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Rosa Covarrubias

Breathe...Run

Your heart races every night, you want to stop, you want to end it all and if you ask for help, you question yourself, 'don't do it, they will call you weak', you answer yourself.
Breathe...Run
By Rosa Covarrubias

Concentrate... breathe... There you are, in front of a crowd, with your headphones on, 'what are you listening to', people ask: Eminem, Nero, Afrojack and Steve Aoki, something to help you be here and now... Loosen your legs and arms, everyone is watching you, you have to swim and win.

In your head there are thoughts, those bad thoughts that came to you in the Athens Olympics, "I didn't want to go on living" you confessed years later... or maybe, the pressure of being the best in history and what happened because of a photo of you that was published where you appeared smoking marijuana, that damn photo for which you were suspended for 3 months and they took away sponsorships, 'not a good example for the children', they said.

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