Apolo Ohno, the USA’s most decorated winter Olympian of all time, is finding life after sport so thrilling, so complex, so challenging, so rewarding, that he is writing a book about it. Here, he looks back on his startling short track speed skating career and outlines how he is striving to make his time off the ice just as successful – both for him and for others.
The USA’s Apolo Ohno has packed an awful lot into his 37 years. Not content with simply turning his precocious talent into eight Olympic medals, the former short track speed skater has become a successful entrepreneur, a mainstream TV star – winning a season on primetime TV show Dancing with the Stars and hosting a network game show – and a global brand.
But despite the packed nature of his schedule since he hung up his skates following the Olympic Games Vancouver 2010, Ohno openly admits that he has not found the transition from professional athlete to civilian particularly easy…View more at Olympics.com.
