The Revenant: Harini Logan Rallies for Spelling Bee Title

The Revenant: Harini Logan Rallies for Spelling Bee Title
Harini Logan, 14, from San Antonio, Texas, celebrates winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee with Scripps CEO Adam Sampson right and family stage, in Oxon Hill, Md., on June 2, 2022. Alex Brandon/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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OXON HILL, Md.—Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in the English language, she had never taken home a national title.

In the biggest bee of them all, she endured a new series of setbacks, but somehow, at the end, she was still there.