There’s a video making rounds in the lead-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics that is a bit of a weird watch. The NBC short features three-time Olympian Elizabeth Beisel squeezing into a competitive swimsuit. “Squeezing” doesn’t really do it justice. She has to stretch, fold, and contort herself into the suit in a clearly trying process — at one point, this gold medalist seems out of breath — that takes 30 minutes by her estimate.
