ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to address learning, career transition and identity reconstruction in sport from a cultural perspective of learning. It presents the athlete's sporting career, and discuss her learning during and after her time in sport. It also presents the becoming of a two-time Olympian. We explore how the CoP shaped her and how this relates to her life after sport. Amelia, the synchronised swimmer presented in this paper, was recruited as part of a larger case study of eight former Olympic athletes. Despite the perhaps counter-productive learning Amelia made in terms of discipline, self-control and submission, the perspective, independence and ingenuity she adopted through sport gave her confidence and a trust in life that served her after she retired from sport. In this paper, we have demonstrated the learning of one Olympic athlete and have pointed out how the person she became through sport related to her life after retirement.
