The Olympic expertise is not like some other.
It’s the end result of exhausting work, devoted coaching, psychological fortitude, and a lot extra. It’s also a second few athletes get to share in – representing your nation on the largest worldwide stage.
Missy Franklin of the USA prepares to begin the Ladies’s 200m Backstroke Remaining on Day 7 of the London 2012 Olympic Video games on the Aquatics Centre on August 3, 2012, in London, England. (Clive Rose/Getty Photos)
“It’s so exhausting to place into phrases,” Missy Franklin, a six-time Olympic medalist, instructed Fox Information Digital in a latest interview.
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“One of the vital epic moments as a swimmer is once you first make the nationwide workforce. And it is the primary time you get a cap with the American flag and your title on it. And that second as a swimmer, is like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ That is your ‘I’ve made it second’”
That second first got here for Franklin in 2012 when she bought the prospect to characterize Crew USA on the Summer time Video games in London. Franklin, who was simply 17 on the time, dominated the pool profitable 5 medals, together with 4 gold, and set a number of data within the course of.
“It doesn’t matter what the meet is, having your title alongside an American flag and realizing that you’re not simply representing your membership workforce, you are not simply representing your loved ones, you are not simply representing your self – you are representing your nation.”
Megan Romano and Missy Franklin, proper, of the USA have a good time after the Swimming Ladies’s 4x100m Freestyle on day 9 of the fifteenth FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi on July 28, 2013, in Barcelona, Spain. (Adam Fairly/Getty Photos)
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“After which to go and do it on a stage just like the Olympics, it means a lot to each single one in every of us, and I believe you see that,” Franklin continued.
“There’s simply a lot satisfaction, there’s a lot honor in being there. And I believe that is one of many explanation why we’re in a position to carry out so effectively is as a result of it is simply that additional little bit of motivation and satisfaction of like, ‘We’re right here.’ And never solely can we wish to make ourselves proud, our workforce proud, our coaches proud, we wish to make our nation proud.”
Franklin, now 29, has represented the U.S. at two Olympics. She gained her fifth gold medal within the girls’s 4×200 meter freestyle relay on the 2016 Summer time Olympics in Rio.
Swimmers Missy Franklin, left, and Megan Romano compete in Warmth 16 of the ladies’s 100M Backstroke on day two of the 2012 US Olympic Crew Trials on June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Nebraska. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages)
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However Franklin is heading again, solely this time she’ll be adjoining to that stage.
“I will be there doing a number of various things. As a former athlete, once you get to go to a different Olympics, you form of find yourself working with a lot of totally different teams when you’re over there,” Franklin stated.
“I’m simply so honored to be going there. It will be my first time going to an Olympics that I am not competing in. So, as a spectator, I am simply so excited to see what I can see and actually take within the expertise with out the strain of truly having to compete.”
The Paris Olympics are slated to start July 26, however the Olympic trials for USA swimming start this weekend at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
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