水泳選手: a "water swimming chosen hand".

水泳選手に成りたいです

選手 is used as skillled athlete a lot, it's weird translated literally

Senshu (選手) can also be used as an honorific when you address athletes, right?

lol i got it correct for "i want to be a swimming athlete". i was like man, we need a better word for that! ... oh, swimmer...

水泳選手になりたいです。 水泳選手literally means the athletes for swimming sports

Just noticed that たい is followed by です, and I can't stop wondering why it's not ます now that たい, which means "want to" I supposed, is a verb? Thx a lot if anyone can help me!