I feel so bad watching the OlympicsI wished my family would put my into a random sport when I was a kid, maybe I could've been part of all thisThey really got something to live forDid anyone here have a chance of getting there in the past?
>>153564933same, i couldve been godlike
>>153564933Was in swimming from an early age through high school. I never met anyone even near olympic level, you need to be a genetic freak
>>153564933If you had Olympic level talent, you would have been noticed at an early age.
What's stopping you from picking up a meme sport in which you can still perform at the highest level even if you're old?
>>153565147you got a point, but they didn't even try, I'm pretty tall at least>>153565178like which ones, shooting?
>>153564933I wrestled when I was a kid. Got as far as starting as a scholarship student for a D1 school, but that was as far as I got. I am just not built for the sport. Too tall and I have issues with putting on mass so I lacked the strength of guys who were much shorter than me and could pack on more muscle for the weight class. On the plus side I got an electrical engineering degree for free which was pretty nice. OSU has one of the best engineering schools in the country, so it helped me a lot getting my foot in the door like that considering how tough the competition was.
>>153565551CurlingWhere do you live?
Just troon out like the rest of attention starved losers
>>153564933>I will never have an olympian gfit's an abstract kind of suffering
>>153564933nothing is stopping you to put on some shoes and run 40km
>>153564933You are only watching the end result that's why it looks glamorous. Training for hours every single day, constantly having to watch what you eat, doing steroids... all that for no real money. It's a shit deal.
>>153575236kek>>153575684wait, winter olympians do roids?also, they don't get decent money? in any way, it's better than just being an average guy, money-wise, definitely
>>153564933grow up
>tfw you will never represent a tiny irrelevant nation as a wild card entrant in a niche sport because no one else in your cunt does it
>>153576305The skiers are all microdosing EPO
>>153565133>you need to be a genetic freakPretty much
>today I will remind them>>153580614https://youtu.be/8rqI8xwXVacStill kino>>153564933Iktf. There are supposedly some anons competing in 2028. Cheer for and live vicariously through them. Not that we know who they are yet but maybe if they're based and crazy enough we will. And if not well it could be anyone, which is its own kind of thrill.
>>153565147Anyone could get in to curling if they tried hard enough. The US men's curling team are all part timers who do curling on the side. If someone dedicated all their time to curling like figure skaters do to their sport, they'd become the curling GOAT
>>153565133Also in swimming. Trained with several people who made national teams, and raced against a couple of Olympians. In terms of dedication to the sport and effort, I had just as much as most of them, but I wasn't anywhere close to their level. The amount of talent required is actually insane. To put it into perspective, there was one guy who was far more talented than me, and trained harder than me, but only ever made one junior pan-pacs team. Then there were blokes a rung above him, who despite not training as hard, were making national teams, and medaling at nationals, but never made Olympics. Then there's the couple of guys who made the Olympics, but even then, they never medaled. That said, swimming is probably the worst sport in this regard.
Here's the harsh truth for a lot of you.If you were truly any good at a sport, you would have found out at an early age. You would have realized hey I'm kinda good at this, maybe I should do this more. And keep in mind most of those guys get filtered out by 16-18 which is where the real pros get separated from the rest. We all know the sporty guy back in school who we thought would make it big but got filtered. And he showed much more promise than us.
>>153581579Same thing here in Canada except they select them during our sophomore year especially if you’re into hockey and what’s even more brutal if the coach tells you that you can only play regional level instead of the Olympics
>>153564933come on, mani gotta wak eup to this sad fuckin shit?get urself together jesus
>>153581775https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryDOy3AosBw
>>153564933ARE U FUCKIN TARGETING MEU THINK UR TARGETIN GME WITHT HIS SHIT?? IS THAT IT??U AINT
I tried all sorts of sports and generally sucked at everything and no amount of training would have changed that. Now I just lift weights because it's simple enough for my motoric skills.>>153565133I went to a non-sports high school and two guys who were there at the same time still became professional athletes and national champions. Slightly interesting that one of them was well known locally as the gifted athlete guy while I never even knew that the other guy did some sports.
>>153581190Somewhat true but you still need to have some sort of natural talent and the level in curling has risen a lot in the last 20 or so years and the players who make it into the Olympics are almost always professionals now and dedicating all your time to it is almost necessary now to make it.There are good teams that didn't make it into the mixed event despite putting all their time, money and effort into just that for years and mixed event is by far the easiest one to get into. Realistically it would be way harder than that in US compared to Australia or Estonia as you first have to beat the local teams who are nowadays professionals who have played for 20 years.Finnish team for a while was a combination of old timers and some internet nerds who first saw it in 2006 and they did make it into the World Championship semifinals but they still never made it into the Olympics with that team. Despite being close to the Olympics level they at some point decided that it's not worth is since they can't dedicate all their time and money for it and that would now be required.So yeah that's the sport where it's technically maybe possible but it's still going to be really hard.
>>153581909archery and shooting are also possible
>>153586211Shooting is insanely competitive (unless you live in a tiny country with no shooting culture).
Can't fathom being this bitchmade, sorry
They didn’t because they didn’t love you anon.
>>153586367I knowBasically my cunt mother got impregnated by a local Chad, they got married but he was terrible and the he just had to roll along with me, while still trying to live her own life, fucked up
>>153564933same. I wish my parents had forced me to do hockey and lacrosse
>>153565133>>153581338There's a life hack. Ask Lia Thomas
>>153586416Sometimes it just happens as a side effect.I suspect my father is a bit Jewish and he was smart in his prime time and I did well in life but not in sports. You gotta compromise.
>>153575684the real benefit is having a community and social circle, not any monetary reward or prestige. you will always find friends through your meme hobbysport.
>>153581784Nice
>>153564933Just as a perspective, I have a buddy who was a star hockey player in my local town and then his parents sent him to a trials camp with some very low tier Junior team and he was absolutely shocked how EVERYONE was better, bigger, stronger, faster. I think that really crushed him and he never played hockey ever since not even recreationally. A small pond syndrome is real.
>>153586741I dont knowPhelps was depressed, right?Neymar had to pay friends to live with him
>>153564933>work for 20 years to be in the Olympics>compete and do well>Olympics over>you have sacrified your prime career-building years>you have no wife>no family>no sure futureThe corporate Olympic sponsors thank your for your sacrifice!The IOC cleared it: you can keep the T-shirt
>>153575684Same in music. And in all kinds of art.
>>153586793I have a similar story - I got to the point where I was playing D1/D3 tennis players and grew to really hate the sport
>>153586809well those are different problems that come with fame. but I have friends who play rugby, water polo, skateboarding etc who have made lifelong friends and met girlfriends though these activities.
>>153586827sounds like a 4chan shit poster/frog poster not an Olympian
>>153586827
you're looking at it the wrong way anonyou have talents, shitposting on 4chan is a talent in itselfyou just need to petition the olympics to make it an official olympic sport
>>153581579but you are limited by sports you get a chance to try, and as a kid you cannot really affect any of that, it's all up to parents and school
