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https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/black-and-white-blue-buoy-s.jpg800621We live in a society that glorifies the road to success as being paved with expensive training, high-end resources, and an outrageous expenditure of investments. As we watched our Olympians take on the pool with grace and skill, we thought in awe about how hard they must have worked and how many sacrifices they must have made to get there.