jhungary
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That usually is the death of an athlete. Sadly we live in an attention seeking, publicity hungry environment where people value quick bucks. Unless you are exceptional e.g. Usain Bolt, such publicity will harm an athletes career. You only need to look at one of team GB's examples i.e. the diver Tom Daley, he's a famous gay face, has books out, loves the limelight and he came last in his solo event. In the double he took bronze just about. Most of our athletes are warned to shun the spotlight, they take their training seriously.
Well, yes, that's usually spell the end of an athlete, people starting to get too much attention and instead of going back to do what they do to get to that point, they just lost themselves in the sea of medias and social medias
A lot of our rowing and cycling were pushed out because these people that done great in Athens and Beijing did not follow up, the name of the game should be the older generation athletes doing good than inspire a new generation of athletes, instead, the older generation inspire the newer generation to become a TV queen.......You see how good we are in 2000 Sydney Olympic and dominate the pool with the American in Athens (we got 7 and they got 12), then move on to Beijing still good with 5 gold, then suddenly in London, we only got 1. Folks like Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett all inspire people to become a TV star instead of Olympic Athletes.
On the other hand, the US Swim team manage to get their people feet on the ground, you don't know that many team USA swimmer beside a few great one, but most medallist you have had never heard of. That help keeping the American swimmer to get real and focus on what's important.
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