" Somebody's gotta make money." "Yeah." " Just, uh..." "Just kind of like a..." " Basic and then a really..." " 1/8th of an inch thick." " Yeah." "Black outline." " Are you positive about the outline?" " Yeah." " Okay." "Is that something that you can add later, like if you" " Yeah, you can always add on." " See, what she's afraid of is that because she's so fair, that the yellow ring will just fade out." " No." "Because you're so fair, the yellow ring will be very bright." "If she were- if your complexion was darker, the yellow ring would be light." "Yeah." " Yeah." " Are you excited, Kara?" " Yeah." "Finally?" " So..." " Please do this." " No." "You first." " Please." "I'll do it first." "I don't care." "I just want you to do it." " You have your rings." " Come on." "Absolutely." " All" " You deserve it more than anybody else." " Can we just have, like, a little vote?" " Rings, baby." " Four gold medals." "Can you believe that?" " Three times." " All in favor of" "Kara getting the tattoo?" " You deserve it more than anybody else." " Oh." "If anybody deserves it-what?" " All in favor of Kara getting the tattoo." " Oh, yeah." " Absolutely." " Nay" " Oh, oh, unanimous." "Unanimous." " See?" "This is peer pressure." " Unanimous." " This is what I was scared of." " Kara, you are getting it done." "You've waited too long." " I mean, I don't know how I could go on knowing that you break your promises to your little sister." " Missy." " I don't think I could ever trust you again if you broke this promise to me." " More than anybody." " Mm-mm." " Uh-huh." " I'll watch you." " No." " I love pushing my body to its absolute max." " Swimming is the same thing everywhere." "You get up on the blocks, you dive in, and your goal is to touch the wall before anybody else." ". GO, 90, go, g0, go!" "Go!" "90g Q0." " Go!" "Go!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yes!" "How exactly would you like me to sit on the diving board?" "Like, over here?" "Oh, really?" "Okay." "I'm gonna take my phone out." "I feel like that's gonna be a hazard." "Best interview ever." "All right." "I'm all set." "I'm Missy Franklin, I'm 14 years old, and I swim for the Colorado Stars." " Ready. 9°" " Swimming is such a great sport, and I love it so much because all of my best friends, every single one of them, are swimmers." "I mean, it's so much fun to wake up at 4:00 in the morning, and the practices are always really fun, and the coaches are always nice." "Oh!" "Like, when your friends are pretty much all swimmers, you kind of understand the saying," ""No, I can't." "I have swim practice."" " Go." "Good." "All right, main set." "After this, we're pulling and kicking." "This is a very common scene here, with the big kids practicing with the little kids." "That dynamic helps the big kids, and it helps the little kids because I think it's cool for the little kids to come in and see the big kids swimming." "But in the same vein, I think it helps these older kids watch those kids and watch how much fun they have and remember truly why they do this sport." "It's a choice if it doesn't say so otherwise." "Questions?" "Comments?" "Concerns?" "Ready. 9°" "My favorite saying is fundamentals." "You gotta have fundamentals to swim fast." "And guess what?" "The first three letters of that are fun." " This is the Morning Swim Show for Friday, April 15, 2011." "I'm your host, Peter Busch." "In the FINIS monitor today, we'll talk to Kara Lynn Joyce." "Hey, Kara Lynn." "Welcome back to the show." "How you doing?" " Hi, I'm good." "How are you?" " Doing well, thanks." "So how's training?" "I know you're training with Jon Urbanchek now." "You're sort of the lone sprint star in that group." " It's actually the reason I'm in Denver right now." "I'm kind of exploring other options." "I think I'll be making a move soon to Denver to swim with Denver Stars with Todd Schmitz and Missy Franklin." " Really'?" " Yeah." "Surprise." " Kara Lynn Joyce is a two-time Olympian and a four-time silver medalist." "And she's 25 years old." "And she just moved out to Colorado a few months ago." "And I think the first reaction was definitely surprise and shock from all around the swimming world." "Some people thought that she was crazy and had no idea what she was doing." "And other people thought she was absolutely brilliant and thought, "I mean, this girl knows what she's doing."" " Well, welcome to the house in Denver." "This is the dining room, living room, my second bedroom." "We actually moved my bed upstairs today because they're doing construction downstairs." "This is our lovely kitchen." "I made this this morning." "You have to try it." "Do you want a spoon?" " So I moved to California about a year and a half ago to swim on a professional team out there." "And it was great." "I loved it." "The team kind of fell apart in January, and a lot of people went to swim for another coach out there, and I knew I needed something a little bit different." "It's more of a distance-oriented coach, and I'm a sprinter." "So I kind of started looking around in, like," "February, March." "And I made some phone calls, talked to some people." "And I came out and visited Denver and swam with Todd and Missy for a week." "And I loved it." "The Stars is a really small team in Colorado, and we don't really have, like, priority on great pool time." "So we swim from 5:00 to 7:00 in the morning right now." "And it's hard." "It's hard to wake up at 4:20, and I've never done that before." "But it's nice because I don't- my job is swimming." " When I decided to come here, people were like, "Really?" "You're gonna swim with high school kids?"" "I'm like, "Yep." "I'm gonna do it."" "It's completely different from what I was doing before." "I was swimming with all people my age, all professionals." "And, you know, now I'm back with high school kids and it's-it's refreshing." " Spread it out for the 300 free." "Got a good recovery workout today." "Just got a bunch of good counting your strokes." "See how far you can go." "We've done that in yards." "We're doing the long course today." " Missy hasn't made an Olympic team yet, and neither has Todd." "It's kind of cool to be a part of that." " It's just unbelievable to be able to swim with someone of her caliber every single day." "And there has been so many workouts already when just having her there has motivated me so much." "And it makes it so much easier to push yourself when you have someone pushing you." " Ready. 9°" "Good." "Keep that stroke long." "Kara's a strong swimmer." "Kara's, you know, one of the- probably, arguably the best puller that I've ever seen in the world." "When the chips are down," "Kara knows how to get her hand on the wall." " I think that having her come out here has been one of the best things for me." "I have a new training partner." "I have someone who has been to the- been to my ultimate goal, been to the Olympics twice." " Yeah, so this is either my first or my second Olympic medal." "This is the Athens box." "I don't really know which medal it is because, unlike China," "Athens put the event in Greek." "So I won two medals, the 4 x 100 medley and the 4 x 100 free relay." "And so both of them say 4 x 100, and then something in Greek." "Yeah, so the front of the medal is always the same." "This is a Greek goddess." "Then the back, it's unique to each country." "And Beijing did a ring of jade." "And the silver medal is a light green, the bronze medal is a dark green, and the gold medal is white jade." "And then it has, thank God, the event in English." "You know, when you win a medal at the Olympics, especially in swimming, you're among many other people that are winning Olympic medals." "And, you know, it's not that big of a deal with the crowd that you're in." "And I remember when I came home," "I mean, all my neighbors came over, my grandparents flew-everybody wanted to come and see it, and I was like, "I guess this is a pretty big deal." "This is pretty cool." And it didn't really hit me, but growing up as an age group swimmer, there was, you know, meets where there'd be Olympians doing appearances, and they would bring their medals." "And I would think that is the coolest thing." "If I could touch it or just see it or take a picture with it." "Oh, my gosh." "So cool." "And I guess I didn't even realize until I got back that this is something I'm gonna have for the rest of my life that's gonna be special, and I can share it with everybody and hopefully have, you know, some sort of impact on them." " So what's happening?" " I don't know, but I really need to talk to Carla, and she's not answering." "Can I go to my friend's surprise birthday party?" "It's Kendall." "Kendall Higgins." "Her mom is throwing her a surprise party for lunch at the Brown Palace at 2:00 on Wednesday." " Sure." " HEY" " Except I don't want you driving down." " I can get someone to drive me." "Abbey's four- is legal in four days." "Three days now." " Yeah, you can go." "We just need to figure out how." " There are some pretty good swimming people that have come up through the ranks that live here in Colorado that basically felt that we would not be giving Missy the best chance if we stayed in Colorado." " Yeah." "Better watch yourself, mister." " People kept saying to us," ""Colorado's not a swimming state." "'Why don't you move to California, to Florida, to Texas?"" "And it was a good question." "But Missy was happy." "She had her friends." "She was doing well in school." "She loved her team." "She loved her coach." "And she and her coach had a fantastic relationship." "So there didn't seem to be a reason to move." "What's the matter?" "Oh, sweetheart." "You usually put this in before you get a full batter." " I did, but then it just fell out." " Well, you're gonna have to beat it with one." "Okay." " Missy can be tested, drug tested, by a couple of different organizations." "Either of those can come at any time between 6:00 in the morning and 11:00 at night, Missy?" " I think so." " 6:00 in the morning, 11:00 at night." "She has to report where she is at all times." "But we have one hour every day when she has to be where she says she's gonna be." "And her window just started." "She's 12:15 to 1:15 at home today." "So they could arrive at the door." " This is my favorite color." "Right here." "Love it." " Just drop it in, first of all." " OKEY" "Okay, then go like this with the pan." "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom." " Missy gets into making cakes." " I love baking." "Oh, careful." "Don't drop any of the dog food under the sink." " I'll kill you, Richard." "Daddy." "Look at the mess." " Oh, put your big boy pants on." " Missy, you done?" "You good?" "I'm done." "Hello." "Hello." "Hello, Daddy." " Hiya, baby" "How's my girl?" " Da." " When she was a baby, the main thing I was concerned about was water safety." " My wife, D.A., does not swim well." "She was raised in Nova Scotia." "Extremely cold North Atlantic." "So they didn't swim a lot." "And one of the things that she insisted on was to get Missy in the pool at a very young age, like six or seven months, and get her used to the water, get her feeling comfortable in it." "Good girl." " That's great." " Good girl, honey." " We had her in classes when she was five, joined club swimming, year-round swimming, when she was seven, and just got faster and faster." " On your mark." " When she was 12, she started to compete against girls who were much older, and coming in first." "It was absolutely amazing." "We could tell that she was enjoying it." "We could tell that she was pretty good compared to a lot of other kids." "But she was a kid." "You never know what's gonna happen." " We're not swimmers, but we have friends here that are in the swimming pool." "They're the ones earlier on that were- there were small things, like," ""Missy's special." "You need to know she- she's the real deal." Right?" " That's the big expression." " I remember that." ""She's the real deal."" " Yeah." "A little island in the sun." "Right?" " Missy is definitely special." "She's definitely gifted." "I mean, 16, six feet tall, broad shoulders." "She's built like a swimmer." "Missy works hard." "It's cool to have somebody to do all this stuff with." " Being there for each other and being able to help each other," "I think that we're both so good for each other." "And right now, these next few weeks going into Worlds," "I know that it's going to be super, super tough." "'Yes!" " In 11 days, we leave for Brisbane, Australia, for training camp for the World Championships." "Right after World Championships, we fly to Palo Alto, California, for U.S. Nationals." "The Nationals is a big deal this summer." "The way you can qualify for the national team for the-the year leading into the Olympics is to qualify at either World Championships or U.S. Nationals." "They take times from both, put them together." " I feel like all of the races that I swim will be important, but really just enjoying myself and learning what I can from all of these amazing swimmers that I'm surrounded by." "And then trials coming up in exactly a year today are obviously going to be the most important swims of my life by far." " Missy, are you excited for this trip?" " I am so excited for this trip." "Are you excited for this trip?" " I'm very excited." " ♪ 'Cause you're standing out ♪" " ♪ 'Cause you're standing out ♪" "♪ And I'm picking you for my team ♪" "♪ It's time to get ready, steady, go ♪" "♪ 'Cause I know that you're the only one ♪" "♪ That's in my dreams ♪" "♪ This is all new Here's a preview ♪" " How is your training trip going?" " I don't think it's recording." " Yes, it is." " Is it on red?" " Yeah." "You see this right here?" "Yeah, I opened a door, and I forgot to move." " Take your mark." "Go." " ♪ It's you and me against the world ♪" " It's going great so far." "I've had two practices." "And I'm already adjusted to the time." "It's been two days." " Hi." "That's yours." " Ready to go lift?" " No, no, no, not me." "Okay." "Look at that beautiful form by KLJ." " ♪ Let's start It's you and me ♪" "♪ Let's start ♪" " ♪ It's you and me against the world ♪" " I'm eating a lot." "So much." "Good." "I'm not the only one." "I don't know why." "I'm just eating all the time." " And we make it all right ♪" "♪ We take it on, take it on Take it all on ♪" "♪ We take it on, take it on Take it all on ♪" " Whoo!" "26.3." " Look at him." "What did you do?" " Hip-hip problems." "Getting old." "I taped it." "So hopefully doesn't cause me..." " Full of baloney." "You're not getting old." " Any more pain." "And that's it." " Yeah, that's perfect." "Keep doing that." " She qualified just for the 200 back." "So I'm sitting there looking at the cost of the event." " Dick almost didn't go." "He said, "I don't think I ought to go all the way to China" ""to see her in maybe two, maybe three times in the water."" " Totaling up China, it was, like, $12,000, $13,000, $14,000 trip for two minutes of swimming." " I don't" " You just go ahead." "I'll be behind you." " Ah!" " Natalie Coughlin was supposed to do the 50 back, and she withdrew from it, and Missy was the next fastest." " She's faster than anybody in this pool the last 25." "The key for her is this first 15 meters." " Zueva looks like she might have a slight edge in 4." "And it is Zueva who wins it, Terakawa second, and Franklin got third." " I mean, we were expecting nothing." "I mean, that's not her race." "And she gets third." "She gets bronze." "And you go, "This is a cool way to start it."" " And then, because of the year she's had and her times, they went ahead and put her in the other relays as well." " Missy Franklin, 16-year-old from Colorado." "Her World Championship debut." " And now she's really extending that lead." "Great start for the United States at the halfway point." " And this is a great moment." "And now 16-year-old Missy Franklin." " Look at Missy Franklin go here." "And she is blowing away the field right now." "Wow!" " 1:55:06." " That would have won the gold medal in the 200 freestyle, Ted." "When she gets a little bit stronger, gets a little older, more mature, she's gonna be dangerous." " Hocking pushing Missy Franklin." "Beisel looks like she's been passed now for third." "But Missy Franklin coming home." "She won't get the world record, but she does get the gold and shatters the American record." " I think a lot of people are gonna look back some day, four, eight, ten years from now, and look at China as Missy's breakthrough." " There are some athletes in our sport, within U.S.A. Swimming, on the national team, they don't want to lose more than they want to win." "And that's-that's a very, very strong emotion." "I do believe that that's the way Missy is." "But she doesn't seem to project that same persona that you see in these other experienced athletes." "There's still this innocence about her that- it-it's, uh... it's a little bit confounding to me." "It truly is." " Worlds, of course, was the huge meet this year." "There were 181 countries represented there." "And two days later, the National meet started, the U.S. National meet here in Stanford." " The World Championships, which just ended, was- was sort of an end of a two-year run for the U.S." "And now we start all over." "And the journey to London begins today." " I was only on the 4 x 100 relay at Worlds." "So..." "They don't use relay times for qualifying for the national team." " For Kara, her job is swimming and doing a dry land and getting ready for Olympic trials next year." "And so she really needs this money to live on for her day-to-day expenses." " She's one that, you know, doesn't have the luxury of living at home anymore and eating those home-cooked meals." "She has to- she has to make it on her own." " If you don't perform when you have to in swimming, you know, you could potentially be off the national team for the next year, which makes it incredibly difficult to get by as a professional swimmer." " Lane six, representing north..." " They're both coming back tonight for the 100 free." "Missy's coming back in- tied for third." "And Kara's coming back in second place." " From the University of Texas, Karlee Bispo." " The top six make the national team." "And if her time is below- what's the 16th in the world time?" "50...?" " 54:35." " 54:35, so Kara needs to better that time to get her funding." " Ready?" " Lane six, representing the Colorado Stars," "Kara Lynn Joyce." " I don't think there's a whole lot going through my head when I step on the blocks." " Missy Franklin." " By the time you get on the blocks and it's- and it's time to race..." "You just have to be on autopilot." "Swimming is the same thing everywhere." " Take your blocks." " You get up on the blocks, you dive in, and your goal is to touch the wall before anybody else." " Off to a good start." "She needs to be under 54." "'Go!" "Go!" " It is Missy Franklin and Kara Lynn Joyce." " Look at Missy Franklin go." " This is what we saw in Shanghai." "Great finish for Franklin in 7." " With the touch..." " Missy Franklin." " 53:63." "A personal best." "First time Missy Franklin has broken 54." " And your national champion and new 15-16 national age group record-holder, Missy Franklin." "Good job." " Was this a great race for you?" " You know what?" "I had so much fun, and that's all that I can ask for." "I did my best." "I'm happy, and it's nice to finally be finished and just enjoy it." "And it's so great." "Thank you so much." "Ladies and gentlemen, your national champion and new 15-16 national age group record-holder, Missy Franklin." " I don't know what she's gonna do." "She's just the- she needs to pay her rent." "I think she'll keep training." "She'll just need to do something to get some money." "Maybe she'll give some private lessons." "3:31:91." "That's..." " You know, maybe she'll give some clinics." "Maybe she'll do some coaching with Todd." "I don't know." " Yeah, we'll see." "I don't know." " Huh" " And now it is John Conger, Rockville, Montgomery." "Looks like he'll take the lead at the halfway point." "He does at 58.77." "He comes back with a 30.3." " I had a great prelim swim." "I think I went into finals seeded second." "Todd was really pumped about my prelim swim." "And I felt so good that morning." "And went back, took a nap, had a lot of confidence." "But got in for warm-up that night and swam a little bit." "Todd came over, and he was like, "How you feeling?"" "And I was like," ""Todd, I'll be honest." "Like, my legs are hurting." "They are really tired."" "The last, like, 15 to 20 meters, it hit me like a brick wall." "It just, like- piano fell on my back." "And I could not move." "L-I don't know." "My body locked up." "And I could just-l could see people, like, going by me, and there was nothing I could do about it." "Like, pushing and pulling and kicking as hard as I could and just not accelerating." "It's the worst feeling in the world." " The 100 free, I was just like," ""I am gonna leave every bit of myself in this pool." ""L don't care what it takes." ""L am going to go as fast as I possibly can and not have any regrets."" "So that's when I just took it out and just finished with everything that I had left." "I don't know." "It's just something in that last 15 meters that just comes over me and just gets me to that wall." "And just- I can't even explain it." "But I love it." " Missy Franklin, a junior at Regis Jesuit..." " Missy looks like any other teenager..." " Missy's wanted to make it into the Olympics since she was five years old..." " Regis junior Missy Franklin has stood head and shoulders above the rest..." " CBS 4's Jane Monreal catches up with Regis High's Missy Franklin." " I can't make anything come true, but what is your wildest dream?" " To make the Olympic team." " The World Championships in Shanghai," "I really think that's when things changed." "And she came out of there with five medals, three golds, a silver, and a bronze from the World Championships." "I know that's when the media started giving us and giving her a lot more attention." " You see the world record live." " She's just 0.2 of a second now off that world record pace." "She did it!" " A new world record for Missy Franklin." " Missy Franklin, a junior at Regis Jesuit, has broken world records and expected to qualify for the Olympics." " The athlete that the swimming world is watching with great expectations is a high school junior from Colorado." " Missy Franklin is- is a huge up-and-comer." "She's very outgoing, extremely versatile." "She, I think, is going to be someone to watch out for." " A Mile-High salute to this week's Broncos Country Hero," "Missy Franklin." " This is page 58, 3/4's of the way down, foreshadowing." "Okay?" "So then Nick says something a little bit funny at the end of the chapter." ""Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."" " Having a world-class athlete in your school is not a norm for anybody." "So we have everyone working in unison to help assist her in being a normal student." " Go ahead and don't worry about your assigned seats." "Go with your groups right now." "Get ready for your presentations." " I don't have time to eat lunch." "Can I kind of, like, chow while you talk?" " Yeah." " Okay." "You're awesome." "Thank you." "We should just each do our- yeah-our own paragraphs." " Yeah, we're all getting used to cameras." "And, to be honest, I don't think I've ever called Missy "Missy."" " What do you call her?" " I always call her Champ." " Is the steak on?" " I've already flipped the steak." "Just be a couple more minutes." " Sounds good." " Mm-hmm." "Kara's roommate, Michaela, her boyfriend went to- went to school with me, went to college with me." "And we've been out here for a couple years." "And we hang out." "And just kind of out of the blue this summer, he said, "You're still single, right?"" "And I said, "Yeah."" ""I've got someone I want you to meet."" " See, Logan told me, like, a good amount about you." "And so, like, when we met, I already kind of knew what he did." "And he asked me what I do, and I was like, "I swim."" " That's right." " And you were like, "I'm sorry, what?"" " "Like, well, at what level?" "I don't really understand."" "Yeah, and I was like," ""ls he just asking me because he wants me to talk, or does he actually know?" Like,"I swim for a living." "Like, it's a job."" " Didn't know." " He's like, "Oh, cool."" " It's like, "Cool." "You want a beer?"" " Yeah." " Ooh." " Ls this mine?" " We have the finished product." "Yep." " The chef." " Yes." " For Casey." "Kiss the cook." "Yeah." " Fancy home cooking." "Well, actually, we need steak knives, too." " Oh, yeah." "Unfortunately, I did not qualify for the APA, which is the national team funding for the year leading into the Olympics." "And that's-that's gonna be difficult on me." "It's definitely gonna take a few lifestyle changes." "I still made the National Team." "I just got my packet in the mail the other day." "They sent us this." "National Team welcome packet." " Whew." " And..." "London book." " You're going to all these different meets." "And during that process, you win a few, you lose a few." "You're starting to pick up this- these chinks in your armor or these- or you're shining your armor." "When you win, it shines." "When you don't, there's a little chink in it, and you have to go back home and sit down with your coach." "And you have to bang that chink out." "Or if you don't, it becomes baggage." " 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46..." "Good." "On the 25." "Two 100s on 145." "Stroke." "First one's heart rate 16." "Second one's heart rate 17." "Ready. 9°" "We're about halfway through Grinch Week, so the kids know that December 26th to January 2nd is gonna be the hardest week we have." "I call it Grinch Week." "They just know that we're gonna- we're gonna get after it pretty good." "We can get some good work done in the next three weeks." "Almost every one of these kids is swimming at a big meet." "So this kind of gives them a real good base and a little bit to kind of taper from." " I like to think about keeping the shoulders next to the face." "I like to think about-yeah." "Again, just rotating forward instead of side-to-side." "I think not big side-to-side motions." "It's like a forward rotation." " In that Millhouse?" " Yeah." " I mean, Kara's been a huge talent for a long time and has great success." "I mean, nobody's ever won the 1500 free in NCAAs four years in a row." "She's a great swimmer, has great success." "I don't think she's far off from where she needs to be." "You know, it's not like she's lost something that can't be found." "You're up here rather than- I think you can actually..." " Yeah." " I don't know if we'll be race-ready with that stroke in Austin in a couple weeks." "But for sure, we'll plan on busting that out in Indianapolis at the end of March." "It was a good practice." "It's the first practice in over a year that I've done a lot of technique work." "And I just had, like, a direction." "I'm excited to work on something and that's gonna be- I don't know." "I don't know the right way to put it." "But that also Todd and I can work on together." "Missy, you think I should bring this as back-up?" " Hmm." "Yes." "Absolutely yes." " No question." "I did my very first Nationals here in 2001." "I was 15." "And I think I got- what's the- when you win the seed final?" "What place is that?" "17th." "I got 17th place, and I was pretty excited." "I was excited to make it back with free." "But yeah." " Atta girl." " So that was 11 years ago." " ♪ Yeah ♪" " We are at the Grand Prix." "It is the first pretty big meet of 2012." "A lot of National swimmers are here." "So it's important." "It's important to swim fast, you know, get some momentum building in the trials." " The race was okay." "It didn't, like, hurt that much." "But I feel like if you get out, and it's not that painful, then you could have tried harder." "You know?" " We're in a transition phase." "And, you know, to be honest with you, I think she's exactly where I thought she was gonna be this week, not really dialed into it." "I mean, she didn't win 18 national championships at NCAAs by not being a good swimmer." "So we just got to get her mind back in the right place." " I haven't heard any yelling." " Want some music?" " She's been in there for three minutes?" "Oh, no." " 30 seconds." " So the rings." "What's up with the rings?" " The rings are, like, an Olympic swimming tradition." "And I would say 80 % of the team gets it." "Like, almost everybody gets it." "Guys usually get it..." " On the shoulder blade, biceps." " Yeah." "Or, yeah, on their suit line." "Girls kind of get it wherever." " Everywhere." "Normally, like, hip, lower back." "I remember telling myself I would never, ever get a tattoo." " Really?" " Like, never, yeah, growing up," "I was like, "No way." "I'm not gonna do it."" "But, like, once I started seeing everyone with the rings," "I think I decided that that would be the one tattoo that I would get." " I'm terrified of needles." "And I've survived two Olympics without getting the tattoo." "And Missy seems to think that if we make it together this summer that we'll be getting the tattoo together." "I don't know about that." " You go first, just like the ice bath." "Oh." " Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." " Oh, my god." " Ah!" " Oh, my god." " You gotta go fast." "If you go slow" " I can't go fast." " Okay, you've started." "You have to get in." " I can't do it." "Ah!" " You're doing great." "You're almost at a minute." " The Colorado Stars, Kara Lynn Joyce." "The Colorado Stars, Missy Franklin." " I got sixth place." "I went 25.9." "And I walk over, and Todd was like, 'Well, what'd you think?"" "And I'm like, "I think that was a shit swim."" "And he's like, 'Well, you know, like," ""you're training really hard, and, you know, the suit that you're wearing is crap."" "And I'm like, "I know this suit's crap." "It doesn't fit me right." But that's not a reason to go 25.9." "I struggle a lot because I know that Todd's giving Missy exactly what she needs." "And I've thought about this before." "You know, I've-if I came here and I trained with Missy and, you know, helped her reach her goals, would that satisfy me?" "And I've definitely had, like, times when I thought it would." "But I came here for myself too, and I have to remember that." " My backstroke's awesome, and my free's still really good, so I'm really happy with everything." " The sport's evolved so much." "And, you know, it's viable now." "You can-you can go pro and have a really nice lifestyle." " Right now, it's definitely not on the table just because of how much I want to swim in college." "I'll have the rest of my life to make money, but college swimming is something I only get to do once." " Missy Franklin is sweet, humble, and a swimming purist." "She's an amateur who's passed up nearly $160,000 in prize money and untold millions in endorsement revenue." "And according to her, that's not gonna change." " I mean, that's four years of earning potential she is going to be missing out on." " It's not something I would do." "I say go for the money." " The Wall Street Journal article that came out talked about the money that she's giving up on the endorsements and the possible opportunities." "And I can't believe how much fuss that article caused." "People have been going one way or another." "They think, "This is a great family, great kid," ""doesn't matter about the money." ""She's looking at swimming on her college team," ""looking at continuing to swim on her high school team." "Isn't this fantastic?"" "Other people go." ""Are these people nuts?" ""Someone should talk to those parents." "She's giving up money that could set her up for life."" " Meets like this are won or lost in prelims." "Okay?" "We've learned that in the past." "The history has been, you've got to go there, and you've got to swim dynamite in the field." "You've just got to go, and you've just got to do what you do best, and that is race." "Things you didn't have to think about." "If you're in a close race, you have got to win your touch-outs." "I don't know how many times I have seen it where a person's lost their touch-out and that's been the difference between the 16 and the 17, between 8 and 9." "I gave this example to Missy- I gave the example." "I mean" "I mean, great opportunity." "What was it like when you broke the world record in the 200 back?" " It was the most painful thing that ever happened to me." " That's exactly right." "But that pain goes away, and you forget it." "But during it, it hurts." "If it doesn't hurt, you're not swimming hard enough." "How often do you have a world-class swimmer, the fastest in the world, sitting here in your team, and you can ask her questions about her experience?" " A lot of swimmers at her elite level don't do high school swimming." "But again, Missy wants to have fun and support the team and be with her friends." " She's just having so much fun." "And she-she's just- she's awake." "She has excitement." "She's full of energy, and she's just bubbly." "She's just a wonderful person to be around." " So this picture-this picture shows how much the state- or how much high school swimming means to her." "When you have her teammates jumping in the water and hugging each other after a big dual win over Cherry Creek High School, who's a big rival of ours." "And the whole article's on not taking the prize money and how her priorities are on just swimming with her teammates." "And that-that right there?" "That picture represents why she swims high school." "Right there." "My girl." " I'm working on it." " Can you just-can you just come with me to the gym?" " Yeah." " Awesome." " Are we going to the gym?" " Yeah." " Why are we going to the gym?" " Because that's where we're setting you up." "They don't want to be in my office." " Oh, weird." " So let me preface what's going on here." " Okay." " The CHSAA guys and Bethany Schott is the Commissioner of CHSAA for swimming, okay'?" " Okay." " So she's here." "She's, like, six feet tall." " All right." " So you'll be able to look her right in the eye." "Okay, now, she-she- they want 10 minutes with you." "That's all." " We were getting calls from Brazil, from Italy, from England." "Being a physician with a doctor's background and not being a media PR person, this was all new to me." " So here's what- we're gonna do Fox first." " Okay." " Get them done." "And then in the same location, so we don't have to go anywhere else, we're gonna do CHSAA." " So of course, from the beginning," "I said yes to everything because I thought" ""lsn't that lovely of them to be interested in our daughter?"" ""That is just so sweet."" "And then we had to get more selective." " High School state is probably one of my favorite meets of all time." "Actually without a doubt one of my favorite meets of all time." " People say to us, 'Well, does Missy worry about high school?" "It must be really easy for her."" "And they're totally wrong." "Missy, I think, stresses more about her high school meet than she does about going to Nationals." "She-she knew the buzz that was going on about this meet." "She knew a lot of people were coming to see her." "And so there was a pressure there." " Next to the other teens at the dual meet against Cherry Creek," "Missy looks like any other teammate." "You'd never know she's the only one that holds a world record." " Her new-found celebrity has packed competitions, including this weekend's state meet in Fort Collins." " Hello, everybody, and welcome inside as we get you set for today's swim finals." "I'm Tom Helmer alongside Morgan Wager and Todd Schmitz." "And we're glad to have you with us today, whether you're watching locally or across the globe." "As we said, this is being broadcast in Australia," "New Zealand, and Latin America." " I know." "I'm, like, so amazed." "Like, she signed my shirt." "I'm gonna wear it for the rest of my life." "Holy Mary, mother of God." "R-R!" "R-A-I!" "D-D!" "D-E-R!" "R-A-I!" "D-E-R!" "Raiders!" "Raiders!" "Raiders!" "R-R!" "R-A-I!" "D-D!" "D-E-R!" "R-A-I!" "D-E-R!" "Raiders!" "Raiders!" "Raiders!" " If you're lucky enough to get a ticket to this one, consider yourself grateful because this is one of the top swimmers, if not the top swimmer, in the nation." " The thing I felt uncomfortable with was all the media around." " I couldn't believe it." "And my mom was like," "'Well, it's gonna be, you know, broadcasted to all these different countries."" "I was like, 'Wait, really?"" " Step UP  ls this really necessary?" "Like, I think I'm fine." " Whoo!" " Whoo." " This is not right." " I had someone say to me the other day," ""The media, we all love her." ""She's so humble, and I'm assuming, so much fun to be around."" "She said, 'We're just hoping that whatever happens this summer isn't gonna change her."" " I gotta grab my paper, guys." " I said to Missy the other day, driving up to practice in the morning," "I said, "You know, this is good." "This is good for you because your life is going to change."" ""Lf you do make London," ""it's gonna change even more, and you're gonna have to start" ""living life, you know, with a camera and photographers." ""And you're gonna have to kind of quasi-ignore them" ""and then just go on with your life." "You can't let that bother you."" " Also, I think we're gonna have a pretty good night tonight." "We'll have fun and go to our Red Robin dinner and celebrate on an awesome season." " So what's it feel like to be famous?" " I am not famous." "I am not." "No, I am not." "I'm not famous." "Lam..." "I have gotten media attention." "That is it." "There is no- there is no fame involved." "Lam..." "I'm not famous." "Who told you I was famous?" " Do you want a box for this?" " Or a bag." "Had those for a while here." " How old?" "Do you want to keep this?" " Um..." " Casey and I decided to move in together." "But I didn't want to move in May, you know, two months before trials." "What 26-year-old straight guy has a little fish tank for teas?" "You know we have duplicates of everything already?" "'Hmm?" " I already have most of this stuff." "My emotions are like this, and obviously, you know, in Texas, I was really upset with how I swam." "And talked to Casey until maybe 1:00 in the morning, crying on the phone." "And, you know, I talked to Todd about it." "I told him I was thinking about leaving." "And, um..." "I don't know." "I think we're just gonna make it work." " The best." " I wouldn't want to leave Missy, first and foremost." "You know, I-l love Missy, and..." "I just think it's such a special journey that she's on right now, and it's so neat to be a part of it." " Do you feel good having finished it?" " Yeah." " You gotta feel great, hon." " Good job." " Je m'appelle Richard." " Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir'?" " I think with us being older parents and with her being around older parents and adults a lot, being an only child, it's probably made a big difference in the way she has grown up." "What bothers me is you've heard it before." " It's in a song." " Oh, oh." "The amount of time I could give to my daughter or what D.A. could give to Missy when we're 20 or 30 versus 40 or 50 are two different worlds." " Stop." "Stop it." "Stop!" "No!" "Daddy cooties!" "Stop!" "Will you help me up?" " We don't feel that we're missing out on anything, you know, because we've been there, done that." "So now it's all about Missy." " You're driving me nuts." "You need to get going." "I thought you were ready to go." "You know, what the hard part is, when she travels so much with the National Team, she's independent." "I mean, she is with them." "There's not much chaperoning at all because they're all adults." "So when she comes home after being gone for a period of time, she's again the 16-year-old high school student." "And we have rules." "That's the hard part for her, I think." "I'm about to have a mother minute." " Okay, would you calm down?" " Don't be rude." "We need to get going, sweetie." " We're going to be fine." "Excuse me." " Excuse me." " Six, seven, eight, nine, ten." " I'm kind of a little bit scared to go to college because I know it's probably going to be a bit different." "But that's why I'm really excited for my college search." "But I know that I'm gonna have to find the coach that kind of works a little bit like Todd does." " There are athletes that depend on their coach a whole lot as a leader." "There are athletes that depend on their coach as a partner." "And there are athletes that utilize their coach as a measuring stick for what they know they need to do." " I'm-l'm 26, and I'm 100 % in control of my career." "And, you know, Todd is there as my coach, and he's also there to aid me, but in the end, like, I do know what's best for me." "And I'm just gonna try to- to do that to my best ability." " So how excited are we for training trip?" "Whoo!" " We should be excited." " We have just arrived to the Florida Keys, literally just pulled up to our hotel." " There's-look, like, look at this." "You can just pull up a boat." " Ah!" " Oh, my gosh." " Oh, I love the smell." "Missy." "Push Colleen over." "No." " ♪ Because you always loved me ♪" "♪ Oh what I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ Oh what I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ I'll carry the weight ♪" "♪ I'll do anything for you ♪" " Good!" " ♪ My bones may break ♪" "♪ But I'll never be untrue ♪" " This is for the face." "You apply this to the face." "You get a little stick, which works great." "You put this everywhere." " ♪ Oh, what I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ Oh, what I wouldn't do ♪" "Ah!" " I'm gonna touch the wall." " Yeah." " Ah." " I touched the wall." "You see those biceps?" "Yeah, see?" "Uh-uh." " Hi." " Hi, guys." " Whoo!" " Oh." "What is he-?" " ♪ I've never been a swimmer ♪" "♪ But I know that I'll never drown ♪" "♪ Oh the things I never noticed ♪" "♪ Opened my ears to the chorus ♪" " 3:37." "Excellent job, K." " ♪ You have made me listen careful ♪" "♪ And you gave me the line ♪" " Swimmers." "Oh!" " ♪ Whoa Whoa ♪" "♪ Whoa Whoa ♪" "♪ Whoa Whoa ♪" "♪ Whoa Whoa ♪" "♪ I'll carry the weight ♪" "♪ I'll do anything for you ♪" "♪ My bones may break ♪" "♪ But I'll never be untrue ♪" "♪ The current grows stronger ♪" "♪ Under different shades of blue ♪" "♪ I've fallen in your water ♪" "♪ Oh what I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ Oh what I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ Oh what I wouldn't do ♪" " I don't really know if that's a good idea." " You're going-good- just a good mix today." "All right, we're gonna go probably about 60200." " Wait, are you kidding?" " And then six 50s, kick on 105." "Then six 50s on stroke." "On 110, descend one to four." "Hold five and six." "Then six 50s kick." "And then six 50s on two minutes, fast." " There is no way." " Yeah." " Go ahead." " Why are we doing more today?" " Because I like kick." "I want strong legs." " How can we be good if our kick is absolutely exhausted?" " I'm serious." " Why don't you get in for the workout?" " Are you kidding me?" "I wouldn't even make warm-up." " Yeah, neither will we." " I'm not-look," "I'm not preparing- I'm not swimming in the Indy Grand Prix." " We are." " I'm just doing the dang 100 in the Indy Grand Prix." "I don't want to do this main set." "I really need to talk to you about it." " Is this happening?" " Yes." " I think you're being" " Don't point your finger at me." " I think you're being so damn negative right now, Kara." " But I'm telling you how I feel." " No, I know, okay." " Like, how my body feels." " But it's your mind." " And it's so frustrating going into this meet." " It's your mind, Kara." "Kara, I don't understand what you're going for, okay?" "Kara, I walked out of here on Saturday saying you had the best workout that you've ever had with me, and you-you turned to Crystal, and you were like," ""Eh, whatever." I'm throwing kudos at you left and" " But it's not gonna cut it." "It's not enough." " What do you mean?" "Coming home with a 27.7?" " It doesn't end right there." "There's a lot more." " What- I don't understand what" " What do you want me to do?" "Walk out and be satisfied, like that's good enough?" " No, I want you to be happy that that workout was good, Kara." " I was happy." " At 26 years old, when you're trying to make your third Olympic team, if it's not about you, then it's not gonna be fun." "And it's not gonna be fulfilling." "I've said this to a lot of people, that you're realizing every day that this journey at 26 years old is a hell of a lot different than 18 and 22." "And that's part of it." "That's why a lot of post-grads fail." "Because there's not anybody taking things off your plate." "There's not anybody sheltering you." "I mean, you know, at the end of the day, you and I both know how much Missy's sheltered by me, by you, by D.A., by Dick." "Okay?" "Because we all know- we all know that a 16-year-old isn't- isn't aware enough to realize that not everybody's out to be your best friend." "And not everybody's gonna be positive." "So at the end of the day, Kara, why are you swimming?" " For myself." " OKEY" "You know, I probably won't be a millionaire doing this." "But..." "I truly have the best job in the world." "You know, I look at..." "You know, teaching those life lessons to these kids." "You know, even a 26-year-old." "You know, being able to teach even her... that-that's- that's a cool thing." "Hip!" "This'll be our last grand prix of the season." "You know, really- you know, being less than three months out, we just gotta get some work done in the next couple of months." " Hey, good luck in London, Michael." " Go, have fun." "Look, race it, all right?" "Don't be too relaxed that first 50." " I'll try, but it's hard not to be too relaxed while you're telling me to relax." " And this is one race, at least here in Indy, that clearly Missy Franklin is the heavy favorite." " Hew Hey!" " Franklin almost a body length ahead." " Thanks, bud." " Hew Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Get in there!" " So Missy Franklin posts her best time of this year." " That is for you." "Thank you so much." " Wow." " You are awesome because you wished me good luck before I swam." " Introducing the championship contenders, in lane number four from the Colorado Stars, please welcome Kara Lynn Joyce." " For the Colorado Stars, in lane six, Missy Franklin." " I could have prepared better for this meet with some rest, maybe a practice taken off or something like that." "Probably would have helped." "It was weird, like, tonight when I was getting ready in my hotel, like, I was trying to visualize, like, the good race that I was gonna have." "And I, like, couldn't see myself winning." "Couldn't get that one." "Coming up." " Okay." " Thank you." " Stop" " All right." "That's it, guys." "Thank you so much." " Thank you." "Yeah." " Wow." " I think it's a little big." "Yeah." " It's not like you're fat." "You don't have anything to hide." " Oh, that's beautiful." " Prom is so much easier." "." "Why'?" "Okay." "So be home by 10:00, right?" "I love you." " You guys have a great time." " Thanks." " Okay." " Drive carefully." " Yeah." " Love you." " What about my black windbreaker that says "London" on it?" " Oh, yeah." "Right." " Let me know when you get to the next place." " Love you." " Well, the kids were- they all went to Florida for the training trip, and I think had a lot of fun." "There may have been some drama, Missy said." "We didn't really get into it." "And they went directly from the Keys to Indy, and we flew into Indy." "And, of course, Dick and I weren't on the deck." "We were sitting up in the stands." "And all of a sudden, everything was changing." "We heard that Kara might be leaving the team, and that was all confirmed by the end of the weekend, that Kara was gonna go down to Charlotte." "I'm not sure totally why Kara left the team." "I really don't feel it had anything to do with Kara and Missy- Missy's relationship because they've been like sisters." "And very close." "And it's been a year now that they've been together." " Welcome to my apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina." "It's a little sparse." "Tube TV, circa 1985." "There's a lot of empty space, but it's not big." "But, you know, it's everything I need." " You have the full array of all the pools that we might otherwise use in a given week." " This is actually really close to my aunt's house." " Yeah." "If you want a car, take a carpool." " You had the carpool?" " Oh, yeah." "Four years ago when Mark Schubert initiated this program, he called it the Center of Excellence." "It's really now known as a post-grad center." "The idea was to create some centers that weren't collegiate based that would have- we'd be able to put the best Americans and train for their Olympic ambitions." " Sleeping your way into the last phase of our quality training and end a taper is very appropriate." "I've only told one person that their official taper has begun at the meet." "That's Nelson Westby." "He's the only one that got the" " Whoo." "Yeah, Nelson." " Yay, Nelson." " And as you guys know, that's partly because Nelson works his ass off every day and does everything and goes above and beyond, and part of it is to protect him from himself." "So do not bust his balls if he gets out using the ladder." "Okay'?" "So he's allowed to do that." "Oh, Kara Lynn, you owe me..." "Where's Kara Lynn?" "You owe me 20 push-push-ups." " Do it now." " Now." "Now, now, now, now." " You can do two sets of 10, if you want." " All right." " She's not-you're not tapering Yet" "In many ways, now that we have the pleasure of having 25- to 30-year-olds in our sport, we have to go even to the next step, which is we need to have full engagement of them," "in essence, becoming their own coach." " Whoa." " Whoo!" "Whoo!" " You know, young people don't need this." "They don't need a stopwatch." "Young people need to learn how to love the water." "They need to learn how to have a good experience at the pool." "The sport needs to be fun in general." " I am not fat anymore." " You are fat." "You're fat." " Not fat." " You are fat." " We are raunchy, and we are crude, and we're, I mean, just ridiculous with each other." " That's a long way up." " When I got to Colorado, I was like," ""I'm around a bunch of kids." "I need to censor myself." "You know, I need to be appropriate."" "Now coming here, and it's adults again," "I'm like- I'm, like, rated G here." " Stay with the rhythm." "Stay with the rhythm." "Stay with the rhythm." "Stay with the rhythm." "I sound like a song?" "That's what should be going on." "You should have a song in your head when you're swimming." "On your rhythm." "Stay in your rhythm." "Stay in your rhythm." "Stay in your rhythm." "Find your rhythm." "Stay in your rhythm." "There's a lot more power in- when they're making the choice to decide to do this." "Touched the gutter, didn't you?" "I love swimming now." "Swimming is fun now." " I like messing with her." "I'm just messing with you." " What?" " I'm just messing with you." " I know." " I just said" "I like messing with you." " Yesterday, you know, the Denver Post asked me what Missy's events were, and I said, "Oh, these five events," and, Christ," "I'm getting emails from NBC Olympics asking," ""Oh, is that her five events?" And, 'What's going on?" "Just relax." "Let the-let people swim, and we'll see what happens." " With London fast approaching, the Olympic summer is underway." "For two of swimming's newest faces, there's an abundance of youthful speed." " She was built for the part." "6'2", with a 76-inch wingspan." " All of the experts are saying you are going to be the breakout star of these games." " So nine 1-ers, 10140,10130,10120." " The rivalries between America's best heat up." "Natalie Coughlin is already among the most decorated" "Olympians ever, but a teen phenom has arrived." " No medal count?" "No events you want to win?" " No, it's not about winning for me." "It's just going out there and learning." "I can't even tell you how much this means to me." "You guys are my life." "I love you so much." "And just knowing that no matter what happens with some race" "I'm gonna come home to you, is the best feeling in the world." "So thank you so much for all your support." "And I love you all more than you know." " The Olympic Trials is the most stressful eight days for any athlete in the United States." "This four-year journey that you have literally takes place in a matter of eight days." "There's no second chances." " Trials, it's like, all the lights, that many people." "I'm like, "All right, let's g0."" " There is an energy in the building that is palpable." "You gotta perform on that day." " We're ready for tonight." "Big night." " So Doug's been saying- teasing me." " He's my older brother." "He-l'm the better looking one." " No, no, no, no." "I'm the- he's the talker, right?" " So you're all relaxed?" "Is that what you're saying?" " He's not relaxed." " I know." "Did you hear him?" " He's ready to chew that plastic bottle in half." " I'm totally relaxed." " Yeah, right." " Nothing bothering me at all." " No, baby." " I'm ready for this." " For the 200 backstroke, Missy Franklin!" " And then Missy Franklin, trying to make her first Olympic team." "Been dreaming about this moment since she was a little girl." " The championship final, women's 100-meter backstroke!" " She can finally officially get on an Olympic team if she finishes first or second." " Take you marks." "Bootsma below her in lane five." " Work those kinks out this first 25 against these youngsters." " Coughlin running first, Bootsma second, and Missy Franklin fourth." "She'll get back on the Olympic team in this event." " Well, Smoliga is sort of the dark horse." "She's right above Missy Franklin." "Both of them are gonna have to work all the way back." "There's Smoliga." "There's Coughlin." "And there is Missy Franklin." " She's better at the 200, so that finishing strength kicking in for Missy Franklin, who is a United States Olympian." " A new American record." "Missy Franklin!" "Yay!" " Oh." "Oh." "I love you." " I love you." " I'm so proud of you." " I want a kiss." "Oh, that's a big kiss." "Give you such a hug." " Congratulations." " It's all in the family." " Honey." " I'm so happy for you." " We were sick." "Sick we were." "We were dying." " Very stressful." "We were dying." " Hey, Miss." "When did you realize it was 100 back?" "Just sorry-just asking." "Oh, god, baby." "I'm so proud of you, honey." "I am so proud of you." "Oh." "How about for the coach?" " Come on, Todd." " Yay!" " Gave me a heart attack, but..." " Are you excited?" " Yeah." "It's only day three, though." " You see my toes, too?" "Oh, my gosh." " Now she's the one they want to knock off." "So no-no breathing easy for about four more days." " Second trial." "She was just 14 years old four years ago." "So who's gonna finish second behind Phelps?" " So you could say Missy's doing pretty well?" " I think Missy's doing great, exactly as predicted." " Yeah." " I never had any doubt that she would do well." "I told her yesterday after her swim, like," ""I knew you were gonna go 58.8."" "And she was like, "How did you know that?"" "I'm like, "I trained with you every day for a year." "I know what you're capable of."" "Davis." "Don't die, Davis." "Don't die." "Go." "Oh." "It's heartbreaking." " Is it?" " Yeah." "It really breaks my heart." "And it's hard when you see somebody that you've been training with day in and day out." "And I mean, I've been training with Davis since I was" "I think when I was, like, 15 or 16." "We were on a team together in Michigan." "And, um..." "You can say that somebody deserves it more than another person, but it doesn't matter." "You know?" "It's all about who gets their hand on the wall." "It's just hard to see." " 17-year-old Missy Franklin, after winning the 100 back last night, it was vintage Missy." "She said," ""I can't believe I'm an Olympian."" "In lane two." "Four lengths of the pool in the final of the women's 200 free." "Allison Schmitt has a full body length lead on the field, and that includes Missy Franklin two lanes above her in lane two." " Can catch Schmitt." "Now she's starting to explode by everybody, including..." " Not gonna get her." "Missy Franklin's got too much speed down the stretch." "And there's an American who..." " Missy just made the Olympic team in her second event." "Missy qualified in the 200 free." " So I just tried to take it out." "I knew Schmitty was gonna be really out there." "She's such an amazing 200 free..." " It's hard not to be there." "I want to be on deck watching this stuff." " Missy Franklin!" " So a chance for her to add another event." "And swimming very well in lane four." " Boy, this is gonna be a close one." ".046 of a second separates the top eight." "On the wall, it's Hardy followed by Franklin." "What a great start there by Franklin." "Good jump on that gun there." "She hasn't been very sharp in this event because she's been swimming other events." " Franklin with her fourth individual event." " Missy, go earn your dreams." "Oh, yeah." " We love you!" " Whoo!" " What I understood was you didn't- you didn't get a chance to celebrate last night." "They're wondering- everybody's wondering why, when you touched the wall and you made the Olympic team, you didn't celebrate at the wall." "So you're gonna get a chance that not many people get in this world." "You're gonna get a do-over." " Yes." " Do-over celebration opportunity." "Come here with me." " A dry land." " Come here." "Dry land do-over celebration right here." "You're-come here." "You're right here." "And you're swimming breast stroke into that wall." "And that is the finish, so show me that- show me what that celebration's gonna be like this time as you're- in your mind." "She's gonna finish into you." "Right into that wall." "You're finishing right into that wall." "Go ahead." "Show me that stroke." "Go ahead." "Go ahead, breast stroke." "Breast stroke, come on." "Here, I'm next to you." "Go!" "You're-your swimming is the fastest in the pool." "You know, all- all I want you to, you know, improve is to get up- get up and get something." "So this is normal adjustment." "Just make the adjustment tonight because you're gonna go fast." "I mean, you're gonna go- it's not you." " Yeah." " You're Kara Lynn." "Okay." " All right, thank you." " Kara." "It was so good to see her again." "I missed her so much." "Kara's in the 50." "And I know she's gonna do great no matter what." "She's already been- I think her times from this meet have been the fastest she's gone since, like," "Pan Pacs, 2010." "So I mean, no matter what, I hope she's happy because she has no reason not to be." "I'll be going crazy for her because I think she deserves it more than anyone." "But we'll see." " The final sprint of these trials, the women's 50 free." "Two-time Olympian Kara Lynn Joyce is in lane two." "Not on the team yet." " Go, Kara!" "Kara in lane three." "Below her is Jessica Hardy, who we expect to win this final, in lane four." "Boy, she's gonna have to make it up now because that is not as good of a start as she had in semis." "0.05 of a second slower." " So many swimmers bunched up." "Dara Torres looks like she's running second to Hardy." "And then below Hardy is Christine Magnuson in lane five." "Here comes Hardy to the wall." "Can Dara Torres get in second?" "No." "Kara Lynn Joyce." " Oh, my god." "She made it." " Yeah!" " Officially, 24.73 for Kara Lynn Joyce from lane two." "And your winner..." "Jessica Hardy." " Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for the staff, coaches, and swimmers representing Team U.S.A." "for the 2012 London Olympic Games!" " ♪ I'm up with the sunrise today ♪" "♪ Searching for the perfect words to say ♪" "♪ Lingering good-byes ♪" "♪ But we both know it's time to fly ♪" "♪ Horizons are calling to us ♪" "♪ Distances quieted by trust ♪" "♪ Torn apart by miles ♪" " Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Yeah!" " ♪ All aboard, brave souls ♪" "♪ All aboard, brave souls ♪" "♪ We move on ♪" "♪ But we never forget ♪" " The first thing that people ask you when they find out that you go to the Olympics is like, "Do you have a medal?"" "No." "I don't have a medal." "But I can't explain my story." "And, you know, I don't have enough time to tell them how proud I am just to have gone and just to have made it." "Like, that was the big accomplishment for me, you know, and not bring home a medal, but just being there was- that was my win." " ♪ Feel the sunshine like a promise ♪" "♪ As you turn your face toward it ♪" "♪ Tell the stories of our time ♪" "♪ And the truth down to the core ♪" "♪ You can't ignore it ♪" "♪ Let it pull you closer and closer ♪" "♪ All aboard, brave souls ♪" " Here comes Missy Franklin, well ahead of the world record line." "She's gonna get her second individual gold." "And this time, it's gonna be a world record for Missy Franklin." " We move on ♪" "♪ And I will never forget what we paid ♪" "♪ I'll never forget what we've saved ♪" " And now it is my honor to introduce our own Olympian," "Missy Franklin." " I told her today, I'm like," "'Which shirt are you gonna wear to this welcome home ceremony?" ""Like, we need to coordinate so we're not wearing the same one" ""so people don't think that I won four gold medals" ""and you tied three-way for 16th place."" "And she said back," ""I would be honored if people thought" "I tied three-way for 16th place because that's amazing."" "It's just really sweet." " ♪ So all aboard, brave souls ♪" "♪ All aboard, brave souls ♪" "♪ We move on ♪" "♪ We move on ♪" "♪ But we never, never forget ♪" " Thank you for asking me to pick up the bronze and not my gold." "I really appreciate that." " Tell me about it." " It gets left out a lot." "It's my first Olympic medal, which is so cool." "It's just so weird." "I had a moment the other day where I was just" "I was taking it to weights because my trainer's daughter was coming in, and he asked if I could bring it in so she could see it." "And so I was bringing it in, and I think throughout, I mean, this whole process of just sort of, like, taking them everywhere with me and taking them out and showing people, and" "you kind of forget what they are." "I mean, you go through it, and you're so busy, like, showing everyone else." "And they get so excited about it." "And you- you get kind of used to it." "And so I made sure I took time the other day to just kind of sit there with it and just sort of realize what happened because it still doesn't feel real." "No." "I mean, I feel like the immensity of meaning that is behind these medals is just, like, too-too much to comprehend." "So you can't just do it in one sitting and realize what you're holding." "Like, it's just-it takes time to realize what you have right in front of you." " So you weren't feeling that extra pressure?" "You just kind of felt like, "I'm just gonna lay it all out there."" " Yeah, you know," "I didn't have nerves, and I didn't- I didn't feel pressure." "And, you know, it wasn't about, you know, all the people that came to visit me or all the people that I knew were back home watching." "Like, nothing-nothing was gonna get to me, and it was just about, you know, my dream in that moment." "And that's what I was thinking about." " When you're entering the pool getting ready for that race" " You know, it-it's kind of interesting." " Go, go for it." "Just go." " You look so pretty." " You too." " Thank you." " Kara taught me so much." "I mean, I learned so much from her." "She taught me a lot about being tough." "I want to be as nice as I can to everyone." "And I love, love, love, love that" "But there's times when you need to be selfish." "Not in the bad way, but in the good way to do what's best for you and your training and your body and just your mental sanity." " I think we all can learn something from Missy." "I asked her about going pro, and she just said," ""I'm not gonna live with" ""the fear that something might happen." "I just want to enjoy the moment."" "I mean, I don't know if I could do what she's doing at 17." "I don't know if a lot of people could." "I'm sure a lot of people would have cashed in." " I want to be the best role model I can be, not only for my parents and my extended family and my friends and the people that I care about so they can be proud to call me their daughter" "or be proud to call me their friend." "Because they have done everything for me, and I just want to make them proud of me." " Are you getting excited?" " Um, I'm just undecided." " Kara." "You're putting a kind of little memento on your butt." "You're not getting a monkey's head or your mother's face." " You want to go look at it in the mirror?" " It literally did not hurt at all." "Yeah." "Oh." "Oh, I love it." " I told Kara the color looks good." " It looks really good." " Oh, my god." "It's perfect." " It honestly did not hurt." " It looks really good." " And that's actually more painful than where you're getting it." "Oh, my gosh, you're golden." " Let me see." "That's perfect." " How many people have you texted?" " Um..." " Ten." "Every vote says yes." " Yes." " See?" "Kara, come on." " Ten out of ten?" " Let me just see what my" " You don't even have one person to say no." " No, I don't." "Except me." "Let me see what my brother says." ""Got to do it now if you want it." ""If you wait too long, you have to make another excuse to convince yourself."" " Yeah." " I don't want this to affect it." "Like the pressure." " It's not going to." "It's not going to." "I got it." "I have to, like, stretch while I'm tattooing you." " You do?" " Yeah." " I'm not ready now." " We're not going." "I'm just making sure we're good." "I'm gonna do a small one first." "Just a tiny, little one." "Okay?" " OKEY-." " Just relax." " ♪ Take a look around you It's always the same thing ♪" " Oh." " ♪ Oh yeah, glad to know ya Oh yeah, it's been nice ♪" "♪ There's a lot of aggravation when you're paying the price ♪" "♪ You can dance now ♪" "♪ Dance now ♪" " You're so close to being done." "It is almost over." " Oh, my god." "Ah." "Oh, my god, it's over." " It's over." "See?" " ♪ Oh yeah hallelujah Oh yeah here we go ♪" "♪ It's a dangerous operation when you're stealing the show ♪" "♪ You can dance now ♪" "♪ Dance now ♪" "♪ You can dance now ♪" "♪ Dance now ♪" "♪ You can dance now ♪" "♪ Dance now ♪" "♪ You can dance now ♪" "♪ Dance now ♪" "$1'" " Do you, Kara Lynn Joyce, take Casey Lee Williamson to be your husband?" " I do." " You may now kiss your bride." "Mr. And Mrs. Williamson." "Whoo!" " I don't think I can do it." "I have waited eight years." "I have gone without getting this dang tattoo." "And I just feel rushed right now." "I don't know where I would want it." "I don't know if I want it there forever." "And it's just too much pressure." "I'm not gonna peer pressure a tattoo." " Look" " No." " Yeah, you." "Streamline." "Family pool." "Okay'?" "So we're not getting just too excited." "Just don't race enough." "31.3, 38.06, 29.9, 26.62." " Who's to say I don't?" "How do you guys know that when I get in the water," "I don't just-pff." "Webbed hands, gills?" "What if-what if I could turn it on and off?" "Huh?" ""Oh!" "Oh!" "Hoo!" "Hoo!" " Yeah!" "Hoo!" "Hoo!" " Don't." "I mean it." "You're gonna be in big trouble." "Don't you give-don't." "Don't." "Get away from it." " It's a little Valentine dessert for tonight." " Aww." " Let's see what it tastes like." " No." "Get out of there."