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我深吸一口气,登上了起跳台。这是我职业生涯的一场重要比赛。那是1996年亚特兰大奥运会400米个人混合泳的决赛现场。与我同台的是世界上顶级的7位泳坛高手,其中一位是我的强劲对手埃里克。我又深吸了一口气,感觉氧气进入非常缓慢,好像我正在用一根麦秆吸气。我患有严重的哮喘病,还有罕见的气管狭窄症。医生跟我说,这种情况会使我的肺只能发挥10%的功能,意味着我仅能呼吸到对手1/10的氧气。我在弗吉尼亚长大,5岁开始就一直梦想着这场比赛。而当初第一次
I took a deep breath and boarded the platform. This is an important game of my career. That was the final of the 400m individual medley at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. On the same stage as I was the top seven swimmers in the world, one of whom was my strong rival, Eric. I took another deep breath and felt the oxygen go very slowly, as if I was breathing in with a straw. I suffer from severe asthma and have rare tracheal stenosis. The doctor told me that this situation will make my lungs only play 10% of the function, which means that I can only breathe the opponent 1/10 of oxygen. I grew up in Virginia and started dreaming about it at age five. The first time