It takes a special brand of athlete to make an Olympic team and compete for a medal.
Nearly all the individual sports require hours and hours of practice, and most of that time is spent working on their particular discipline by themselves.
As much time as pursuing a position on an Olympic team takes, many of the participants have had jobs and off-the-field responsibilities.
In this piece, we look at five Olympic participants—some of them famous, some of them not—and shed some light on what they do when they are not competing in their chosen sports.