“You kind of have a date set in your mind and once that gets altered, you have to reset the clock,” Curzan said.
She turned 17 later that month, and said she thinks the postponement “was kind of the reason why qualified this year.” At 15, Curzan said her body would have been less developed than others in her event, the oldest of whom was born 10 years before her.īut while the extra year gave Curzan more time to work on her strength and fitness – she increased her dry-land workouts and running – moving the biggest competition of the year and not being able to hop in a pool whenever she wanted took a mental toll. Olympic Swimming Trials and qualified for the Games. Olympic swimming team.Ĭurzan was 16 when she finished second in the 100 meter butterfly on June 15 at the U.S. “I think in Tokyo the oldest guy is 35 and has kids, and then there's me at 17.” A year offįor Claire Curzan, the extra year provided to her when the Tokyo Games were delayed from 2020 to 2021 because of the pandemic might have been the difference between not making and making the U.S. “At the moment on the international stage you're seeing kids, especially girls, even as young as 15 have success internationally, but then there's also climbers that are well into their late 20s and 30s,” Colin Duffy, the youngest member of USA Climbing headed to the Games, said. USA climbing’s average team member age is 22. skateboarding team’s average age is 19 with the oldest member turning 35 this year. In newly-added Olympic sports such as skateboarding and climbing, the demographic of athletes is younger and spans a wider age range. High schoolers competing at the Olympics isn’t uncommon, and other countries are sending competitors even younger than the U.S. “She has made this little Alaskan town burst with pride,” Albert Plan, athletic director at Seward High School, wrote in an email to USA TODAY Sports on July 8. Even before Lydia Jacoby, 17, won gold in the women's 100-meter breaststroke, her friends and family in Seward, Alaska, were already celebrating her accomplishment. The task nine American high schoolers have achieved already just by qualifying for the Games is a life-defining one. TEXT WITH US AT TOKYO OLYMPICS: Subscribe to texts, where we’ll be your official guide to the Games NEVER MISS A MEDAL: Sign up for our Olympic newsletter now She’ll return to San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas, California, in the fall for her senior year of high school. Wettstein is one of several Team USA members competing in the Tokyo Olympics before they’re old enough to book their own hotel room or register to vote. “Because suddenly, when I'm about to dream, I'm like, ‘Am I even dreaming?’” Wettstein said. It’s part of the reason she takes a pause before going to bed each night. Wettstein regularly contemplates things like neuroscience and quantum physics. Her airy voice might make people who hear her speak think her head’s in the clouds, but it certainly isn’t.
The 17-year-old skateboarder is computing things differently these days. View a set of screenshots at the gallery.Watch Video: From after school skating to the Olympics with Brighton Zeunerīryce Wettstein isn’t quite sure what’s real or fake anymore. Never before has a visual novel been this immersive! The girls are rendered in a smooth animation style and change their expression as you interact with them.
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