Go to: Kristen Maloney did make the Olympics when she was 19. For her, the sacrifices were worth it, including four surgeries on her ankle, two rods placed in her leg and dead bone scraped out as well. "It's kind of like a dream come true to make the Olympics. It was a hard but good journey that I went through," she says She is not planning to try for the 2004 Olympics in order to focus on finishing college. "Because it's a lot of hard work, and, to be honest, I don't think my body could take it anymore."