The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right
By Mike Gustafson, USA Swimming Correspondent
Wandering around on the pool deck at the 2013 AT&T Winter Nationals, a person of average height and body begins to feel like a hobbit. A forest of bodies canopies the sky, all of them with oversized shoulders and appearing more like large statues than people. Everywhere you look, swimmers stand tall. Many are over 6-feet, with a plethora of them standing above 6’4”. If they hadn’t worn caps and goggles, you’d think they were there to play basketball, or clean windows with their albatross-sized wingspans.
But darting in between these vertically imposing swimmers (besides yours truly) were a few swimmers who appeared like children among adults. Namely, because they were. Shorter than your average professional swimmer, these swimmers didn’t yet have the muscle mass of their older, more experienced veterans.
And yet, they were winning.
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But darting in between these vertically imposing swimmers (besides yours truly) were a few swimmers who appeared like children among adults. Namely, because they were. Shorter than your average professional swimmer, these swimmers didn’t yet have the muscle mass of their older, more experienced veterans.
And yet, they were winning.
For the full article click here.
