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My Million Dollar Dream By: Marissa S.

I will never forget the moment I stepped on the ice. All eyes were on me. I was pressured to do perfect, all of my training would pay off that night. Being an Olympic Athlete is not easy, at least the way I experienced it. Coaches are always all over you to do it right, to not make one mistake. My coach on the other hand was different. She would always pick the hardest things to put in my routines and I was always sure that when I stepped on the ice that I would freak out and ruin my career. But the first day that I knew that I was going to the Olympics, I always knew that it would be an adventure of a lifetime. At every performance I did, I would here someone say, “See you at the Olympics ,” and, “Good luck going for the gold.” But, I really never knew what they meant by that. I have been to over one hundred competitions and nothing beats competing in the Olympics. When I first met my coach I never knew what I was in for. First, I started with a little warm up. Only, the little warm up was three hours long. I was sure that I would quit, but I was better then that, I would never quit after three hours. So, I kept on trying. My coach could tell that I was tired and not really loving what I was doing, so she talked to me and I never forgot what she said, “If you are going to be an Olympic athlete, then you will face tons of ups and downs. But you're in training to compete against Olympic gold medallists, you have to train hard to do well.” After she told me that, that really changed my train of thought for the Olympics and having three hours of just a little warm up. After my training for the day was done, I stayed two hours later then I should have. I really wanted to impress everyone who was important to me and who has high expectations for me. The next day, I was more sore then a broken ankle. The last thing I wanted to do was repeat the day before but I kept thinking about my coaches words, and I did my training and I made it through the day. I had really respected my coach for what she had said to me. And, she respected me for what I did. Believe it or not, I did the same thing for three years and I took home silver from the Olympics. Everyone now respected me. I traveled around the world and I had at least one skating competition a week and maybe more. I made appearances at many cool places and I signed so many autographs. I always looked up to people but now everyone looked up to me. Four years later, I got gold, gold! I never thought I would live everyone's dream to be a gold medallist. Being an Olympic athlete is very hard work and still I want to quit, but, if you don't believe in yourself then what else can do? I had my first coach for about seven years, but then I started training with eight coaches. All there to make me better! Even though I don't train with her anymore, she is always at all of my performances and I see her all the time. She was like my sister. Sure, I wasn't to fond of her at first, but then I realized that she was helping me train for the Olympics. I had never been so upset when she retired. She retired right after the Olympics when I brought home the gold and I was really scared and upset. She had helped me my whole career and for someone else with a totally different training style then my coach, what would I do? But, of course I wouldn't quit. I'm Marissa Staiert, Olympic gold medalist.