My new favorite athlete is Australian high-jumper Nicola Olyslagers, who before every jump looks into the camera, smiles, and talks to someone (family? God?), and after every jump trots back to her corner to write in her journal. She ended up with another silver medal (which she also won in Tokyo). When her husband suggested that she shift to an iPad, she was adamant: “There’s nothing like pen to paper.”
UPDATE: Turns out I’m not the only one who was obsessed by this competition. “Nicola Olyslager’s notebook v Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s sleeping bag. That’s what it all comes down to now.”