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[–] acrobaticpenguin23 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eric Heiden 5 gold medals at just 21 years old. Retired shortly afterward to dabble in cycling and then become a mundane orthepedic surgeon.

Also Jerry Mather's aka 'The Beaver' still milking his long ago celebrity decades later.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s still an impressive CV by any measure.

[–] acrobaticpenguin23 4 points 1 year ago

For Heiden? Absolutely! Way more then many athletes do in regular civilian life...