After long wait for victory bowler Shayna Ng offers a tearful lesson Keep the faith

Talent is only an opinion till winning establishes it as fact. Every week of every year athletes are engaged in this giving of proof. And yet there’s never enough of it. You win and people say great but what’s next? So you sip some champagne and return to the ascetic life. You’re a headline for a day, then you’re like everyone else. Chasing silver.

It never gets easier. The next win just won’t come and doubt arrives like a bully. You flinch at struggling form and watch your birthdays pass. Your head is a small room of competing voices asking uncomfortable questions.

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