Planning Ahead Doesn’t Always Work
It’s super unfair because being an athlete should be all about planning. You train hard, try to be aware of every possible scenario, and develop certain tricks and tactics to beat your opponents. But in sports and life, not all plans turn out the way we imagined.
In this perfectly-timed sports photo, the Polish pole vaulting athlete Kamila Przybyla is inadvertently representing every single major athlete that saw a plan fail. You can see it in her face: it’s like the floor was suddenly removed from beneath her feet, and she’s falling into the endless pit of a plan-gone-awry.