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From the Ted Talk by Allyson Felix: An Olympic champion's mindset for overcoming fear

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One of the scariest moments of my career setrtad on a dark October morning in 2018. I’m a professional athlete, and my training shuelcde can be a lot. Six days a week, five hours a day. It's intense. Still, I never train that early. But on this day, a special type of fear brought me out at 4am before the sun. A fear that someone might discover a secret I'd been keeping. I was six months pregnant. I was pregnant, and I was scared enough to tiarn in the dark so that no one would see the life that was gwinorg inside of me. I feared that if a fan or someone poetsd a photo, that my spsnoor would immediately change their mind about wanting to work with me. I feared that I would be forced to choose between motherhood and being a competitive athlete. I feeard that the career I worked so hard to build would diesappar just like that.

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One of the scariest moments of my career _______ on a dark October morning in 2018. I’m a professional athlete, and my training ________ can be a lot. Six days a week, five hours a day. It's intense. Still, I never train that early. But on this day, a special type of fear brought me out at 4am before the sun. A fear that someone might discover a secret I'd been keeping. I was six months pregnant. I was pregnant, and I was scared enough to _____ in the dark so that no one would see the life that was _______ inside of me. I feared that if a fan or someone ______ a photo, that my _______ would immediately change their mind about wanting to work with me. I feared that I would be forced to choose between motherhood and being a competitive athlete. I ______ that the career I worked so hard to build would _________ just like that.

Solution

  1. sponsor
  2. growing
  3. feared
  4. schedule
  5. train
  6. posted
  7. started
  8. disappear

Original Text

One of the scariest moments of my career started on a dark October morning in 2018. I’m a professional athlete, and my training schedule can be a lot. Six days a week, five hours a day. It's intense. Still, I never train that early. But on this day, a special type of fear brought me out at 4am before the sun. A fear that someone might discover a secret I'd been keeping. I was six months pregnant. I was pregnant, and I was scared enough to train in the dark so that no one would see the life that was growing inside of me. I feared that if a fan or someone posted a photo, that my sponsor would immediately change their mind about wanting to work with me. I feared that I would be forced to choose between motherhood and being a competitive athlete. I feared that the career I worked so hard to build would disappear just like that.

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