Ildrennkually drops by two levels. It impacts behavior leading to things like developmental delays and has lifealtering consequences. ticking chris downey had constructed the life hed always wanted, an architect with a good job. That whole exterior. Happily married and coaching his tenyearold sons Little League. But then something awful happened. He went blind, and that threatened to end his career. Is that different . Oh, yeah. Or did it . Im a kid again. Im relearning so much of architecture. It wasnt about what im missing in architecture, it was about what i had been missing in architecture. ticking you are not laid back when you play tennis. translated no. I think im a very intense person with a lot of energy. I live life and sports at maximum intensity. Tonight we will try to explain how rafa nadal, the most intense tennis player of his generation, can come from a place like this the sleepy, sunny island of mallorca. ticking sunny island of mallorca. ticking im lesley stahl. 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Alfonsi you may remember the pictures from the water crisis six years ago in flint, michigan hundreds of angry residents holding up bottles of rustcolored water, and demanding answers. Months of protests were waved off by officials who denied anything was wrong. The turning point came when a local pediatrician found conclusive proof that the children of flint were being exposed to high levels of lead in their water, and prompted the state to declare an emergency. Now, that same doctor is working to solve a mystery that still worries parents in flint what lasting damage did the water do to their kids . As we first reported in march, her initial findings were worse than she feared. But we begin with the legacy of flints water crisis. Once a week, hundreds of cars line up for bottled water at the Greater Holy Temple Church of god in flint. Sandra jones is in command. She is a pastors wife, with the voice of a fourstar general. Sandra jones take his number. Well find a way to deliver to him. Alfonsi jones keeps the cars moving, and the water coming. Each family is allowed four cases of water. On this day, they gave away 36,000 bottles. It just strikes me. Its been five years and youre still doing this. Jones five years. And and the thing about it is its not lightening up. I could see it if it was lightening up. But it isnt. Alfonsi it is not. The state stopped giving away bottled water two years ago, because it said the water is safe. Sandra jones relies on donations of water. Whats it been like . Larry marshall its been kind of hard. Alfonsi Larry Marshall was second in line. The widowed father of four got here at 5 00 a. M. Hes been waiting five hours for water. Marshall water should be a basic necessity that we shouldnt have to wait or stand in this is not a third world country. But were living like one. Alfonsi marshall, like many in flint, still refuses to drink tap water. And if they come to you, the city or the state, and they say, your Drinking Waters safe, are you going to believe them . Marshall no. They lie so much and we know they lie, and i when they say something, its like talking to the wind, you know. I dont believe nothing they say. None of the politicians. None of them. Alfonsi flint, once a prosperous hub of the American Auto industry, was nearly bankrupt back in 2014. Officials hoped to save money by switching the city water source from the great lakes to the flint river. Almost immediately, residents began noticing something wasnt right. The water was rustcolored, and many people had rashes. But michigans department of Environmental Quality and the city insisted the water in flint is safe. Later, a state investigation found those officials hid the fact that the river water was not treated with chemicals that would prevent the pipes from corroding. So for months, the water ate away at flints old pipes, releasing lead into residents tap water. Dr. Mona hannaatisha they were poisoned. I mean, they were poisoned by this water. They were all exposed to toxic water. Alfonsi dr. Mona hanna atisha is a pediatrician in flint who her patients call dr. Mona. How strong alfonsi dr. Mona is a bit of a superhero herself here, because she was the first to link the water to high levels of lead in the children of flint. Dr. Mona so within a few months of of being on this water, general motors, which was born in flint, and still has plants in flint, noticed that this water, our Drinking Water, was corroding their engine parts. Lets pause. Like, the drinking laughs water was corroding engine parts. So they were allowed to go back to great lakes water. Alfonsi didnt anybody at that point say, if its corroding an engine, maybe this shouldnt be going into our bodies, into our kids . Dr. Mona i mean, that should have been like fire alarm bells. Like, red flags. Alfonsi so what did it take before your it your eyes opened about this . Dr mona yeah. It it it was the word lead. Alfonsi because the word lead, when youre a physician or a pediatrician, signals what in your brain . Dr. Mona there is no safe level of lead. Were never supposed to expose a population or a child to lead. Because we cant do much about it. It is an irreversible neurotoxin. It attacks the core of what it means to be you, and impacts cognition how children think. Actually drops i. Q. Levels. It impacts behavior, leading to things like developmental delays, and it has these life altering consequences. Alfonsi in 2015, dr. Mona and a colleague started digging through blood test records of 1,700 flint children, including the kids she sees at the hurley childrens clinic. Ready . Alfonsi the nonprofit clinic serves most of flints kids. The city is 53 black, and has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. Dr. Mona so we looked at the childrens blood lead levels before the water switch. And we compared them to the childrens blood lead levels after the water switch. And in the areas where the water lead levels were the highest, in those parts of the city, we saw the greatest increase in childrens lead levels. Alfonsi armed with the first medical evidence that kids were being exposed to lead from the water, dr. Mona did something controversial she quickly held a press conference to share the blood test study before other doctors reviewed her work. Dr. Mona so, it was a bit of an academic nono. Kind of a form of academic disobedience. But i l alfonsi and you knew that . Dr. Mona i i knew that. But, like, but there was no choice there was no way i was going to wait to have this, this research vetted. Alfonsi two weeks later, michigan Governor Rick Snyder ordered the water switched back to the great lakes, and declared a state of emergency. Governor rick snyder i say tonight, as i have before, i am sorry and i will fix it. Alfonsi but the damage was done. Dr. Mona estimates 14,000 kids in flint under the age of six may have been exposed to lead in their water. Dr. Mona i never should have had to do the research that literally used the blood of our children as detectors of environmental contamination. Alfonsi three years after the crisis began, the percentage of third graders in flint who passed michigans standardized literacy test dropped from 41 to 10 . Kenyatta dotson im very concerned about my children. And not only my children, but im concerned about the children of flint. Alfonsi Kenyatta Dotson is still fearful of the water, even though the state is spending more than 300 million to fix the water system. The city promised to replace all 12,000 supply lines that may have been contaminated with lead by last fall. Now, they say the work wont be done until summer. Dotson says she and her daughters will continue to use bottled water for cooking and brushing their teeth. Dotson i need time to come back to a place where i feel whole again. Alfonsi you dont feel whole right now . Dotson oh, no. Alfonsi would this have happened in a rich, white suburb . Dotson maybe it wouldve happened in in a rich, white suburb. Would it have continued for as long as it has . I dont believe so. Alfonsi we found many parents in flint still bathe their Young Children with bottled water first warmed on the stove, then brought to the tub. Dr. Mona when im in clinic, almost every day, a mom asks me, is my kid going to be okay . So thats a numberone kind of anxiety and and concern right now. Alfonsi how do you answer that . Dr. Mona oh, i i sit down. I sometimes hold their hand. And i reassure my patients and their parents just as i would before the crisis to keep doing everything that youre supposed to be doing to promote your childrens development. The flint registry is now live. Alfonsi in january of 2019, she launched the flint registry, the First Comprehensive look at the thousands of kids exposed to lead in flint. The goal of the federal and statefunded program is to track the health of those kids and get them the help they need. So today is the final day of his assessment. Alfonsi the registry refers hundreds of kids to specialists who conduct eight hours of neuropsychological assessments of their behavior and development. Dr. Mona shared her preliminary findings with 60 minutes. Before the crisis, about 15 of the kids in flint required special education services. But of the 174 children who went through the extensive neuro exams, specialists determined that 80 will require help for a language, learning or intellectual disorder. What are you going to do . Dr. Mona so, theres not much we can do. So, theres no magic pill. Theres no antidote. Theres no cure. We cant take away this exposure. But incredible science has taught us that theres a lot we can do to promote the health and development of children, and thats exactly what were doing. Alfonsi through the registry, already 2,000 flint children who were exposed to lead have been connected to services such as speech and occupational therapy, which some may need for the rest of their lives. Dr. Mona but we also realized that our research, our science, this data and facts was also an underestimation of the exposure. Alfonsi why underestimated . Dr. Mona because we were looking at blood lead data done as part of these surveillance programs, which are done at the ages of one and two. Lead in water impacts a younger age group. It impacts the unborn. Alfonsi to determine that impact, dr. Mona turned to a novel technique developed by dr. Manish arora at new yorks mount sinai hospital. He examines baby teeth. Baby teeth begin to grow in utero. Dr. Manish arora and just like growth rings in trees, every day a tooth forms a ring. And anything that were exposed to in our diet, what we eat, what we breathe, what we drink gets trapped in those growth rings. Alfonsi a laser cuts through the tooth to analyze whether lead is embedded in the growth rings of teeth. Dr. Mona has sent teeth from 49 flint kids to be analyzed. This was a scan on the tooth of a child who was six months old when the water source switched in flint. Dr. Arora as we hit that sixmonth mark where the alfonsi oh, my gosh dr. Arora water, the water supply was changed. You can see how alfonsi look at that. Dr. Arora you can see how the lead levels go up, and then they just keep keep going up as more and more leads entering the body. Alfonsi it shoots straight up. Dr. Arora exactly. Alfonsi wow. For the first time, researchers can pinpoint to the day even before birth when a child was exposed to lead from the water, and at what levels. Those early years are a critical time for brain development. Dr. Mona youre taking giant steps alfonsi as we were following dr. Monas work in flint, another American City was forced to hand out cases of water. Testing on the Drinking Water leve four times higher than lead the federal limit. In some places, higher than flint. Newark officials were warned about its water more than two years ago. Dr. Mona newark, new jersey is like living flint all over again. If we cannot guarantee that all kids g have access to safe Drinking Water, not just privileged kids, but all kids have access to safe Drinking Water. Thats just one issue. Like, who are we . Alfonsi this is not isolated to flint dr. Mona this is this is an everywhere story. This is an america story. Alfonsi we made another visit to flint to check in with sandra jones. Jones lets move them out. Yall are moving too slow. She was still in command despite temperatures in the single digits. 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If you have hepatitis b, do not stop taking biktarvy withoud adache. If youre living with hiv, keep loving who you are. And ask your doctor if biktarvy is right for you. Stahl at age 45, chris downey had pretty much constructed the life hed always wanted. An architect with a good job at a small housing firm outside san francisco, he was happily married, with a tenyearold son. He was an assistant Little League coach and avid cyclist. And then doctors discovered a tumor in his brain. He had surgery, and the tumor was safely gone. But downey was left completely blind. As we first reported in 2019, what he has done in the decade since losing his sight as a person, and as an architect can only be described as a different kind of vision. Several mornings a week, as the sun rises over the oakland estuary in california, an amateur rowing team works the water. Its hard to tell which one of them is blind. And chris downey thinks thats just fine. Chris downey its really exciting to be in a sport where nobody looks in the direction theyre going. You face this way in the boat, and youre going that way. So, okay, evensteven. We were just talking about that whole exterior. Stahl its not exactly evensteven in this design meeting, where downey is collaborating with sighted architects on a new hospital building. Chris downey under the canopy, where you could have down lights. Stahl . But he hasnt let that stop him. Here you are, in a profession that basically requires you to read read designs and draw designs. You mustve thought in your head, that is insurmountable . Chris downey no. I never thought stahl you never thought you never thought the word insurmountable chris downey lots of people, friends that were architects and anybody else would say, oh my god, its the worst thing imaginable, to be an architect and to lose your sight. I cant imagine anything worse. But i quickly came to realize that the Creative Process is an intellectual process. Its how you think. So i just needed new tools. Stahl new tools . Downey found a printer that could emboss architectural drawings so that he could read and understand through touch. E normal prints, normal drawings, on the computer. But then they just come out in tactile form. Stahl so it is like braille, isnt it . Chris downey right. Stahl and he came up with a way to sketch his ideas onto the plans using a simple childrens toy malleable wax sticks that he shapes to show his modifications to others. And he says something surprising started to happen. He could no longer see buildings and spaces, but he began hearing them. Chris downey the sounds, the textures. And the sound changes because theres a canopy overhead. Stahl you can sense that were under a canopy . Chris downey yes. Its all a matter of how the sound works, from the tip of the cane. I was fascinated walking through buildings that i knew sighted, but i was experiencing them in a different way. I was hearing the architecture, i was feeling the space. Stahl it sounds as if you began almost enjoying, in a way, being the blind architect. Chris downey it was sort of this this excitement of, im a kid again. Im im relearning so much of architecture. It wasnt about what im missing s about what i had beenhat it missing in architecture. Is that sufficiently different . Chris downey oh, yeah. laughter stahl chris downeys upbeat attitude doesnt mean that he didnt go through one of the most frightening experiences imaginable, and struggle. He and his wife rosa were living in this same home with their son renzo, then ten, when downey first noticed a problem while playing catch with renzo. The ball kept coming in and out of sight. The cause turned out to be a tumor near his optic nerve. Surgery to remove it lasted 9. 5 hours. He says his surgeon had told him there was a slight risk of total sight loss, but that hed never had it happen. Rosa downey when he first came out of surgery, he was able to see. Stahl but then things started to go wrong. The next day, half his field of vision disappeared. And then . Chris downey the next time i woke up, it was. All gone. It was just black. Stahl complete and total darkness . No light, you cant see anything . Chris downey no light. Its dark. Its all dark. Stahl after days of frantic testing, a surgeon told him it was permanent, irreversible, and sent in a social worker. Chris downey she says, oh, and i see from your chart youre youre an architect, so we can talk about career alternatives. Stahl career alternatives, right away . Chris downey i hadnt been told i was officially blind for 24 hours, and stahl and shes saying you cant be an architect anymore. Chris downey yeah, and she was saying we could talk about career alternatives. I felt like these walls were being built up around me, just like, yeah, youre getting boxed in. Stahl alone that night in his room, downey did some serious thinking. About his son, and about his own father, who had died from complications after surgery when downey was seven years old. Chris downey i could quickly appreciate the wonder, the just the joy of, im still here. Stahl it was actually joy . Chris downey yeah, it was like, im still here with my family. My son still has his dad. Stahl you know your eyes are tearing up. You know that. Chris downey yeah, sorry. I always have a hard time talking through that. Stahl he knew that how he handled this would send a strong message to renzo. Chris downey i had been talking with him about the need to really apply himself. At the age of ten, its that point where if you want something you really have to work at it. And here i am, facing this great challenge. Stahl so, motivated to set an example, he headed back to work only one month later. Bryan bashin this was the most healthy thing about chris. Stahl bryan bashin is executive director of the nonprofit lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired in san francisco, and is blind himself. Bashin he waited a few days, until the stitches were out of his skull. And 30 days after brain surgery, he was back in the office thinking, okay, theres got to be a way to figure this out. And im going to figure it out. Stahl bashings organization, the lighthouse, helps people new to vision loss learn how to figure things out. Bashin when someone becomes blind, the odds are 99 theyve never met another blind person. Stahl is that right . Bashin yeah, that really is true. Blind people need those role models, how to be blind, how to hold down a job, how to live an independent life. Stahl specifically, how to work in the kitchen safely. How to navigate public transportation. How to use Screen Reading Software to listen to emails as quickly as the rest of us read them. Did you understand that . Chris downey yes. Stahl no and most critically, how to get around in the world alone. Downey learned that at the lighthouse. When you first crossed a big street like this on your own, was it terrifying . Chris downey absolutely terrifying. Stahl i can imagine. laughs i can totally imagine. Chris downey i remember that day, stepping off the curb, and it was like, you would have thought i was stepping into raging waters. Take a deep breath and go for it. You got to push through it. Stahl within a few months, he was travelling the streets on his own and getting back to normalcy with his son. Chris downey the first fathers day came up. Rosa was like, so, what do you want to do . Do you want to go on a picnic, go on a nice lunch . I want to play baseball. laughter with renzo. Renzo was like he pops up. I could just i could feel him, like, jump to the edge of his chair. Baseball, you want to play baseball . laughter renzo downey so dad would throw to me, and id play like i was playing first base. Stahl how could he throw the ball to you . Renzo downey id just call out, im over here. And hed point, and id say, yeah, thats right. And then hed throw it at me. Chris downey thats something i really loved about our relationship. He quickly was looking for possibilities. He wasnt saying, you cant do that. He was like, well, why not . Stahl downey seems to have a knack for finding windows when doors slam shut. Just nine months after going blind, the recession hit, and he lost his job. But, he got word that a nearby firm was designing a Rehabilitation Center for veterans with sight loss. They were eager to meet a blind architect. What are the chances . You had to believe that gods hand came down chris downey it took my disability and turned it upside down. All of a sudden, it defined unique, unusual value that virtually nobody else had to offer. Stahl nobody. Chris downey yeah. Stahl starting with that job, downey developed a specialty, making spaces accessible to the blind. He helped design a new eye center at Duke University hospital, consulted on a job for microsoft, and signed on to help the visually impaired find their way in san franciscos new, and much delayed, fourblocklong transbay transit center, which we visited during construction. Chris downey if youre blind, you dont drive. Right . They dont like it when we drive. So, you know, were committed transit users. So the question was, how on earth do you navigate this size of facility, if youre blind . Stahl his solution grooves set into the concrete running the entire length of the platform. Chris downey i would just follow this, following those grooves. Stahl . With a subtle change from smooth to textured concrete, to signal where to turn to get to the escalators. Chris downey would you like to give it a try . Stahl okay. I know to go straight because of this line. And i feel scraping oh, my. Oh, my. So its pretty obvious. Chris downey i can hear the difference from here. Stahl its something sighted people may never notice and thats precisely the point. Downey believes in whats called universal design that accommodates people with disabilities, but is just as appealing to people without them. Its the approach he used for his biggest project yet, consulting on the total novation of a new, threery office sce for his old training ground, the lighthouse for the blind. Bashin coming into blindness need not be some dreary social service experience, but rather, more like coming into an apple store thinking that there might be something fun around the corner. Stahl one of downeys ideas was to break through and link the three floors with an internal staircase that sighted people can see, and the blind can hear. Bashin in blindness, its so wonderful to be on the 9th floor and hear a burst of laughter up on the 11th floor, or to hear somebody playing the piano on the 10th floor. Stahl for the hallways, downey chose polished concrete, because of the acoustics. Bashin i can hear the special tap of somebodys cane, or the click of a guide dogs toenails. Stahl the click of a guide dogs toenails . Bashin yeah, yeah. Stahl well, is that good or bad . Bashin thats great. Its like youre seeing somebody coming down the hall. I know the sound of individual people who work here by the way they use their cane, or the kind of walk they have. Stahl you can really distinguish between people by how they tap their cane . Bashin absolutely. Stahl if you hadnt had chris working on this building, a blind architect bashin it wouldnt have been as rich or so subtle, for sure. Stahl spring 2018 marked the tenyear anniversary of downey losing his sight. So what did he do . He threw a party, a fundraiser for the lighthouse, where hes been student, architect, and now, president of the board. Chris downey maybe a slightly bizarre thing, celebrating my tenyear blind birthday. But when youre 55 and you have a chance to be ten again, you take it. Stahl i get the feeling that you actually think youre a better architect today. Chris downey im absolutely convinced im a better architecg stahl if you could see tomorrow, would you still want to be able to feel the design . Chris downey if i were to get my sight back, it would be i dont know. I would be afraid that id id sort of lose what ive really been working on. I dont really think about having my sight restored. Theres be some logistical liberation to it. But, will it make my life btter . I dont think so. ticking welcome to the cbs sports hq presented by progressive insurance. Today at the Rocket Mortgage classic in detroit. Californian shot the low round of the day. A 65 to take the title. 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But nadal doesnt play tennis so much as he works it, blistering the ball with annihilating force, lacing it with somersaulting topspin, and imposing his will on the opponent. His relentless approach is strikingly effective and, as we first told you last january, strikingly at odds with the vibe on the Spanish Island where he was born, lives now, and vows never to leave. Nadal invited us to his hometown last december, during what passes for an offseasn nn five weeks most players use to rest up before the start of a new season. Most players, but not rafa nadal. We found him blasting away at practice every morning, deploying his lefty forehand and doublefisted backhand. Every bit as dialed in as he is during his matches. Such is his intensity, nadal requires two sparring partners. His main coach carlos moya, was once the worlds number one ranked player himself, and even he struggled. Rafa nadal es facil. Wertheim that was easy, nadal joked. Hola good to see you. Nadal good to see you. Wertheim full disclosure ive covered nadal for 15 years on the pro tennis tour, but this was our first extended oncamera interview. Hes fluent in english, but expresses himself more freely in spanish. You are not laid back when you play tennis. Nadal translated no. I think im a very intense person with a lot of energy. I live life and sports at this is how i feel it. Wertheim in 2019, the world felt it, perhaps the best six month stretch of nadals career, even by his dizzyingly high standards. In june, he won the french open of course he did. It was his 12th title on the red clay of paris, more than any player in history has won any major. In september in new york, he reeled off the shot of the year. Watch this. If i didnt see it with my own eyes cheers and applause wertheim not over the net, but around it and yes, this is legal. On his way to winning the u. S. Open for a fourth time. By the time he carried spain to a davis cup title, he was all ready number one in the world, his fifth turn closing out the season on top. As one observer put it, even at this stage of his career, nadal plays like hes broke. So, what hardcharging corner of spain, what hive of cutthroat ambition, would produce this kind of ruthless competitor . Actually. Its mallorca, the largest of spains balearic islands. A patchwork of turquoise coves, mountain ranges, rolling meadows, mallorca floats comfortably in the mediterranean. Think of it as something akin to a tennis ball spain volleyed in the direction of italy. The usual historical suspects carthaginians, romans and moors all left their mark here. How many generations of nadals have been on this island . Nadal translated many. Quite a few. Wertheim what is it like to you coming back to mallorca after spending time on the road . Nadal translated for me, coming back to mallorca means coming back to a normal life. And normal life makes me happy. Im not just rafa nadal, the tennis player. I become rafa nadal the human being again. Wertheim nadal is so attached to the place, that when floods ravaged mallorca in 2018, he put down his racket, grabbed a broom and became just another volunteer. The island raised him. So, too, did his parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts. Three generations of nadals living together quite literally on top of each other in this apartment block in the small town of manacor. His uncle, miguel aaangel, playd professional soccer and gave rafa his first glimpse of life under stadium lights. Nadal translated he always managed to have a peaceful, normal life close to his family. And for me, that was a very good example. Wertheim but it was another uncle toni nadal, then a local tennis instructor who recognized rafas talent. Toni nadal translated normally, when you throw the ball to most kids, they wait for the ball to come to them. But when he was three years old, he went straight for it. Wertheim there were no perks to being the instructors nephew quite the opposite. Toni singled him out, making him pick up balls and sweep the court after practice. How hard were you on him . Toni i was hard. Wertheim you were . Toni i wanted to prepare my nephew for the future. And i thought the future will be very difficult. Wertheim you say you were tough. Were you too tough . Toni sometimes. Wertheim still, it was out of the question that rafa would leave home and his uncles coaching to attend an academy. To this day, the nadal family operates as a tightly knit clan. They attend rafas big matches together; they toast his successes together. And they had cause to celebrate right from the start. Nadal was an instant phenom. In 2005, the week he turned 19, he won his first french open. His stubborn refusal to surrender and the spin he can generate with a flick of the wrist have always made him near unbeatable on clay courts. And yet, the signature moment of nadals entire career came on grass wimbledon. In 2007, nadal was close to dethroning the sports reigning king, Roger Federer, to win the tournament for the first time. But then, in keeping with an unfortunate theme of nadals career, his body betrayed him. A knee injury this time. Do you remember how low you were after that 2007 wimbledon final . Nadal translated i was sad and i was angry with myself. Because i wasnt able to endure mentally the pain, the suffering, and the tension. Wertheim nadal got another shot the following year, in whats been called the greatest match ever played. He pulled ahead early, but federer stormed back. During a rain delay, rafa conferred with his uncle. Toni translated im telling you, at that point, i thought that rafael was more likely to lose than to win. And then he looked up at me and said, relax, im not going to lose this match. Maybe federer will win, but im not going to lose. Theres a new man at the helm of mens tennis Rafael Nadal Nadal translated winning wimbledon was a dream. And beating roger, and the way i won. Its something i will never forget. Wertheim nadal didnt just comeederer, he confronted another persistent nemesis the doubt in his head. You once said to me, if i dont feel doubt, im going to be in trouble. Doubt is very important to my success. What do you mean by that . Nadal translated if you dont have doubt, it probably means that youre being arrogant. Wertheim most athletes might think the exact opposite, that doubts are bad. Youre saying doubts are almost a power, a strength. Nadal translated i think so, yes. I think its good for me, because then i feel alert. Because tennis is a sport where things ca change very quickly. Thats the great beauty of our sport. Wertheim a great beauty of nadal, for all his focus and aggression, hes also unfailingly sporting, which sometimes distinguishes him from colleagues. You havent broken too many rackets in competition have you . laughs how many . Do you know the total . Nadal translated yes, si. Wertheim what is it . Nadal translated zero. Wertheim zero. Never broken a racket . Nadal translated uhuh. Wertheim what is that about . Nadal translated my family, they wouldnt have allowed me to break a racket. For me, breaking a racket means im not in control of my emotions. Wertheim in full control of his emotions, at least until the last point. Hes amassed 19 majors, only one behind Roger Federers record of 20. But in this unrivaled sports rivalry, nadal leads the head tohead matchups 2416. You ever done a long interview and not been asked about Roger Federer . Does it bother you . Nadal translated no, id be delighted. Wertheim a rival, a colleague, a friend what is your relationship . Nadal translated i think its a little bit of everything. Weve had a very intense rivalry throughout our careers, but its been a very healthy rivalry. An elegant, respectful rivalry. We have also reached a stage in our lives where we are able to appreciate that its not just about winning. Wertheim nadal did admit to being jealous of federer in one respect. Do you ever envy the health of your rivals . Nadal translated yes. laughs sometimes i do. Its true that my rivals have faced fewer injuries than i have had to face. Wertheim one of the theories with your injuries is that you practice and play with so much intensity that it takes a physical price. Is that something you agree with . Nadal translated no, or i dont know. I was told that for many years, i was told that because of the way i play, i would never have a very long career. But, hey, im still here. Wertheim for this, the final set of nadals career, uncle toni has stepped aside and rafa has a new voice in his ear. Carlos moya is, naturally, a fellow mallorcan. What percent of his intensity did you have when you were a player . Carlos moya 10 . laughs wertheim 10 as intense as rafa nadal . Moya yeah. Wertheim and yet you come from the same place . Moya yeah, hes the different one, not me. Here in mallorca, we are like this. Wertheim hes the exception . Moya yeah, hes the exception, yeah. Wertheim nadal turned his sleepy hometown of manacor into a worldwide tennis destination. The Rafa Nadal Academy is a sprawling complex for enthusiasts and aspiring pros. When we asked nadal if he ever considered moving his operation, as if to emphasize the point, he switched to english to answer. Nadal honestly not. A lot of people does. Because of taxes. Wertheim not for you . Nadal for me it was difficult to take that decision because i have all of the people that i love here. And i will win much more money if i move to another place, but moving to another place if i am not happy could be very, very expensive. Wertheim last october, nadal married his longtime girlfriend, Maria Francisca perellooo. Yup, shes mallorcan, too. She helps run nadals Charitable Foundation and tends to avoid the public eye, though we found them together one night hosting a group of donors. How did you ask her to marry you . Nadal after 15 years, you dont need to talk much. Just, what do we have to do . laughs Maria Francisca yes, or not . Nadal well, here we are. Wertheim nadal took us to a plot of land he bought recently where he and his wife will eventually break ground on a new family home. He told us hed planned to have kids by now; then again he also thought hed be off the tour by now. Nadal this is the port of manacor. My parents living there. Wertheim oh, your parents live across the bay . Nadal yeah, other side. Yeah, its good, because i have the boat very close, too, very close. So that helps, because wertheim oh, you keep a boat here . Nadal yeah, yeah. So, in three minutes, i am in the boat. Wertheim three minutes youre in the boat, and youre out out in the mediterranean fishing nadal exactly. Wertheim only one problem with this spot. Nadal the problem here is the kids during the summer, they go there they jump. Because there is nobody in the house, they come up and they come back. They come from inside the property. Wertheim this is a hangout for mallorca because rafa is away playing tennis, so why dont we go out to his property and jump off his cliff. Nadal yeah, thats true. Wertheim have you jumped off that . Nadal yeah. Wertheim yeah . Nadal a couple of times. Wertheim maybe it was the effects of being back home. Maybe its because he is back on top. But we found rafael nadal ready to take the measure of his entire, surpassing career. Youve had some incredible victories and youve had some gutting losses. What is more intense . The joy of winning or the pain of losing . Nadal translated depends on the moment. 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