We are near the midpoint of the Winter Olympics, one of the stranger and more controversial Games, given the advent of COVID and China's record on human rights. Even so, athletes are trying to compete under enormous pressure at the highest levels. Amna Nawaz gets the perspective of former speed skater and Olympic great Apolo Ohno, the most decorated Winter Olympian in U.S. history.

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