Even if they win Gold, most athletes struggle to make ends meet. Being an Olympian would be great but there’s not much return on investment. She had given up a spot on the Olympic swim team to join the Navy SEALs once they opened it up to women. This had forced her to keep a decent (not great) GPA: she just wasn’t into academics unless she was interested in the subject material. JJ excelled in sports, particularly swimming.
JJ still remembered seeing her dad cry for the first time when they buried mom six months after she was diagnosed. The disease is progressive, meaning the symptoms get worse over time and there is no known cure. Voluntary muscles produce movements like chewing, walking, and talking. Henry had served in Vietnam where he met and fell in love with JJ’s mother, a Vietnamese nurse, who had died suddenly of ALS when JJ was 10.Īmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a group of rare neurological diseases that mainly involve the nerve cells (neurons) responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement. He was a former Marine captain who ran a successful plumbing business, smoked a cigar every evening, still kept a high and tight haircut, and loved blues music. JJ had grown up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and was raised by her tough-minded African-American father Henry. “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday,” hung on over the entrance to training in blue and gold letters.
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