ST. LOUIS (AP) — There have been plenty of times when it would have been easy for Chris Brooks to bail. To look at the maze of scars on his body and his long-term prospects of making an Olympic team and been like, "Dude, I'm out."
He can't quite pinpoint what made him stick around. Habit probably. Stubbornness, too. Brooks would rather not look inward too deeply, that would mean the ride he started more than 20 years ago is almost over. And it's not. Not yet.
The guy who longtime friend and two-time Olympian Jon Horton calls "a victim of the sport" is on the cusp of trip to Rio de Janeiro.