Some comforting news to anyone who rolled into the office this morning running late with no makeup on: you share something in common with an Olympic gold medalist. After finishing first in a stunning 0.01-point upset over Anna Veith, the expected champion from Austria, Dutch skiier Ester Ledecka refused to take her goggles off during a postvictory press conference. Why?
Turns out, Ledecka, whose main expertise lies in snowboarding, not skiing, was not expecting to place at all. (To compare, she came in 44th place [1] during the World Cup of Alpine Skiing.) "I was not prepared to be at this ceremony," she told reporters in Pyeongchang [2], South Korea. "And I don't have any makeup [on]."
Of course, when you fly down a fricking mountain in under a minute-and-a-half [4], you don't need to be wearing makeup. Whether an athlete decides to cover up or go barefaced is their own prerogative — but at least you can remind yourself that you're in good company the next time you're foundation-less in the supermarket.
