The Olympics!

When it comes to competition, Olympics is as big as it gets. All of the best athletes from around the world come to one place and compete to see who is the best. Canada, U.S., Germany, France and many, many more. The Olympics consist of the summer games and winter games. The summer games consist of sports like basketball, swimming, track and field and more. The winter games consist of sports such as skiing, snowboarding, luge, curling, speed skating and more. But what makes these athletes? People have been asking this question forever and I will try to give you my opinion on what I personally think makes an athlete.

Firstly, I think Olympic level athletes have to be born with some sort of talent in a sport. Also, it takes a lot of dedication. Lots of people dream of going to the Olympics in a sport when they are little, but very few of them stick with their dream. You always here Olympians saying how they dreamed about being there since they were young. They stuck with their dream and dedicated their life to accomplishing it, and it eventually came true. I think this is the main reason that they make it to the Olympics.

Another thing that I think makes an olympian is confidence. Whenever an olympic athlete is interviewed they always say how prepared and confident they are. They are not afraid of failure and they put it all out there. Also, if they do poorly in an olympics, they dedicate their next 4 years to becoming better then they were before. As they say, the olympics is not mainly for competition, but for improvement.

I think that these are the two main things that make an olympian. I also think that an olympian can be made at any age, because all it takes is dedication and hard work. 

Brendan