ISABELLE WESTBURY

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Every athlete dies twice. Once when they take their last breath, and the other when they hang it up. Throughout my teens and early 20s, I thought this cliché belonged only to cult films like Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans, or the corniest of all, Rocky. It was neat, but not a feature of real life, surely.
It is perhaps as a reflection of my own advancing age, or departure from a brief flirtation with professional sport, that this is a phrase which suddenly fe...