When Kyle Snyder was asked whether he could win an Olympic gold medal again in 2020, you could almost see his mind wrestling with the question.
He got a firm grip on it — “I think I can, yeah” — and then slowly jockeyed for position: “I plan to do it, but we’ll just have to see what happens when we get there.” He finally took the question down and pinned it.
“I think I can do it in 2020 and 2024,” he said. “I want to try to wrestle in five Olympic Games. I’ll be 36 in 16 years.