This chapter uses Foucauldian discourse analysis to investigate media representations of three North American professional athletes who have experienced Long COVID: Women’s National Basketball Association player AD Durr and National Hockey League players Jonathan Toews and Brandon Sutter. The analysis identifies three themes across these depictions: athletes’ symptoms and suffering; militarised metaphors of ‘battling’ illness; and uncertainty in returning to the (sport) workplace. These themes inform modes of public pedagogy around Long COVID that obscure pandemic power relations and inequities. Athlete Long COVID narratives seemingly counter dominant conceptions of pandemic risk focused on older people, disabled people or those with pre-existing medical conditions. Yet these representations reproduce individualistic sport storylines of hard work and determination that disregard pandemic discourses of ableism, health and workplace disparities, and infrastructures of harm within and beyond sport.