TOKYO — Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles are two different people who feel different things, and before we talk about what they have in common, inescapable pressure of their own necessary creation, we must acknowledge this.
“I would never want to speak for Simone, or say that I know what she's feeling,” Ledecky said here Wednesday. “Because none of us do.”
“But, I understand it,” she continued, and then she offered wisdom from a world that only a few human beings have ever visited.
Greatness, and the attitude it requires, Ledecky explained, “is a real blessing and a curse.