An interesting perspective. comments seem to cluster around two extremes, 1) she is a woke-child who abandoned her teammates or 2) poor girl is a victim and mental-health trumps everything
I agree with you about how this reflects on society. I'm reminded that at the height of the Roman Empire, there were were a few gladiators who in their day, were the wealthiest Romans alive.
The Roman Empire is a font of depressingly familiar phenomena.
It’s not just the U.S., of course. All over the world, children are pulled into athletic machine-programs that do not have the children’s best interest in mind.