By Daniel M. Keller — 2019
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With the Olympics drawing to a close, many athletes will begin to turn their attention to a crucial yet daunting question: what’s next?
At the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese athletes who fell short of gold have apologized profusely — sometimes, even after winning silver.
Seventy-one years later, Abel Kiviat still gets annoyed when he remembers the footsteps from behind that cost him a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics.
Regret means you wish you would have done something differently...but you can't.
Many athletes have Olympic-sized dreams, but in reality, only a handful actually make it that far. It takes the perfect combination of discipline, dedication, persistence, talent, skill — and even luck — to successfully compete in the world’s biggest competitive arena.
Abundant evidence suggests that the waning of ability in people of high accomplishment is especially brutal psychologically.