Horror is the first emotion that rips through your body when you see an athlete suffer a gruesome injury. Like the expansion of the universe in the first milliseconds after the big bang, the horror shoots through the lining of your stomach and nestles deep into every crevice of your soul. You’re all at once confronted with a truth that, on most days, we all manage to hide from our consciousness: that the human body is just meat and bones, an imperfect vehicle that limits even the most finely-tuned athletes.
The second emotion that you feel is pain.