‘Tough Cookie’ Missy Franklin Learns From Disappointments

NEW YORK (AP) — It was all so simple throughout Missy Franklin’s young career: work hard, and fast times and big wins will follow.
Until they didn’t.
At the 2014 Pan Pacific championships, back spasms slowed down the teen phenom and she went home with just one individual medal, a bronze.
“At that point in my career, I had really never walked away, especially, from a meet on that scale disappointed,” Franklin said Tuesday. “That had never really happened to me.