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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Listening to a lot of olympic athletes' back stories, I am struck by the number of athletes who knew by age 9 that is what they were born to do. The high jumper from Louisiana was the best, jumping with a stick by age 5. .
How many non athlete's readers here knew what they wanted to do the rest of their life as a pursuit by the age of 9?
for me I was trying to figure out how to get ready for school on time by the age of 9, never mind see a sport on television or elsewhere and want to do that the rest of my life, or be in the olympics.
anyone have this type of work/sports epiphany?
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When I was a young teenager I was the state champion in backstroke and swam in the nationals (Junior Olympics), and came in third. Despite lots of pressure to continue swimming competitively, I gave it up because my passion was skiing. The first time I pointed my skies down a mogul field I was hooked. Never made it to the Olympics, but I did ski for a couple days with the USA Olympic team while they were training on Outer Limits and Devils Fiddle at Killington and held my own with them. Unfortunately, skiing all those bumps for many years trashed my knees. I should have stuck with swimming. Life goes full circle, now that I am old, and my knees are trashed, swimming is my passion and golf fills in the spare time.