Both stories are filled with wins and losses. Monumental triumphs, injuries, surgeries, aches, pains, laughter and tears
Both stories are filled with sacrifice, investment, sleep deprivation, credit card debt, National Governing Body woes, coaching changes, death of loved ones, break ups, new loves, and many other things.
The Olympics and the Olympic journey is a funny thing. What makes it so wild is that there is nothing else in your life, except for marriage, that you will pursue so blindly, with no understanding of what you’re chasing and make such a massive investment ever! Nothing!
And as you go through the journey the only thing that you really can take with you, the only thing that you have, the only thing that you can look back on, and the only thing which is TRULY valuable – are your experiences. The Experience is where the answers lie. The true value is not in the medal, ribbon or certificate. The true value is in what it took to get the medal, ribbon or certificate.
I, 2004 Olympian Rhadi Ferguson along with David Camarillo am going to share with you what it is that we learned as we traveled to the Korean Open in 1999 and fought some of the best players in the world in our attempt to make the 2000 Olympic Team.