Missy Franklin returns to the University of California and explains her decision to leave campus to train for the Olympics at home in Colorado in the finale of her two-part GoPro video series published Monday.
“I left everything,” Franklin said. “I left my apartment. I left my boyfriend. I left my best friend. Everything is in Berkeley [Calif.].
“This decision was, without a doubt, the biggest sacrifice I’ve ever had to make in my life. … And know that that life was still going to go on without me there was like the most heart-wrenching feeling.