{"id":303626,"date":"2018-04-02T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=303626"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:06:02","slug":"303626-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/303626-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Penny Oleksiak Embracing Success Heading to Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=penny+oleksiak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Penny Oleksiak<\/strong><\/a> still felt like a normal 16-year-old when she left for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She\u2019d never even been on a senior national team, and was little known outside the Canadian swimming community. When she came back to Canada with four Olympic medals around her neck \u2013 an accomplishment no Canadian had ever achieved in a summer Games \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/video-interview-penny-oleksiak-reflects-on-life-two-years-post-rio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she realized things would never be the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s all kind of a blur still. I just remember it being one of the best experiences of my life so far. I haven\u2019t had the longest life but it was amazing from what I remember,\u201d she says with a laugh when asked to reflect on Rio during her preparations for the Gold Coast 2017 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just remember having fun, biking around, joking around with my friends and\u00a0getting to meet people from everywhere in the world. For some reason in the moment I wasn\u2019t taking it in as \u2018The Olympics.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh this is just another swim meet and there\u2019s other sports here and I\u2019m just kind of meeting people.\u2019 But when I look back now that was crazy and such an amazing thing to experience at such a young age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was pretty fun for me in the moment but then afterwards I was like, \u2018Oh. Wow. I actually did that.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you go back to being a normal teenager after your face is all over national TV and magazine covers touting you as the world\u2019s first Olympic champion born in the 2000s, and Canada\u2019s youngest Olympic champion ever? How do you handle going from unknown to having more than 150,000 social media followers? How do you try to be a normal high school student when TV cameras are waiting for\u00a0you on\u00a0your first day back?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSometimes it was (too much) for me. Honestly I think I sometimes let stuff get to my head. I\u2019d go on Twitter and see some people trying to poke at me and stuff, or something like that. But I have such an amazing support team in my parents and everyone around me who tries to help keep me in line and keep me grounded and keep my thoughts in place. I think overall I\u2019m pretty good where I\u2019m at with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That includes a 2017 performance that can be evaluated in different ways depending on your perspective. Oleksiak finished fourth in the 100-m butterfly and sixth in the 100-m freestyle at the FINA World Championships in Budapest. Her 100 free time of 52.94 was just off her Olympic, Canadian and world junior record time of 52.70 that tied <strong>Simone Manuel<\/strong> for gold in Rio. She was also part of two mixed relay bronze medals that set Canadian records, and capped her year with five relay golds at the FINA World Junior Championships in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Had 2017 been her international debut, that sort of season as a 17-year-old would have been an unqualified success for a promising young swimmer. Cast in the light of the expectations 2016 may have created for some, it could have been perceived as a step backwards. On the other hand, when you consider everything Penny Oleksiak had to deal with after returning from Rio as \u201cPenny Oleksiak,\u201d it was in many ways incredible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c2017 was pretty good,\u201d Oleksiak says when asked to reflect on her follow-up to Rio. \u201cI think it took me a little while to figure out everything after Rio, and figure out like I can\u2019t drop my swimming schedule for media or anything. I need to stay on my swimming schedule and my training schedule, but this year I\u2019ve figured that out more and learned to get myself in line with everything and work around my schedule more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, she doesn\u2019t take for granted all the opportunities the fame associated with her performance has brought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m very, very grateful for my life after Rio because I got to experience so many things that I would never have experienced in my life. I got to go on a trip to Kenya with my family to help with WE (children\u2019s charity). I got to experience people coming together to celebrate the accomplishments of many Olympians including myself. I got to go to fun things like Raptors games and stuff like that. It\u2019s so crazy to think about those experiences and how if I hadn\u2019t done what I\u2019d done in Rio I would have never got to experience those things,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After two years with Ben Titley at Swimming Canada\u2019s High Performance Centre \u2013 Ontario, Oleksiak returned to her roots at the Toronto Swim Club with her childhood coach Bill O\u2019Toole for 2017-18. She\u2019s surrounded by younger swimmers and focused on enjoying what she\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy goals this year are mainly just to be happy and have fun,\u201d she says. \u201cThe last two years were pretty hectic after the Olympics, so this year was just more of a chill-out year and just being able to live my life and do what I want to do. Training-wise I\u2019ve just been trying to get a lot stronger and I think that\u2019s where I\u2019m at now. I\u2019m a lot bigger than I was just because of all the muscle mass I\u2019ve gained but also just trying to get stronger in the pool and fix tiny technique things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oleksiak has said many times she didn\u2019t want anything to change after her performance in Rio. As she nears her 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday in June, she realizes change is inevitable and starts to look back with some perspective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI feel like (Rio) was yesterday, but when I look at photos and everything I\u2019m like, \u2018I was a baby.\u2019 I look so young,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cIt feels like it was yesterday when I think about it but when I see photos or videos I\u2019m like, \u2018Whoa, I\u2019m so different now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSometimes I forget about it because I try to just be a typical teen and just live my life how any other kid would. But sometimes walking down the street people will be staring at me and my friend will be like \u2018Why\u00a0are these people staring at you?\u2019 And I\u2019ll be like, \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2026 oh wait, yeah I do.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not hard to believe (what I\u2019ve accomplished) like in my training sense and my swimming sense, but in my just normal life sense I\u2019m like, \u2018Is that me?\u2019 It\u2019s weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Press release courtesy of Swimming Canada.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Oleksiak still felt like a normal 16-year-old when she left for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. 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