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says, and given that you guys just said we're in our 40s, most athletes end up losing their identity, the whole thing that they are, by the time that they're 40, and there is no replacing it.
It's not just the structure and the discipline of how it is you lived your life, because I did marvel at the fact
that Serena played as long as she did because that sport is lonely.
It's exhausting.
It's kind of boring when you're not playing that you have to practice that much on the sculpting of sort of some singular things.
And so I figured that anyone who left tennis would want basically nothing to do with tennis.
But
you never replace the competitive thing that made you great.
There's no place to put it as you age.
And so in some places, I think it's harder for athletes to hit what is the midlife crisis because it's technically the end of life crisis on what their identity has been.
You can't pour that much of yourself into something and have it not be a lopsided form of who it is you are.
And so we're still working in our 40s.
All of us are still doing the thing that we like.
But when you're an athlete, you're lucky if you even get to 40, obviously.
So I would imagine that Serena Williams has a hard time replacing what it was to be Serena Williams.
Well, she's also doing advertising.
And I wanted to ask you guys about this because it's not a conversation that I see happening anywhere.
And I think it's probably something that should be happening somewhere.
She's doing commercials, OK, for weight loss injections, which are very vogue right now.
And I wonder when sports is gonna catch up to some of that stuff and peptides as performance enhancers.