The 29-year-old former Cal star enters his third Olympics looking to repeat his gold-medal performance of eight years ago
Naivete seemed to work in Ryan Murphy’s favor in 2016, but he’s hoping familiarity with the Olympic swimming procedure outweighs the increased pressure eight years later.
That approach served Murphy well, as he captured three gold medals in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro – in the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke events as well as the 4x100 medley relay.Five years later, in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were held in 2021, Murphy could not quite match his 2016 success – getting a gold medal in the medley relay, a silver medal in the 200m backstroke and a bronze in the 100m backstroke.
You have to love the phrase “the consequences of performance,” an athlete’s euphemism for the fear of failure or the weight of expectations or the magnitude of the event or any number of other mental demons elite veteran swimmers must conquer.
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