Swimming Star Missy Franklin: end of career with 23

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Already as a Teenager, she was unusually successful. For two years, but U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin is fighting only against pain. Now the five-time Olympic champion has made a decision.

Four times Olympic Gold at London 2012, four years later, a gold medal at the Rio Olympics, eleven world champion titles from the years 2011, 2013 and 2015 – the victories and successes, the US swimmer Melissa “Missy” Franklin in her career, has amassed enough to fill a much longer career, than her own. Missy Franklin is only 23 years old, yet you declared your retirement from professional sports.

Franklin spoke on Wednesday on Instagram from the “perhaps the most difficult letter I’ve ever had to write.” So you said the Letter published by the US channel ESPN. Swimming was her first true love, as it says in the Text. To be “in the water, gave me the feeling of freedom, playfulness and joy. There I was able to be fully myself.”

Greatest achievement: Rio survival

Missy Franklin: at 17 years, Olympic champion

Franklin, which took place at the age of 13 years in the elimination race to be in the Olympics in 2008, came with 16 permanently into the spotlight, has been in the past two years, but pain and persistent shoulder complaints plagued. Already at the Olympic Games in Rio she held on despite the pain and brought the US team to the finals. In the final she was not then at the Start. “In retrospect, the greatest achievement was to my career, to survive the eight days in Rio,” she writes. In the year after the Olympics, she had to undergo operations on both shoulders. Pain-free sport of swimming was then still possible. It took me a long time to say the word resignation, but now she was ready.

Franklin announced that she wanted to remain the sport of swimming in some other Form. In addition, you have outside of the pool goals in life: “I am willing to have every day pain,” said Franklin, who is engaged to be married for three months, with her longtime friend and Ex-swimmer Hayes Johnson, “I am ready to be a wife and someday mother.”