Olivia Apps, the team captain, started losing her hair when she was just seven years old. It took doctors nearly a year to diagnose her with alopecia.
Watching Olivia Apps bulldoze her way past opponents is a sight to behold. The 25-year-old rugby sevens player’s unrelenting speed and strength have set the tone for a momentous Olympic effort by the Canadian team, which captured the silver medal on Tuesday in the 2024 Paris Games. Apps, the team captain, also happens to have alopecia, an autoimmune disease that caused her to lose her hair when she was growing up in Ontario.
“I think that young women need to have more women in these kinds of spaces showing them that you don’t have to look a certain way to be beautiful or to be accepted or to be loved or find belonging,” Apps said. “I think a lot of women in these spaces, like myself, hopefully are breaking these barriers.” For Apps, the path to Paris included a terrifying encounter outside of the sport.
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