Jena, oh my god, we're talking to an olympian today.

Nancy Hogshead Macar.

I feel more accomplished just by association.

Right?

Nancy made the Olympics 15 when she was just 18 years old back in 1980. The US was boycotting the

games in Moscow that year, so she didn't have her chance

until four years later in Los Angeles at the 1984 Olympic Games.

Another look at the Olympic swimming stadium on the campus of the University of

Southern California.

There is the woman who is favored going into the women's 100 meter free-stop.

Twenty-year-old Nancy Hogshead of Jacksonville, Florida and Duke University.

This is a story of a woman who channeled her anger and pain

into an Olympic victory.

But before Nancy became a four-time Olympic medalist,

the most decorated swimmer at the games, I might

add, she almost quit swimming forever.

Let's go back to 1983.

You're a swimmer.

Wait, scratch that.

You were a swimmer. When you were a teen in high school, you were the best in the country, a national treasure.

But even though you're 20 years old now, you've already kind of retired.

But today, for the first time in almost a year,

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