reporter: fans bac reporter: fans back home cheered as the men s basketball team overcame their poor start at these games. kevin durant was golden in the gold medal final with 29 points against france. each and every one of us put in that work every single day, from the coaches to the trainers to the players. we all came in with that goal of let s finish this thing off. reporter: as the competitions wind down, organizers are turning their attention to the closing ceremony, which will focus on hope and moving forward. javelin thrower athlete kara winger was chosen as a flag bearer for the closing ceremony by team u.s.a. yeah, i say put mental health first. reporter: american athletes of all kinds have spoken out here about their mental health, and the pressure of the games, since gymnastics biggest star, simone biles, withdrew from several events. bill mallon is an olympic historian. what do you think this olympics is going to be remembered for?
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In the past 12 years, surgeons have opened various parts of Tiger Woods 11 times. Ten of those 11 times were voluntary. He has terrible knees and a worse back. (And as a Class of ‘19 draftee into the Bad Back Franchise, I sympathize much more than I once might have.) This latest expedition into him, of course, as most of the world knows, was completely involuntary as a result of a devastating automobile accident. Bill Mallon is a former PGA golfer and an orthopedic surgeon at Duke Medical Center. (He also is an Olympic Historian of world renown). He put together a Twitter thread on Wednesday morning containing his informed speculation on the extent of Woods’s injuries based on the available public information. Much of the thread is unsettling, and it makes it clear that Woods is lucky to be alive. (The details about Woods’s possible “compartment syndrome” are especially unnerving.) The media attention is probably disproportionate, especially in the middle o