Swimmers tell stories of seeing competitors berating themselves, vomiting, praying, laughing, joking, meditating and staring off into space. Whatever it takes for an athlete to jolt themselves into performance mode
There’s the guy who stands in the corner screaming at the wall, the one who paces back and forth muttering, and the woman with the death glare who speaks to no one.swim meet, the area known as the ready room – a holding pen for the athletes before they venture out onto the pool deck – is where, in those final minutes before a race, things can get a little weird.
“By the time I go in the ready room I’m really just focused,” McIntosh said. “I’ll be thinking about strategy and things like that. Most of the time I’m just trying to stay calm and collected, but at the same time getting myself pumped up.” “I love being around someone like a Mary-Sophie where she’s so goofy and like, let’s talk, and let’s listen to music, and let’s dance and joke around.”
“But I was very focused; I had music, I had my favourite towel, I had a whole ritual that I would go through.” Michael Phelps was known for sitting silently with a hood up and headphones on, staring straight ahead. In 2016, he was famously caught on camera wearing a prerace scowl that went viral. It is still known eight years later as Phelps Face.
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