If you want the commentators to talk about you longer, pick an event that takes longer…like the 1500 meter swim or running the 5k.
If you want to be the most decorated Olympian of all time, don’t pick basketball…where you can only win one medal every four years.
If you want to be the most decorated Olympian of all time, it helps to be elite by the time you’re fifteen years old AND for there to be an Olympic games that same year…that way you can compete in four Olympics while you’re still well under thirty.
