hello!! im new to these boards, and was wondering what y'all thought. Most of the time in the Olympics the ages of swimmers seem to be between the early teens to about early 30s. (pardon me if im wrong on this.) Is there some sort of age cap here? it seems that way to me. I am 23, LOVE swimming and still dream about what if i had devoted my time to my olympic dream. what if i started now, would I be at that level. I beleive you are the age u feel u are. its just a number. what do YOU think? :)
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wow, thanks for all of your responses. I know to get to the olympics is a extraordinarily challenging feat. otherwise we would all be going. Its like that tom hanks line in A league of Their Own, "the hard is what makes it great".
gull80: I used to swim in a summer league, and tried out for my high school team. I have always had a passion and competitive drive for swimming. I dont have great speed but my technique is good. But its just like Bob Mc Adams was explaining, that life sometimes erodes training time. School, family, finances, came before swimming. This being an olympic year, its just hard not to dream about being there. I dunno, maybe im naive, and just stuck in the "shoulda, coulda, woulda, what ifs." Time, i have.. Resources-lets just say, my parents are the best. and NYC is a great place to be.
Aquageek: what i meant to say about age-ism is that, you generally dont see or even hear about older swimmers in competition. (older swimmers being 40,50,60 etc.) They deserve just as much if not more accolades as their younger counterparts. In many sports, it seems like if ya ddnt go for it at the "average" age/time, its just not going to happen. Although, I know there are many many exceptions to this rule.
Whats is the Aorta thing about? sorry, im kinda slow today, haha.
wow, thanks for all of your responses. I know to get to the olympics is a extraordinarily challenging feat. otherwise we would all be going. Its like that tom hanks line in A league of Their Own, "the hard is what makes it great".
gull80: I used to swim in a summer league, and tried out for my high school team. I have always had a passion and competitive drive for swimming. I dont have great speed but my technique is good. But its just like Bob Mc Adams was explaining, that life sometimes erodes training time. School, family, finances, came before swimming. This being an olympic year, its just hard not to dream about being there. I dunno, maybe im naive, and just stuck in the "shoulda, coulda, woulda, what ifs." Time, i have.. Resources-lets just say, my parents are the best. and NYC is a great place to be.
Aquageek: what i meant to say about age-ism is that, you generally dont see or even hear about older swimmers in competition. (older swimmers being 40,50,60 etc.) They deserve just as much if not more accolades as their younger counterparts. In many sports, it seems like if ya ddnt go for it at the "average" age/time, its just not going to happen. Although, I know there are many many exceptions to this rule.
Whats is the Aorta thing about? sorry, im kinda slow today, haha.
