If you compete at the Olympics, win a gold medal, and then give up on the sport entirely, you're not likely to outlive a consistently athletic individual.
America was made strong and diverse because here people could live free from the fears that made us their daily lives in whatever land they called the old country.
It had evidently been lying in the mud for some time, and its owner was completely lost in the stream of passing people who crowded and jostled each other all day long.