Don’t take off the medal kid.

Kiwi swimmer Laura Quilter posted some terrific advice for all athletes:

I sort of tripped over a life-learning last year.

The strangest thing happened when I arrived back in New Zealand after racing at the World University Games in Korea, Everyone congratulated me.

See, at the Games I made my first ever individual international final in the 50m butterfly. The result of that one event was what people back home had heard about, courtesy of a few news articles.

No-one had any idea that I pulled out of the 200 freestyle because I was swimming so poorly.

No-one had any idea that my 100m freestyle was the slowest time I had produced in over 3 years. …

I was blindsided by positivity that first week at home. Congratulations flooded in. It was during that week that I realised how true all those sayings are. …

Don’t take off the medal kid.

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