RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dance parties. Dark chocolate. Calls to mom.
All are helping Missy Franklin cope with an Olympics gone wrong.
A huge star at the London Games four years ago, Franklin was one of the biggest U.S. disappointments in Rio de Janeiro — an inexplicable fall she's at a loss to explain.
"I really wish I could tell you," Franklin said Thursday, not long before her final race. "In my mind, I made the hardest sacrifices I've ever had to make this year. I've poured myself into this every single day for the whole year and the three years leading up to that.