10-Year-Old Girl Taking on World's Best Swimmers

For anyone whose greatest athletic accomplishment as a 10-year-old was not choking on an orange slice after your pee-wee soccer game, meet 10-year-old Alzain Tareq from Bahrain. She is doing slightly better than that, competing in the 2015 Swimming World Championships as the youngest swimmer ever to do so, USA Today reports. And while she finished last in her preliminary 50m butterfly heat yesterday, she's not letting that get her down, telling the AP she is having fun trying to learn from some of her swimming idols. And, four-time Olympic gold-medalist Missy Franklin is even trying to befriend her. Not too shabby, Alzain. (More World Swimming Championships stories.)