Hunter Armstrong has always been a performer at heart. But outside the swimming pool – his grandest stage – he felt like he was drowning.
It took a lot of support and self-growth for the multi-talented Armstrong to pull himself back above water, seek the help he needed and cap it all off by qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games – his second Olympiad – in both the 100-meter back and as part of Team USA’s 100-meter freestyle relay team.
“I was little, but one of my buddies was in the car with me and like, ‘Hey, want to see a magic trick?’ ‘Um, sure,’” Armstrong said. “It was super cheesy, exactly what you’d expect from a 6 or 7-year-old. I really thought that was cool, and I got on YouTube, and I started learning some and I realized that it’s actually really fun. So I just stuck with it.”
All his interests fell dull in the wake of his struggles over the past year, however. The end of his relationship brought all the pain to a head. "I had a proposal planned out, I was already preordering the ring. Like, I was certain that I was going to marry this girl and I quickly watched it all crumble."
“I told him what was going on, and it was a day that I had missed morning practice,” Armstrong said. “I was going to go later in the day to make it up, and I never asked him to , but I said, ‘I’m going to go this time,’ just because I knew the pool would be open. So after his classes, he came back and did a practice with me so I didn’t have to be alone. That’s why the relay is so special, is because I get to share that with him.
It also doesn’t factor in a slip off the starting block in the semifinal round. Despite emerging from the water at least half a body length behind the rest of his competitors, Armstrong rallied to finish fast enough for a spot in the finals, where he took second place to earn his spot in the event in Paris.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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