At Tokyo 2020, Team USA showed us you can be vulnerable and still win

American athletes topped the medal table but they also displayed traits that have often been forgotten in the turbulent five years since the Rio Games

In a manufactured controversy that seemed to be an echo of the aggressive demands for ostentatious displays of patriotism that swept the country after 9/11, the gymnast Gabby Douglas wasfor not placing her hand over her heart as the gold medal-winning gymnast and her four teammates stood for the national anthem.

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