This is my objective! Swimmer's life and Micheal Phelps quote

I recently read the autobiography Michael Phelps, given to me by my colleague. Reading the memories of my favorite athlete brought me a lot of fun, especially since it turned out that the best Olympian of all time has in some respects views that completely coincide with mine. This is about popularizing swimming. Phelps writes:

I did not mean to push myself to the candlestick, only the sport I was working on. How often, in the SportsCenter program, do you get an overview of the most important pools events, in addition to the best basketball games, home base runes and football touchdowns? How often do you see people discussing a break in the middle of the swimmer's day with the same talk they're talking about about medium bumps in the baseball? Being in Australia, I've seen that swimming is the most important part of the evening news, the main theme of radio broadcasts with listeners. Floats appear on billboards, in advertisements. Kids look at them and want to be like them. When children do not give up their parents, because they want something, they find that they want to jump to the pool. This is a great atmosphere for swimming and so should be with this sport in the United States.

I am convinced that Michael's incredible determination and his fantastic success certainly not only raised the level of American interest in swimming, but also contributed to the fact that more and more people began to practice this sport.

Meanwhile, for Poles swimming is still a rather niche sport and the success of our players is usually unknown. When in 2013 Radek Kawęcki won in Istanbul with Ryan Lochte alone, everyone in Poland was upset by losing Justyna Kowalczyk from Marit Bjørgen. Today, few still have heard about the last great results of the rising star of Polish swimming, Wojciech Wojdak. I am worried that such important successes remain unnoticed. Because they not only testify to the quite good sporty potential in us, but they can also be the best form of doping for every amateur swimmer. Michael Phelps captures it with its captivating simplicity:

I want to change this sport. I want people to talk and think about swimming so they can not wait to watch the competition. I want them to feel like diving and swimming. This is my objective.

Each of us carries deep hidden dreams. Such silent thoughts of goals that seem too bold, unwieldy, or even unrealistic to us. We therefore cherish them in the secret of heart, unable to believe that putting them into practice could become possible for us. Often, we do not even have the courage to say them aloud. And yet it is from this that a real adventure can begin in our lives.