OMAHA — Though she may, on the surface, appear to be the same bubbly girl who won over a nation four years ago, Missy Franklin has changed.
It’d be hard not to, considering all that's happened: She’s gone to college, turned pro and also struggled with a significant injury (her back) for the first time in her illustrious career. She’s grown from a teenager who danced to Justin Bieber into a woman with perspective.
“I always had this idea in my head of the person that I wanted to be when I was going through challenges and, to be blatantly honest, when I was 17 I had never been through any (real) challenges,” Franklin said here before U.