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Throughout the history of the Olympic Games, there’s been quite a bit of extracurricular activity going on among the Olympic athletes – including swimmers – at the Olympic Games.
This doesn’t have to continue. There’s no rule I’m aware of stipulating this is how things always have to be. The world can change and often does.
And so for the Paris Olympics, you all should earnestly consider shifting your mindsets, expectations, and, most importantly, behaviors.
Embrace a mindset of abstinence. Not from eating food and drinking fluids; but from other things.
You may not realize this yet because you’re young but abstinence makes you stronger. Beyond your Olympics experience you’ll enter real life, which will get harder, and you’ll call upon your abstinence muscle time and time again to make it through, to get by, to get to the other side.
This isn’t as big of an ask as you may think. Just defer gratification. No more; no less. That’s all. Make this your credo, your mantra, your North Star, your Olympic Village mission.
Don’t misconstrue this, though. We want you to have fun. We encourage you to gather in the common areas of the Village to watch the Olympic diving events with the showers and toweling off in the tubs and all, but anything more than that you and we don’t need.
You’ve got this. You athletes are more disciplined than the rest of us. Show us you can excel at abstinence like you do as athletes. Be examples.
De-clutter your minds. Focus on your events. Visualize your races. And stop there. No need to spend mental energy visualizing anything else. Turn off your imaginations.
Look, we know you’re young and in peak physical condition. That’s why we want to see you perform at your best in your events and anything that could take away from that isn’t what’s best for the common good of mankind. Perform at your peaks in athletic competition. There alone.
You won’t have to pursue abstinence without a social support system. You’ll get help doing this. Upon your arrival at the Olympic Village, Parisian officials will be giving every one of you athletes a “Do Not Disturb” door sign.
Hang that on your door.
And don’t let anyone in.
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