This might be the best Paris 2024 story: Zeng Zhiying made her Olympics debut at 58-years old.
Born in China, she is now representing Chile in table tennis because of an incredible journey.
At age 18, she expected to go to the Olympics for her birth country, China, as one of the best players in the world.
But then table tennis changed out the two-sided paddles, and her game was thrown off.
She never made the team and became incredibly frustrated with the sport. She retired from the game as a player at age 20. Shortly after, she moved to Chile and coached various table tennis teams.
Then, in 2000, she decided to get a “real job” and step away from the game. For 20 years, she didn’t play. Then, in COVID, she bought a table and started playing again.
She made it a goal to make the 2024 Olympics representing Chile. And, at age 58, she did it!
The human brain is crazy powerful, and it can prevent us from continuing something we love or help us persevere through times when the odds are heavily stacked against us.
What an inspiration to follow your dreams.
Advice to scale your business:
Keep it simple
It's easier to do fewer things but do them very well
This is the beauty of franchising. It's boring but can make you a lot of money.
Easily my favorite home run of the year so far. Will Brennan tragically killed a bird yesterday with a batted ball. Just 24 hours later, he homers and pays homage to a fallen hero. Tears.
It’s difficult to overstate the impact of a shift of Contreras to a primary OF/DH role, if that’s where the Cardinals land. Prospects will be blocked. Big dollars will be tied up. Lineup flexibility will be sacrificed.
Willson Contreras will DH and play the OF. St. Louis already has a positional logjam in the OF, and that's without counting Tyler O'Neill (injury) and Jordan Walker (optioned).
Now they'll have a logjam at DH, which will spill over to the middle infield as well.