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__**The Olympian and I**__ By: Casey O.

Although many kids sit at home and watch the Olympic athletes on television and dream that that will be them one day and how they'll be the next big thing in sports. They really don't realize how simple it can be, and how much they have in common with the athlete.

If you __**work hard**__ good things will happen for you. The Olympic athlete you watch on TV didn't just get their by wishing for it they had to work hard. For four years the athletes train for those two weeks that they can so off their talent to the world. Until it finally comes and their speechless. What you really don't realize is you do the same thing everyday. When your at school learning, when your on the baseball field giving it 110 percent, Even when your at home reading to your little brother or sister your always training. The only difference is the Olympic athletes train for four years. But you train your whole life for bigger things!

If you __**follow your dreams**__ you can accomplish anything! Think about it. Do you think the Olympic athletes you see on TV wanted to be an Olympian four years before the Olympics of course not they followed their dreams. They wanted to be Olympic athletes when they were kids watching the Olympic on TV and kept that dream for years. Which is exactly what you should do. Find something your good at and dream of what you can accomplish by following that dream. Do you want to be a professional football player, or the president what ever it may be its possible! Follow your dreams and you will succeed.

__**NEVER**__   let somebody tell you your not good enough. If you imagine what Olympic athletes were been told when they were little you would be amazed. People probably told them there not good enough or they'll never accomplish something, but look at the now. Doing what they love in front of billions of people! They never let anyone put them down. Which is something you have to get set in your mind. Friends may always tell you your awful at something whether they kidding or dead serious. But do you ever listen to them or do you get up and thrive off of an fail. That's something everyone has in common with an Olympic athlete!

In conclusion, even though it may seem that you and an Olympic athlete are two completely different people you have way more in common then you think. You have gone through good and bad times. You both will succeed in a higher range one day and your both people and are never perfect!