﻿{"id":487385,"date":"2021-09-14T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=487385"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:59:45","slug":"lost-depressed-irrelevant-stephanie-rice-opens-up-about-post-swimming-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lost-depressed-irrelevant-stephanie-rice-opens-up-about-post-swimming-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lost, Depressed, Irrelevant&#8217;: Stephanie Rice Opens Up about Post-Swimming Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;Lost, Depressed, Irrelevant&#8217;: Stephanie Rice Opens Up about Post-Swimming Struggles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australian Olympic champion <strong>Stephanie Rice<\/strong> opened up this week about her post-swimming struggles and the challenge of transitioning back to non-swimming life.<\/p>\n<p>Rice posted a short clip to her Instagram feed of her crying, a display of the \u201cstrong emotions, both good and bad\u201d that she had agonized about posting about.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTrJcxlFsW4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by STEPHANIE RICE (@itsstephrice)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rice posted about the struggle of re-crafting an identity as something other than a swimmer following her retirement. (It\u2019s a process that her contemporary, Markus Rogan, spoke at length about in an interview with Swimming World earlier this year.) The emotions were churned up by Rice watching this summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Rice wrote in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many athletes and high performers speak about the challenges they face with mental health around transition. For me, transitioning was fuc*ing hard\u2026 and still is at times. After swimming, I felt lost, depressed, irrelevant and as though I had achieved the pinnacle of my life at 24 and everything moving forward would be far less exciting &amp; special. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So in order for me to move on, I had to completely let go of the person I was as an athlete and rediscover myself without the title of being \u201ca swimmer\u201d. This bought up loads of deep seated insecurities that I was able to hide by the validation and recognition I got by being a Gold Medalist.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rice, 33, is a decorated Olympian. She did the women\u2019s individual medley double at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and added a third gold medal in the Aussie 800 freestyle relay at the age of 20. She has seven Worlds medals (two silver, five bronze) to her name. She was still swimming at a high level at the 2012 Games, finishing fourth in the 200 IM and sixth in the 400 IM. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australian-olympian-stephanie-rice-announces-retirement-with-youtube-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She retired from the sport in 2014<\/a> and was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/stephanie-rice-inducted-into-the-international-swimming-hall-of-fame-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring, Rice has coached in the United States, has been involved in various sports (including esports) ventures and worked with Australia\u2019s Channel 7 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRvJn8Gr8Ep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentary of the Tokyo Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Rice ended her post on a positive note, saying that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Honestly, now, after doing so much \u2018work\u2019 on myself, I truly am so so happy and content. 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But watching the Olympics reminds me of the person I was back then and it\u2019s still hard not to feel sadness that that part of me is gone and isn\u2019t coming back\u2026and that\u2019s what the tears are for.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Lost, Depressed, Irrelevant&#8217;: Stephanie Rice Opens Up about Post-Swimming Struggles Australian Olympic champion Stephanie Rice opened up this week about her post-swimming struggles and the challenge of transitioning back 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