@halfelfhalfreindeer to Ask LemmyEnglish • 2 years agoWho do you know that peaked way too early in life? What was their peak?message-square14arrow-up127arrow-down13
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareWho do you know that peaked way too early in life? What was their peak?@halfelfhalfreindeer to Ask LemmyEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square14
minus-square@acrobaticpenguin23linkEnglish11•edit-22 years agoEric Heiden 5 gold medals at just 21 years old. Retired shortly afterward to dabble in cycling and then become a mundane orthepedic surgeon. Also Jerry Mather’s aka ‘The Beaver’ still milking his long ago celebrity decades later.
minus-square@acrobaticpenguin23linkEnglish4•2 years agoFor Heiden? Absolutely! Way more then many athletes do in regular civilian life…
Eric Heiden 5 gold medals at just 21 years old. Retired shortly afterward to dabble in cycling and then become a mundane orthepedic surgeon.
Also Jerry Mather’s aka ‘The Beaver’ still milking his long ago celebrity decades later.
That’s still an impressive CV by any measure.
For Heiden? Absolutely! Way more then many athletes do in regular civilian life…