It found me. For much of last year I was gliding along, smugly brimming with experience and wisdom, expertly dodging all of the most annoying and tiresome pitfalls of the post-Olympic year. It was my third one, so I knew everything I needed to know about how to not have a bad post-Olympic year. 2009 and … Continue reading the Post-Post-Olympic Year
Keeping the Magic Alive
When you've made more than one Olympic Team, people like to ask you how your experiences compare - past to the present. What's different this time? Which one was better? I've talked a bit about how I feel I've grown and changed as an athlete over the course of three Olympic Teams, and what making … Continue reading Keeping the Magic Alive
Stop Trying to Ruin the Olympics For Us
Today we are one week away from departure for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Competition starts in eighteen days; and in twenty-two days I will have completed the final race of my career. Rio will be my third Olympic Team after walking on to my college rowing team in 2002 with no knowledge or … Continue reading Stop Trying to Ruin the Olympics For Us
The Truth About my Bank Accounts
When I first started thinking about how to talk about my financial situation in a public forum like my blog, one of my teammates just laughed and said, "Ok, just make sure you don't end up sounding like LoLo Jones!" (Jones earned a thumbs-down from the Internet and from her NGB for publicly complaining about her … Continue reading The Truth About my Bank Accounts
Moving On
Well, 2013 has been a hell of a year. For both of my goes at Post-Olympic years, both have packed a serious punch. There's something about coming off of an Olympic performance -- whether good or bad -- there's a sort of self-assurance that nothing coming at you can possibly be more stressful or more … Continue reading Moving On
The Historic Argument
On Tuesday, the athletic world was rocked by the announcement that the IOC had voted to remove Wrestling from the list of the Olympic Games' 25 "core sports". This vote by the IOC means that Wrestling, one of the oldest and most iconic of all Olympic competitions, may face elimination from the 2020 Olympic program. … Continue reading The Historic Argument
Megan Kalmoe, OLY 