Hermann Maier, resilience, and how we should respond in a pandemic.
(Thread by a hack ski racer who currently cannot walk, about to go into surgery, but advising y'all.)
Here's our test subject, Hermann Maier, midair, realizing he'll crash at 70mph in the Olympic downhill. 1/x

It’s Nagano, 1998, with a blind jump about four gates down from the start where you have to pick a line coming out of a gate, but the 3 racers in front of Maier have landed all over the hill, so he can’t use their tracks as a guide. He’s flying. 2/x

Maier picked the wrong line, tries to change course in midair (not possible) and rolls over. In slo mo video you can see the moment he realizes, he’s not going to save it, and his new goal is not to get broken. (And at almost 75 mph you can. Badly.) 3/x