Isaiah Jewett’s Nightmare Scenario at the Olympics Was Anything But

For Jewett, that meant looking to lessons learned from his favorite anime characters. He spoke about the perseverance, the heroics and the dogged determination to get up again and again.

“I could feel myself start to get down,” he said, thinking back to his fall on Aug. 1, “but for some reason I looked over at the other competitor and saw the defeat on his face, and the hero I wanted to be came out. So I said, ‘Let’s get up and finish this race.’”

When asked how he was able to move through those emotions so quickly, Jewett paused.

He was overtaken with empathy for Amos, he said. “At that moment, when I saw him, and the way he looked so down, it hurt me,” Jewett said. “I didn’t want to hurt, and I didn’t want him to hurt. I wanted to do something that was good, to do something that was right.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/sports/olympics/Isaiah-Jewett-Tokyo-Olympics.html