BEIJING — Sports fans sometimes talk about an athlete “deserving” more attention, and the word always feels a bit off. These are people who are good at sports, and it’s fun to watch them and talk about them. But nobody really deserves attention for that.
This story is the exception.
Lindsey Jacobellis deserves NBC prime-time coverage, big-font headlines, social-media posts and to be the subject of whatever the COVID-era version of water-cooler conversation is. That’s the kind of treatment she got 16 years ago, when she made one of the most infamous mistakes in Olympic history.