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By Siobhan Dale, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

Exactly four years ago a 17 year old girl with long arms, a beaming smile and a bubbling personality to match stood on the Olympic podium and captured our hearts. This year she walked off the Olympic deck and moved our hearts in a different way. I have a message for that girl and for every swimmer who has been impacted by her journey:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Missy Franklin and Those Who Stand With Her,<\/p>\n

My mom cried after your 200 backstroke swim. The last time I saw my mom cry at any swim meet was after I had the worst race of my life at my high school state championship meet. I know that the Olympics and a Connecticut state meet aren\u2019t equivalent at all. But the emotion my mom felt watching you despite the difference between our situations is what makes the connection so powerful. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those of us watching you– we don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to lose an Olympic title. But we do know what it\u2019s like to lose. Watching you at the 2012 Olympics, speaking in interviews as if you were speaking to your closest friends, walking the pool deck as if it were the deck of some local YMCA instead of an international stage, humanized the Olympics for us. <\/span><\/p>\n

Watching you felt like watching a teammate or a friend compete instead of watching a swimming icon. You were and you are an inspiration but you have never presented yourself as an aspiration. Missy Franklin was never the girl we all wanted to be. Instead, she was the girl we all are — the girl we can all relate to — and that is even more powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Olympics the world watched Katie Ledecky<\/b> and Michael Phelps<\/b> in awe, but people watched you in hope. Speaking personally, your name came up in my family\u2019s conversations just as much as any other Olympic swimmer\u2019s this year. Every person I have talked to about Olympic swimming has mentioned your name. People speak about who you are rather than what you\u2019ve done. It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t have interest in the amount of medals you\u2019ve won, it\u2019s just that we care more about the person wearing them. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2012, every newspaper, magazine article, and television piece on you spoke about an Olympian who was the captain of her high school team, an Olympic champion who still got nervous for her high school meets. You made people pay attention to your swimming career with all of your remarkable feats, but you taught people that there was more to notice than just a piece of metal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

If anyone went back in time to 2012 and told the girl on the podium what would happen at this Olympics, you wouldn\u2019t have believed them. It\u2019s easy to think at 17 that there\u2019s an invincibility to being on top of the world. At 21, it\u2019s harder knowing that there\u2019s also a danger to it –\u00a0 <\/span>the fall could be long and hard. <\/span><\/p>\n

But if anyone went back further and told a 7-year-old you what the 17-year-old you would achieve in 2012, you wouldn\u2019t have believed them either. There\u2019s not much any person can say about the future. They could tell us it\u2019s going to be amazing or that it\u2019s going to be the hardest struggle we have ever endured. We wouldn\u2019t trust them either way. <\/span><\/p>\n

The only person we can ever put faith in knowing what the future holds is ourselves. When you dive into the pool again it won\u2019t be for your coaches, fans, teammates, friends, or any doubters you\u2019ve had along the way. You don\u2019t have to do anything for us or for them. The only person you should now try to prove anything to is the girl who was crying at the end of the 200 backstroke. She deserves to have a little belief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There will always be people to catch you when you do fall. Despite your ability to make everyone watching you feel like a friend, the truth is we don\u2019t know much about your life. We know what we see on a screen but there is undoubtedly more to Missy Franklin than what we see. We don\u2019t know who you have to lean on, but we can promise that if there\u2019s ever a moment where you feel unable to find someone, you can take comfort in the fact that you have thousands of\u00a0people cheering for you. <\/span><\/p>\n

We may not know you entirely, but we know ourselves. You have connected with us in a way that so many other athletes have been unable to do. In every win you achieve, there\u2019s a part of us that feels like our best friend has just accomplished something amazing. In every loss you face, there\u2019s a part of us that feels we have lost too. You are the teammate we will never have, and the idol we will always treasure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

I write this piece not just to you but to every swimmer who has felt a connection with you. This connection is based on the struggles they themselves have faced, the kindness they have strived to embody, and the victories they aim to one day achieve. All three of these qualities (perseverance, kindness, and triumph) are the qualities which Missy Franklin has inspired us to hold onto, even in the most challenging of moments. <\/span><\/p>\n

When any of us walk off the deck without the victories we wished to accomplish, without the medals we strived for, we walk away carrying only one thing – our name. The person who dives in the pool is the same person who gets out. Missy Franklin, you leave Rio as the same girl who won all those medals in London. To every other swimmer out there– your jacket still bears your name, you still have the same friends as before, the same supporters, the same teammates, the same supportive family. <\/span><\/p>\n

When athletes lose any important race or competition a common sentiment they think or say is that they feel they have lost everything. Of course, it\u2019s unavoidable to feel that emotional at times. But the truth is, you haven\u2019t lost anything at all. You are the exact same as you were before. <\/span><\/p>\n

The person we strive to be is the person we are through the actions we take in the process of striving. Missy Franklin, people watched you in hope, and I can guarantee that we all still have that. You have taught us to look well beyond the medals to the person who fights for those results. And the person you are is someone I believe in immensely. <\/span><\/p>\n

So for those who can\u2019t believe in the swimmer they are, believe in the person you are instead. You are who you are, and that identity is rawly revealed in the thick of struggles. As long as you keep climbing, I will choose to believe in you. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sincerely, <\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Missy Franklin Fan<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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