In the moments after she crossed the finish line of the Olympic heptathlon's 800 metres, Brianne Theisen-Eaton was completely spent, any bit of mental energy used up over the final gruelling steps of one of track and field's toughest events.
She was thankful to be done. She never wanted to do another heptathlon again.
And in the weeks that followed her bronze-medal performance in Rio, those feelings never waned.
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