Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Most things we do are best done when we're certain ages, but that doesn't mean we can't do them in later years. Quarterbacks in the National Football League tend to be in their mid-20s and in their 30s, yet the recently-retiired Tom Brady played his position at a high level until he was 45. Boxer George Foreman came out of retirement at 50 for a second boxing career, and along the way he won one of the many championship the sport had.
We also see this in the action genre of movies. Tom Cruise keeps doing his own stunts at 61, an age where it's expected for professional stuntmen to do their work. Keanu Reeves is fighting more at 59 for the John Wick movies than he was in his late 30s as Neo in The Matrix trilogy. In the 2006 movie Rocky Balboa, the title character himself came out of a long retirement to fight an exhibition bout against current heavyweight champion Mason "The Line" Dixon; although Dixon won the exhibition, he learned more about boxing from Rocky Balboa than he had in all his previous fights combined.
As long as we continue doing what we're supposed to do, we can continue for a long time after the average person calls it quits. Eventually we all stop, but it should be because we no longer have the abilities to continue, not because we reach some arbitrary limit based on a number.
Some (More) Information about Jackie Joyner-Kersee
On 1986-July-7, at the inaugural Goodwill Games in Moscow, Jackie Joyner-Kersee scored 7,148 points in the heptathlon. In doing so, she not only beat the previous world record of 6,946 points by 202 points, she also became the first female heptathlete to reach 7,000 points.
When she won the Gold Medal in the heptathlon at the 1988 Seoul Summer games, Jackie Joyner-Kersee had set the world record for the 4th time.
When she won the Gold Medal in the heptathlon at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games, she became the first female heptathlete to win consecutive Olympic Gold Medals.
Due to an injured hamstring, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was forced to withdraw from the heptathlon at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games. Even with this serious injury, she was able to capture the Bronze Medal in the long jump.
Although she wanted to compete in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, Joyner-Kersee failed to qualify for the Olympic team at the US Olympic Trials. In 2001 she retired from competition.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee competed in single events as well, especially the long jump. In 1987 she tied the world record with a long jump of 14 feet, 5.5 inches (7.45 meters). In 1988 she won the gold medal in long jump, and in 1992 she won a bronze medal in long jump.
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