spent the past four years trying to skate out from under a cloud of what-if. Four years ago in Beijing, Santos, at her first Olympics, was leading on the final lap of the 1000m medal race. A gold medal was just a lap away.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And then Italy\u2019s Arianna Fontana attempted a daring move, diving inside Santos-Griswold to attempt to capture the lead. The two skaters became entangled and spun out on the ice. Fontana\u2019s move was later deemed illegal, but that wasn\u2019t enough to give Santos-Griswold a medal; Olympic records will always show she finished fourth, just off the podium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hardest part about this sport,\u201d Santos-Griswold said recently, \u201cis that kind of concept of, you can be the best, you can be the fastest, and things just don&#8217;t work out for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Already older than most of her competitors, with another heartbreaking near-miss in her history \u2014 a badly-timed injury cost her a probable spot in the 2018 Olympics \u2014 Santos-Griswold knew her best chance at an Olympic medal might have just shattered on the Beijing ice.<\/p>\n<p>But she also knew she still had more to give to this maddening, exhilarating sport.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Kristen Santos-Griswold was crashed out of the 1000m by Italy&#8217;s Arianna Fontana while in the lead at the 2022 Olympics. (Manan VATSYAYANA \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-credit\"> (MANAN VATSYAYANA via Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"heading\" data-jump-link-target=\"\" id=\"the-long-road-back-from-beijing\"><strong>The long road back from Beijing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAfter 2022 was really hard. I&#8217;m not going to lie, I had to take a little bit of a step back from the sport and really reflect and decide if it was something that I wanted to keep doing,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn&#8217;t really talk to my family that much or other people because everyone&#8217;s got an opinion about what you should do. I really needed to make that decision for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>She spent months wrestling with the decision of whether to commit another four years to the Olympics, weighing the pros and cons of shaping her life around another moment that could slip right from her fingers. But in the end, the decision was obvious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew if I stepped away at that moment,\u201d she says, \u201cI would regret it forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What followed for Santos-Griswold was an intense period of self-examination, an attempt to understand why exactly her entire identity was wrapped up in being a skater. She began figure skating in Connecticut at age 3, then switched to speed skating at 9 when she saw races on the Disney Channel. And from that day to now, at age 31, Santos-Griswold\u2019s life has focused on and revolved around speed skating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept of being an athlete, and being specifically a speed skater, has really defined my whole life,\u201d Santos-Griswold says. \u201cAnd thinking that you&#8217;re done with that, and no longer going to be an athlete, can be really daunting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Seeing that end coming \u2014 combined with the acceptance of the inherent unfair nature of speed skating \u2014 helped clarify her understanding of how to prepare for Milan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day [leading up to Beijing], I thought about the Olympics. Every single thing I did was like, how is this going to affect me at the Olympics?\u201d she recalls. \u201cI ate right. I slept right. I trained right. I did everything right and it still didn&#8217;t happen for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The solution, then, was to begin the long, slow separation of self from skater. She began to focus on the journey rather than the destination, enjoying the moments that \u201cnormal,\u201d non-Olympians appreciate all the time \u2014 going out for an unscheduled bite to eat, taking a day off training to attend a friend\u2019s wedding. Standard days for the rest of us, stark breaks with training and regimentation for Olympians.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>She also had to put 2022 into context of the rest of her life. \u201cI was definitely angry. I was upset. I was resentful. It feels unfair,\u201d she says. \u201cIt&#8217;s so unfair to be so close to be in the last lap of the 1000, be about to medal, and get taken out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acceptance of that moment, and of the sport that led to it, helped her heal from the pain of the loss. \u201cI chose the sport. I chose to be there every day on the ice. And I think that that&#8217;s something that makes the sport that much more exciting,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery win is that much more special. Because you didn&#8217;t just overcome the physical things for it. You overcame so many mental aspects. And you had to adapt so much within a single race.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><img alt=\"ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - MARCH 17: Wolrd Champion Kristen Santos-Griswold of United States of America competing on the Women's 1000m Final A on Day 3 during the ISU World Short Track Championships 2024 at Rotterdam Ahoy on March 17, 2024 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. 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(Marcel ter Bals\/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-credit\"> (DeFodi Images via Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"heading\" data-jump-link-target=\"\" id=\"the-fire-returned-and-so-did-the-wins\"><strong>The fire returned, and so did the wins<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Soon enough, a funny thing happened \u2014 she won, and kept on winning. In 2024, she became the first American short-track speed skater to capture world championship medals at all three individual distances (500m, 1000m and 1500m) at the same event since speed skating became an Olympic sport in 1992. The next year, she won her first Crystal Globe, awarded to the best overall short-track skater, and ended the season ranked No. 1 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, she also finally watched a replay of the catastrophic Beijing race for the first time since it occurred. She wept, feeling the pain of the moment, but she also saw the possibilities and the missed opportunities in the race, too. She was in position to medal, yes, but perhaps she could have positioned herself better \u2026 or perhaps there was nothing she could have done whatsoever. Sometimes, things just go sideways.<\/p>\n<p>And now, starting with this week\u2019s 500m event, she\u2019s racing with a new mantra: Untouchable. To her, that means her goal now is \u201cto be ahead, and so far ahead that no one could affect my race,\u201d she says. \u201cThis sport is really unpredictable, and a lot that you can\u2019t control. The best way to control other people is to make it so they can\u2019t even affect how you\u2019re going to race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Santos-Griswold isn\u2019t the same racer she was in 2022. She\u2019s married, she has a college degree, she freely admits that she doesn\u2019t have the energy of her younger teammates. She\u2019s full into her \u201cwork smarter, not harder\u201d era.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, she\u2019s also more centered than she\u2019s ever been, more willing to put in the hard work without a guarantee of a result, and accept that which she cannot change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to really sit there and think, if in four years the same thing happens again, would that be worth it?\u201d she says. \u201cObviously, I\u2019m here. So I did decide that it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/olympics\/article\/winter-olympics-four-years-after-last-lap-heartbreak-kristen-santos-griswold-returns-for-one-more-shot-at-gold-093412923.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN \u2014 Imagine having everything you\u2019ve wished for, everything you\u2019ve worked for, everything you\u2019ve trained for, right there in front of you, just a few seconds away. 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