Our lone swim was from Bryan, our most decorated athlete in our history. Well even a professional can make mistakes, at the wrong time and place. In the heats of the 100 Fr, they march the swimmers out in heat 8 and there is Bryan, ready to go. He tightens his googles and they BREAK. He has no spare pair, he can't go back and get a pair. So being this great sport of swimming, someone throws him a pair from the crowd. He rushes to put them on, gets on block, starts race and......... They come off when he dives in.
Bryan still swims within 0.5 of his best time, but fails to make the semi finals.
You would think he would be crushed, we were. But no he comes to warm down and says my fault, I made a mistake, I should have had a spare pair with me. This is the biggest stage of our sport, I should have been prepared.
That was one tough learning experience. I guarantee he'll have a spare pair of googles when he marches out for the 50 Fr later in the meet.
Mistakes do happen, but it is how we respond to them, that is most important.
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