Improbable, funny, and heart-wrenching, Jeremiah F. Brown's journey from novice to Olympic rower in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you've got.

After nearly being put behind bars at age seventeen and becoming a father at nineteen, Brown managed to grow up into a responsible young adult. But with a promising banking career, marriage, mortgage, and more kids on the horizon, a new goal captured his imagination: what would it take to become an Olympian?

A lot, it turned out.

Guided by a polarizing coach, Brown and his teammates plumb the depths of physical and mental exertion in pursuit of a singular goal. The Four-Year Olympian is a story of courage, perseverance, and overcoming self-doubt, told from the perspective of an unlikely competitor who made it against the odds.