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>> i grew up resenting sports, when you are a black kid everybody knows you will be over six foot tall and every conversation goes to you play basketball. i didn't eighth grade and i went the entire season without scoring a point. when i lived in chicago i discovered michael jordan. i took it personally. that is the thing about sports, we often take it personally, i am somehow a grown man that hates adults for no good reason. sports gives us a place to offer all of our unchecked anger to everybody involved, if there is one city that revels in its love of winners and hatred of losers, it is my

former hometown boston. for a small city it has a chip on its shoulder and boston sports fans would say it is a championship and lots of them. >> if you are born in boston, you are raised to be a boston sports fan. >> what happened? >> they threw me out. >> i said let's go. >> no matter where you go, in a single moment a athletes can go from the goat to a goat and reputation and value is already up for debate. >> i will do some word association. tom brady. >> goat. >> i love tom brady. >> i used to love tom, he decided to leave us.

>> did the patriots ever cheat to take again? bill buckner. >> idiot. >> bill buckner. >> he let a ball go through his legs at a world series game and it lost the game. boston was hard on him, he had to move. those that come with a paycheck >> they are still human though. >> athletes, human? do not tell tom brady but not every athlete is a robotlike brady. all of the pressure and criticism we put on them effects their mental health and many are speaking up telling fans where to stick the fandom. >> simone biles pulled out of

the women's gymnastics final today. >> she just pulled herself out of the team competition due to mental reasons. >> of course fans are handling that maturely. >> they are using words like selfish and entitled. >> do you think sports have gotten softer? >> 100%. we need to put our big pants on. >> we did a home run. >> where you going after this? home to go to sleep? >> i am a boston native. we are going nuts for the bruins. what do we do in boston? let's go. boston.

>> the fans, a group of people that turn fine into the struggle for the immortal soul of a city. so i will start with fans who are more like me, in it for the thrill of victory part rather than the crushing your enemies part. >> what is your sports fandom? >> mets fan. >> it is not about them, it is about the suffering. >> this is my friend rence, a boston globe columnist robert two decades. >> i am from minnesota and i transferred my fandom to the red sox. >> i am like i am a new yorker, i am not playing that. >> you cannot even go into the boroughs. >> i could not go in my house. because of my family.

>> i was in chicago, if you were not going to pay attention to the michael jordan era, i do not know what kind of human you are. let's talk about those group of people. >> that is not fandom. it is trendy. fandom is the thick and thin of it. it is the fanatic part of it. years ago i dated a woman and she bought me a watchman tv so i could take it with me. i keep excusing myself and i'm trying to catch the game. >> it is a night of rioting and starting fires for disappointed fans. >> there is a part of sports that becomes super toxic as far

as fandom and expectations on athletes. >> people were booing david ortiz. i thought you cannot boo him at fenway? i have heard it that yankee stadium and people think i pay this money and i have the right to do this. also there is something baked into sports in this country where booing is a part of it. abuse is a part of it, it is actually part of the ritual. >> that is toxic. this idea that somehow your health is irrelevant in your job is to be a show horse and it out and entertain the people and you make a lot to do that, that ugliness is impossible to divorce from what professional sports is. >> are we mature enough as a culture for sports? how do you defend sports to people who have criticisms? >> i will cite one example.

after the boston marathon farm income that is where big poppies said this is our city and the entire city exhaled. i felt like boston strongmen something. i felt linked to the city in a different way. i do not know if anything else can do that but sports. it sounds clichc but i think it is true. >> maybe only for a moment but it is a moment that resonates. >> some of you are watching now thinking, rence and ellen are not typical sports fans. i know what you want. you want more boston. more how do you like them apples boston, white guys from southie. okay. >> basketball is the first sport i got into. russell is my favorite.

our first goat. >> they are the guys in the bar that have all of the opinions about all of the sports. for them there is no off- season. >> one of the biggest things. remember? >> those were the glories glory days though. those days are gone. >> how do you know these people? >> i bartend at a dive bar. >> that is not what it is called right? >> the nickname is what he from the previous owner. i met him through his mother and he gave me my first bruins ticket. i met him there. >> if i walked into whitey's tonight, what i get the look of you are not in the right place? southie does not have the best reputation for people like me. >> they are a little worried. a place called the why these.

it is not a good look. >> you have seen depictions in all of the big boston movies. traditionally a white working class neighborhood with mob ties and a accent that actors absolutely what you're. >> people think we hate everybody and we are racist. we are bad , we are family with pride and respect. >> tell me about boston as a sports town. >> the biggest question in sports is loyalty, rivalry and pride and back then that was it. these days it is about money. or royalty. james. he is talented but he is going boo-hoo, he only got 300 million in the bank. >> do you think it hurts sports that players are greedy? >> we can have a's consistency because people want more money.

>> do you think sports has gotten soft? >> beyond words. it really is. >> i worked in healthcare for a long time. that is a real thing. if somebody needs it i can appreciate it but basketball i do not feel is the same as before, they do not play hard enough. now they are afraid they will foul. >> basketball is like this and then you fell. what you mean foul? what a embarrassment that is. >> what you think when you hear somebody like simone biles saying i will not compete tomorrow. >> i learned a lot about gymnastics during that period of time. >> she is hotter than anybody sitting here today. but her feet are more messed up than mine from all of that flipping around. you know what i means? she is not soft.

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conversation has ever been normal before. >> as quiet as it is kept, gymnastics is as hard a sport as they come, football is tough but they wear pads, the only pads you see here are the calluses. >> all right cartwheel. >> you better get in front of me. >> i do not know if you know this but competitive gymnastics is hard. >> just a little bit. >> coaches sarah, rihanna and mike have been teaching at reading gymnastics for 30 years. while this may be the 7-10-year- old class, this is not child's play. >> my goodness. >> if you are competitive, what is your daily schedule like? >> to go to school and then

come into this practice. >> what time are you leaving here? >> 9 most days. >> then you go do homework. is it too much? >> gymnasts are so disciplined, if you can handle gymnastics you can handle anything. >> how did i do today? >> good. >> will ever be as good as you? >> no. >> i think it is fair, i appreciate your honesty. >> with you want to do in gymnastics? how far do you want to go? >> olympics. >> probably a teacher. >> you ghost at the olympics? >> when little kids start i imagine there goal is i want to go to at the olympics. how do you negotiate that when

most of humanity does not go to at the olympics. >> we have totally crushed dreams. we would know now if you are going to at the olympics. >> let me tell you my story, my older daughter got promoted to the higher-level upstairs. she is just a kid having a good time. both of them ended up not enjoying what was going on because upstairs it was not fun. downstairs my daughter felt like they were not challenge me at all because they do not see me as being able to go upstairs. >> i think because gymnastics is so specific it is a dangerous sport so you need the strength and conditioning and a lot of kids do not wanted. >> it is a part of us that is like this is what it is. >> it is a huge commitment. >> i have asked this question for everybody. i am with the experts. simone biles. >> when it first happened i was

annoyed but i had to take a step back. >> when you think about the physics of it and you think, i am throwing my body and flipping him trying to stick it. >> it is a crazy sport. >> women's gymnastics has always been a paradox. most of the women are under 18 and the true test of how good you are is not how much you are treated like a human but rather how much you are treated like a machine. that is why it was a huge deal when the greatest of all time herself said no. i am a human. remember kerry as a hero for this vault but will we do not remember is that she injured her ankle so badly on a previous fault that she let her coach know she was not sure she could go again. her coach, the legendary bella proclaimed you can do it and while it was framed as good

coaching at the time there have been many reports of her being physically and verbally abusive to the young women and girls they coached. >> the screaming and yelling, the humiliation and body shaming regularly. >> in response to allegations, he has since then said my gymnasts are the best prepared in the world and they are victorious, that is all that counts and my response is, is it? >> there has been a narrative that winning is more important than the person's physical and psychic well-being. >> it is tough love. it is a tough sport and there needs to be some discipline but at the same time we know when to's take a step back. >> it is difficult to bring up but i feel like the larry nasser thing has to have affected all gymnasts. >> even in the world of me as well, the larry case is shocking and it puts this sports reputation of testing

winning over the safety and well-being of gymnasts on a different level. in 2016 nasser a former usa gymnastics team doctor was arrested and charged with sexual assault of many of the young women and girls that were entrusted to his care. >> authorities are still looking for answers about how he was able to abuse hundreds of girls and women even though several victims reported his crimes to police. >> over his 18 year career, with a 300 young women and girls accused him of sexual assault and despite him operating at the training camp for decades bella says they knew nothing about his abuse. no matter how much time he spends in prison or how much money he is forced to give to survivors, they will always have to live with the impact of what he did. >> as the lone competitor in the recent tokyo games who was

a survivor of this horror, i can ensure your the impacts of this man's abuse are not ever over or forgotten. >> forget sports heroes, these are real heroes. >> little girls do not stay little forever. they grow into strong women that return to destroy your world. >> to be clear when my kids like i am not interested in gymnastics it was the same time the larry nasser thing broke. i do not know if this sport can take care of you. >> there are so many courses we are required to take now because of that. about sexual abuse and tough coaching. >> it talks about boundaries. you should not be texting your athletes or you cannot be alone in the gym with one kid. >> it shook the entire world. >> it shine a light on everything he needed to. >> even if you root out all of the larry's and take steps to protect the gymnasts. the truth is this sport still

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>> there are a lot of people with statues that do not deserve statues. >> but this is boston. >> russell does have a statue that he should have 2. one for winning the championships and another for being mentally tough enough to do with boston's races racism while he did it. >> because it runs deeply and it is baked into the cake of boston sports. >> russell, brilliantly spearheading the celtics. >> russell is the single greatest winning player of the history of all of america's divisional team sports. he was never known for scoring or flashy play, he was the ultimate team player and he was a team player off the court as well because even though he had his own struggles with boston's races and he was outspoken about the rights of black people and mentored other black athletes. this is back when it did not help your brand. we never talk enough of about how living with racism affects your mental health and

conversely we think being a professional athlete means you have no problems but if you are a black athlete or a athlete of color you have to do with all of the usual pressures of your sport and you have to do with racism. plenty of people telling you you have no right to talk about it. >> somebody once said shut up and dribble. >> russell is one of the main routes of a trait that black athlete protest grows off of, he is the champion of that as well and today's players walk in his footsteps. >> i am sure you know this. boston is not known for being the easiest town to play in, some with it the greatest player of all time is bill russell and he said it was hard to play in the city because of the racism. what is it like to come into that. >> you have seen the strides that have been made. you still have the same similar situations. more social media now than it was in the past. there is definitely that impact anxiety wise and emotionally when you read the things that

have been said. >> you notice it. it is hard not to notice. >> grant is a power forward for the celtics and at 22 he was elected one of the youngest vice presidents of the basketball players association. he is also a former chess champion with a mom that works at nasa. that is too much. >> it is not that people should not talk trash, it is when it goes off the court and it is about your family or what you are doing. there are times when people will question people's intelligence and character. and not know the person. >> especially when it is a white media outlet doing it to a black person. it used to be if you were a athlete, the outliers were the ones that paid attention to the events of the world like mohammed ali or bill russell. that guy was the political guy and now it is to the point where if you're not paying

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whether they are mentally prepared for it or not, they know they have to deal with the consequences. >> often times i feel like people are pressed forward no matter their health and well- being and that is because we feel people is a entertainer or athlete. when we understand the people are still people at the end of the day >> players are open to this in the locker room, you can talk about your twisted ankle but can you talk about your mental state? >> that is something i try to encourage and adopt to, if we prove we can do this than others will hopefully follow suit. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and i detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers, even in early stages. early stages? yep, it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider if cologuard is right for you. consider it done. welcome to your world.

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understand it is stressful to be a elite athlete but some athletes have a level of stress that other athletes cannot even imagine. >> for paralympics you have to classify with doctors. >> i heard about that a little bit. was it as bad as it sounds? >> it is a lot of extra stress. you are worried that people have to poke and prod at you and they make it feel like you don't belong there. >> we are supposed to be at our peak level of fitness. peak level of confidence and then a couple of days before you go they say show us everything you cannot do and i have been really trying to put that off. in sports your mindset is important. >> it is interesting situation because the olympics are once every four years so you get all of this attention on you but then nobody cares about you and the three year hiatus. nobody knows what you had to

put in to get to where you are but there is a weird more is better mentality which i think is you get more mature he relies it is not the case. >> as if the external pressure was not enough. every elite athlete has the internal pressure of knowing they cannot be elite forever, eventually you are not on top anymore. no offense simone. for some pro athletes, that fall from the top is not soft and by piles of cash. >> we get a monthly stipend of maybe 600. i cannot even pay rent with that here. >> unless you live in the 1980s. >> i had a full-time job the entire time i was training. >> not to put money on olympic glory but come on. >> some people think it is gauche to talk about money in the olympics but how do we expect athletes to make sense of giving the country everything and then ending up

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streets new england, which offers programs to underserved youth in boston. like so many women in sports, she has stomach years of welcoming messaging from her peers. >> to some people a guy rustling a girl is a lose lose, if you beat the girl you beat up a girl and if you lose to a girl you lost to a girl. >> when you wrestle a boy, does it feel unfair? >> i feel like there are loopholes, personally i like going brute strength to brute strength for the excitement. knowing that i could beat them at their own game. >> i would love to see a point at the sport where there are enough females on the mat that we have our own teams and

opportunities. >> she is not just pushing for a more inclusive sport, she is pushing to change the way all of athletes feel about the purpose as wrestlers, a lesson she learned back in college as a olympic hopeful. >> is summoning, is one of the top three potential to make a olympic team and i was like this is it, this is what will happen so i slept, dreamt and briefed olympic wrestling and then i got injured. that was it. the first time i truly felt a heartache or loss and did not handle it well. i was not ready mentally. you put it on your value as a athlete. when that goes away you feel like you have lost your value as well and then i sent my value again. if i had realized that i was

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this is cnn, the world's news network. i am a full grown adult, and i know that my manhood has nothing to do with my athletic ability. and, yet -- because i grew up with more books than balls,

wait, that doesn't sound right. anyway. i get afraid that my lack of athleticism will make me look like less of a man. one of my greatest fears as i'm walking past the park, a baseball will toward me, and some guys on the other side yell, toss it back. then, i pray to be struck by lightning. >> where are we starting from? one thing i wanted to do in boston was learn how to throw a baseball. i got two of the manliest men i know, friends of mine, and producers on the show. if this goes too badly, i can fire them. >> don't roast me. >> it's getting better. >> all of that, together. i didn't mean to throw that to someone wearing a baseball glove. my fault.

>> obviously, throwing a baseball well does not mean you are a man, right? in sports, we often connect masculinity to physical and mental toughness. vulnerability is weakness. >> this hurts me. >> when randy moss got choked up talking about the racist emails of then las vegas raiders coach, many people took this as an opportunity to call randy moss "soft." he is one of the greatest nfl players of all time. if he can't cry, who can? we often look at athletes as machines, and we do not look at them as humans. we have a saying, when people cry, cry up. hold your head high when you cry. >> that's deep. >> darius slayton is a senior youth specialist at the becoming a man program, a.k.a., bam boston.

the program focuses on creating a space for young, predominantly black and brown men to learn life skills and practice vulnerability. each and every day, that practice begins with a single check in. >> we will do a check in. what is one lesson you have learned from your sport that you can apply to your everyday life? mr. powell. >> basketball being my sport, one thing i learned was perseverance. setting a goal and seeing it through. >> good morning. football. something that i can apply to my daily life is that anything can be a motivation. my grades are high but i think i can get them higher. that's my motivation. i see jaden working out, that's my motivation. >> jaden, did you hear your brother check in? did you know that was happening? >> i didn't. it feels good, i never thought someone would be inspired by

me. >> let me be clear. supporting mental and emotional health does not only look like one-on-one therapy. programs like make thoughtful care and communication a normalized practice in larger communities. that's a big part of the work. >> my sport is standup comedy. but, i think the thing i learned, even if i don't do standup comedy is that my sport is not to compare myself to other people. if i compare myself to other people, i am always comparing my inside to their outside. with that, i'm in. >> thank you. as a group, do you think you can juggle six balls? every person in the circle must catch the ball once without dropping it. if the ball is dropped, the activity starts over. all right. from here on out, three more attempts.

>> i could use a lightning strike about now. >> this is one of my worst nightmares. every nightmare i have ever had about sports. i made an adjustment. >> don't get down on yourself. >> i put it down! >> the ball cannot touch the floor. that is two fails. one more chance. >> oh my god. >> it's not a problem! >> everyone is doing a good job. >> all right, group mission failed. take your seats. bring them back in. >> did you have any programs like this growing up? programs that could help you better yourself? >> my mom. you know, i grew up in a

generation where if you talked about your feelings in front of other men -- >> you were a little girl. >> there you go. we still live in a society where men, overall, are not encouraged to express feelings. black men specifically, we only allowed to operate in two areas. extreme joy or anger. >> there is no room for us to show other emotions and that can be detrimental and toxic. >> that's one of the reasons i got involved. i did not have somebody like this for me. i desperately needed someone that i could check in with. without feeling judged, without feeling like they have to put on that act, where we can just be us. >> i appreciate that you let us fail the mission. you could've said one more time. but no, the missions over. >> failure happens. what's next? that's an important lesson that we need to learn. >> i failed out of college three times. but i got my degree. the lesson i taken from that is that that has become part of me.

i'm able to impart that on y'all and see the way that y'all are achieving, the way y'all are kicking life and loving life and being able to freely express yourselves. when i think of goals and accomplishments, y'all are my accomplishments. it's about your journey. >> i'm about to cry, bro. >> cried up. >> so come on everybody, let's cry it up. it isn't just athletes that need help processing emotion. >> if you are not vulnerable, you are not a man. i'm sorry. >> i got red, i'm standing here. okay, i'll be more vulnerable. >> it should not be complicated. athletes are human. no matter how much better they are at the physical part of being human, they are just people. even tom brady. if we cannot care about physical fitness and their mental well-being, then maybe we do not deserve them at

all. >> we will see that. >> man, i hope i did not anger tom brady by calling him human. yeah, yeah. all right. >> may be a bridge too far. >> next lesson, i got it, next lesson. welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. just ahead, record-breaking temperatures are sweeping across three continents, bringing with them dangerous wildfires. russia admits it was behind an attack in odessa, in ukraine , but says the deal to allow ukrainian grain exports will go on as planned. the pope arrives