It looks like I am going to go down to Florida to interview Mr. Lochte for a Men's Health article in early April. Not absolutely sure what the gist of this is supposed to be about yet, but I suspect the theme will be whether he can set a new standard for total number of medals won, or come close, and if so how.
If you could ask Ryan some questions in person, what would you ask him?
Plus if anybody has ideas about why he is so extraordinarily good, I'd really be grateful to hear them. I read that both his parents were swimming coaches, and he got his perfect strokes from his mom and his training and stamina from his father. (As far as perfect form goes, I am sure this has changed quite a bit from his youth--was it his mother who redefined this, or some other coach?)
When you think of human accomplishment on the bell shaped curve, he is so far out there on the right hand margins--well, any world record holder is, I suppose, but he and Phelps are just incredible specimens, the Secretariats of swimming.
They are beyond even the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent. How do people get to this rarefied position?
It looks like I am going to go down to Florida to interview Mr. Lochte for a Men's Health article in early April. Not absolutely sure what the gist of this is supposed to be about yet, but I suspect the theme will be whether he can set a new standard for total number of medals won, or come close, and if so how.
If you could ask Ryan some questions in person, what would you ask him?
Plus if anybody has ideas about why he is so extraordinarily good, I'd really be grateful to hear them. I read that both his parents were swimming coaches, and he got his perfect strokes from his mom and his training and stamina from his father. (As far as perfect form goes, I am sure this has changed quite a bit from his youth--was it his mother who redefined this, or some other coach?)
When you think of human accomplishment on the bell shaped curve, he is so far out there on the right hand margins--well, any world record holder is, I suppose, but he and Phelps are just incredible specimens, the Secretariats of swimming.
They are beyond even the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent. How do people get to this rarefied position?
