Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka stood high on the Olympic stairs, arms high, broadly smiling to the crowds after she lit the cauldron at the Tokyo Games’ open under the world’s watchful eyes, only to days later announce that she would drop out of competing.
Her admission was hardly surprising given her bowing out of Wimbledon and refusing to do mandatory press interviews after the French Open, admitting in a tweet that she had “suffered long bouts of depression” since the 2018 US Open, and wears headphones to “dull my social anxiety.”