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I don't swim! That's like athletic.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

The title 'black swimmer' makes it seem like I am not supposed to be able to win a gold medal, I am not supposed to be able to break the Olympic record, and that is not true, as I work as hard as anybody else, and I love the sport, and I want to win, just like everybody else.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.