Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.