Watching sports stars play through pain: Risks, rewards, and what our reporters thought

As Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal for the United States’ ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics, his mouth bloodied yet smiling, the American showed athletes’ ability to persist through pain and injury. “I looked on the ice and saw my teeth,” Hughes said, after taking a stick to the face in the third period during the gold-medal match against Canada. He shared the victory with his older brother and teammate Quinn Hughes, who said, “He (Jack) is an animal.” This has happened to Hughes b