People have tried to make it clear to you, Ion, that you will not be recognized by USMS or SWIM magazine unless you swim a lot faster. They have also tried to point out, in a nutshell, that your attitude comes across as sour grapes.
I am going to postulate that you would like to be recognized for overcoming whatever it is you have overcome. SWIM magazine doesn't have the space to do it. And they certainly don't have the manpower (interviewers and photographers) to cover every story there is to tell, especially in regard to overcoming adversity.
So, here it is. I wish everyone would take the chance to tell their stories. Think of it as a SWIM web page for sharing of personal histories.
I know Tom Ellison has an amazing story that I wish he would put here. I know of many other swimmers who have overcome tremendous adversity. I hope this thread will become an inspiration to us all, and that we will all realize, as I have lately, that: looking at the past can be painful, so don't (as long as you don't repeat it!), who knows what the future holds, so quit worrying about it, and be happy in the present because it's the only thing you really have control over.
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Originally posted by Karen Duggan
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I am going to postulate that you would like to be recognized for overcoming whatever it is you have overcome. SWIM magazine doesn't have the space to do it.
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I think that you postulate that recognition by SWIM magazine is my highest ceiling.
No.
In Canada, in the 90s, coach Howard Firby (the equivalent to George Haines (U.S.) and Don Talbot (Aus.)) and Graham Smith (world record holder in the 80s) recognized my swimming.
The biggest adversity that I overcome is to force my destiny.
I won't dwell on it, it is my private life, but in a nutshell it involves being born somewhere, forcing the issue of being elsewhere, and in the process being mentored in learning by a Fields prize contender.
(Note: the Fields prize is the equivalent to the Nobel prize, in mathematics).
Originally posted by Karen Duggan
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I am going to postulate that you would like to be recognized for overcoming whatever it is you have overcome. SWIM magazine doesn't have the space to do it.
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I think that you postulate that recognition by SWIM magazine is my highest ceiling.
No.
In Canada, in the 90s, coach Howard Firby (the equivalent to George Haines (U.S.) and Don Talbot (Aus.)) and Graham Smith (world record holder in the 80s) recognized my swimming.
The biggest adversity that I overcome is to force my destiny.
I won't dwell on it, it is my private life, but in a nutshell it involves being born somewhere, forcing the issue of being elsewhere, and in the process being mentored in learning by a Fields prize contender.
(Note: the Fields prize is the equivalent to the Nobel prize, in mathematics).
