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The Underdog Blueprint: Teach The Six Beats Behind Every Olympic Story That Makes Us Cry

Every February, we watch Olympic coverage and feel things. The athlete who lost everything. The comeback no one expected. The unknown competitor from a small town.

We cry. We cheer. We text each other "ARE YOU WATCHING THIS?!"

But here's what most people don't realize: it's not the facts that move us. It's the structure.

Olympic storytellers use the same six beats—Origin, Setback, Mentor, Ticking Clock, Doubt, The Moment—to turn athletes into underdogs we can't stop rooting for.

The Underdog Blueprint teaches your students to see that structure, analyze it across four real 2026 Olympic athlete profiles, and then use it in their own writing.

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