Swimming in Data
Swimming in Data
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畅游数据
DOI：
10.1007/s00283-024-10339-0
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发表时间：
2024
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Tenpas, William
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Douglass, Katherine;Lamb, Augustus;Lu, Jerry;Ono, Ken;Tenpas, William
女士们、先生们，这是奥运会决赛。”扩音器里传出雷鸣般的声音，但在万人震耳欲聋的欢呼声中，声音几乎听不见。裁判长长的哨声将世界上最快的八名游泳运动员召集到起跑台上。随着人群的噪音逐渐消退，视野开始变得狭隘，空气中充满了期待。参加奥运会就意味着已经达到了一项运动的顶峰。这是最年轻的夏季联赛游泳运动员和最杰出的职业运动员共同的梦想的实现，这是多年的牺牲的实现——艰苦的训练、失眠、错过了青春期的成年仪式，而现在，在数百万球迷面前，有机会带着奖牌回家，站在国旗上，感觉所有的努力和牺牲都是值得的。
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Olympic Final,” thunders from the loudspeakers, yet it is barely audible over the deafening roar of a crowd ten thousand strong. One long blast of the referee’s whistle summons eight of the world’s fastest swimmers to the starting blocks. The air is thick with anticipation as the noise of the crowd gradually fades and tunnel vision sets in. To compete in the Olympics is to have arrived at the pinnacle of one’s sport. It is the realization of a dream shared by the youngest summer league swimmer and the most outstanding professional. It is the realization of years of sacrifice—grueling workouts, lost sleep, missing out on adolescent rites of passage. And now, in front of millions of fans, the chance to bring home a medal, to stand on the podium draped in the national flag, to feel that all of the hard work and sacrifice was worth it. The chance to make history is at hand.