My favorite athlete 😊

Hello fellows, I hope you’re doing well! As I said in the previous post, I will be posting about my journey in my grammar course, (prepositional phrase) so, today, I would like to share and to talk about one athlete I admire so much and sports that we have here in Costa Rica. To start (infinitive phrase) the story, it’s important to know that the official sport (noun phrase) in my country it has been (verb phrase) the soccer since the last century, and our soccer it’s known worldwide, even though we have excellent runners, baseball players, basketball players among others.. Fortunately, Costa Rica has very talented athletes not only in soccer, but also in swimming like Claudia Poll. Swimming is not a popular sport in Costa Rica, which is a shame, because it’s really beneficial for your health. Anyways, she was the most successful swimmer in the nineties and also she was a blond girl with short hair (adverbial phrase) I said this because of the stereotypes people have about blond girls. I have read about her before on internet, magazines and newspapers, and what a surprise was for me, to realize what a discipline girl she was in that time. When having  successful was specific for men and not for women, because of the chauvinism society we used to have. She worked in a very hard way, (Adverb phrase) striving and training very early in the morning every single day through years in order to have more strength in her arms, legs, lungs and body in general. I consider that she had to sacrifice many things, and maybe she argued whether to keep on working or to give up, because the training of a swimmer it’s really tired. On my personal opinion, I am 100% sure that the more you sacrifice the more you win. She cherishes (because I read it on an article some years ago) that both sacrificing and working really hard it’s the key for success, like this idiom: no pain, no gain. I really admire her and her career during all of these years, and not only for that but also because she put the name of Costa Rica very high. Having always a good mood in the life (gerund phrase), it's the best way to put your country really higher as she did.