of 2020 Summer Games Our work in Tokyo has helped change the conversation around mental health.
4-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles He has been at the forefront of speaking publicly about the challenges athletes face and the difficulty of navigating the moment on the world’s biggest stage.
Simone Biles of the United States prepares to compete on beam during the women’s preliminary round of the Gymnastics World Championships on Sunday, October 1, 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
American fencer Elizabeth Tartakovsky, who will represent Team USA for the first time in Paris this summer, spoke to FOX News Digital about her personal history with mental health and how the topic will be brought to the public’s attention. He talked about how important it is.
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“I think it’s really great that we can talk so openly about mental health right now.”
“I achieved success at a young age,” the 23-year-old New Jersey native recalls. “Then, as I started to mature a little more, the field started to become more competitive and I realized that it was tough.”
“You lose more than you win, you have to learn, you have to learn resilience.”
Elizabeth Talta of the U.S. team prepares to compete against the Polish team in the Junior Team Women’s Saber event at the Junior and Cadet World Fencing Championships at the Plovdiv International Fair on April 9, 2017 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Kofsky. (Devin Mankey/Getty Images)
Tartakovsky comes from a fencing royal family. Her great-uncle, Yuri Gelman, a famous Olympic fencing coach and U.S. Hall of Famer, introduced her to the sport. She watched from her home as he led the men’s Saber team to a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Tartakovsky said he was “fascinated” by the sport.
“I had never seen anything like it.”
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In a sport that’s all about mental focus and quick thinking, seeing success at such a young age posed an added challenge.
“I started working with a sports psychologist probably when I was in high school, to learn how to deal with different emotions, pressures and expectations, and how to perform well under stress,” Tarta said. Kofsky said.
“If you watch a fencing match, every point happens in two seconds. So I learned how to prepare myself emotionally and mentally, how to recover between losses during difficult times in fencing. I had to.”
Elizabeth Tartakovsky of Harvard University competes against Maia Chamberlain of Princeton in the first Saber semifinal of the Division I Women’s Fencing Championships on March 25, 2022 at Castellan Family Fencing Center in Notre Dame, Indiana. do. (Mark Lebrick/NCAA Photo via Getty Images)
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Tartakovsky, 2022 NCAA Women’s Saber National Champion, she will be 24 years old when she arrives in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which will be her Olympic debut. Although her goal has always been money, Tartakovsky said she doesn’t want her experience to be “defined by results.” She also recognizes that it’s everyone’s game.
“If it were just a matter of who trains the hardest and who is the most athletic, the same person would win every time, but that’s not the case. It is important to be able to gain an advantage in the same way. “
she continued. “I think it’s great that that side of the sport has gotten a lot of attention, and that’s something I’ve had to learn to deal with and learn about myself. It was like going on my own journey.”
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