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[quote=Anonymous]I have no data to back this up (only anecdotal experience) but it seems more common for younger AAA/AAAA swimmers to burn out or plateau and not become elite senior swimmers than it does for B/BB swimmers to become elite. People need to be realistic. If your 10 year old has B/BB times they are probably going to stay at the BB/A level at best, maybe AA if they really work at it, unless they literally just started swimming. There’s a natural level of talent that’s either there or it’s not. I was a AAA swimmer by my second year of winter swim. It still took hard work to get to the elite level. I don’t see this happening for my own kids even if they went “all in” on swimming and worked very hard. They don’t have the natural talent that I had, and that’s ok. [/quote]
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