And to hold those experiences up as part of your passing judgment on her greatness, or lack thereof, demonstrates both a wildly inflated self-regard and a complete lack of awareness of the pressures an athlete in her situation faces.

Ordinary people may do extraordinary things, and also may often fail to do extraordinary things. But the experience of competing at the level she does is a pressure of an entirely different sort (not necessarily more or less, but of a different sort entirely) than you or I will ever face. It’s incredible the heights of self-regard and absence of self awareness shown in you holding up your experiences as relevant in judging her greatness.