What it's like to be an Olympic athlete
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With the London games right around the corner, we caught up with Ryan Bailey, member of the U.S. Men's National Team for water polo, training now for his fourth and final Olympics. He told us about training for the Olympics, playing professionally in Moscow and Serbia, and OD'ing on coffee in the mergers and acquisitions department.

Q: Tell me about the decision to go from being a college athlete to being a professional. What a risk.
A:
I've been on the national team for 16 years. This will be my fourth Olympics. It was my dream since I was a kid to make the Olympic team, so everything I did from the time I was 13 or 14 years old-it was a dream and it was out there. The 2000 Olympics was my goal. It was really weird because after I finally made the 2000 team, I had a terrible experience because I was so nervous. I'd been building it up, my whole life was in it. When I got home it was like, OK, what do I do now? It kind of became about refocusing and setting new goals. Instead of just going to the Olympics it was win an Olympic medal.


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