9. Behind the Scenes at the Olympics
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Des and Kara take you behind the scenes at the Olympics. Both Des and Kara have raced there twice. They share what it was like achieving their lifelong dreams and then living it out under all of the pressure of the Games. Spoiler alert: it's not all rainbows and unicorns.
You will hear about the "Big O" camp, pictures with the President, the dining hall at the Olympic village, the infamous condom bowl, swapping podium gear with a medalist, the post-Games letdown, and so much more. Go back to Beijing, London, and Rio with Des and Kara!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello podcast listeners. This is another episode of Nobody Asked Us with Des and Cara Desland |
| 0:17.5 | in here and I'm joined by my co-host Cara Goucher. How's it going Cara? Good Des. How are |
| 0:22.6 | you? Great intro per use. Thank you. I read my note card so I felt pretty good about |
| 0:29.0 | it. What's new? I feel like we should do a brief catching up before I tell you what theme |
| 0:35.6 | for the week is. What's new? I don't know. I just I can't imagine. I am in bookland and that's |
| 0:43.4 | what I was about to say. I can't imagine where you are because I feel very stressed not in a bad |
| 0:48.0 | way but just so many interviews and things getting ready for the book launch and you're also doing |
| 0:53.1 | that but you're also training for marathon. So I don't know how you're doing all of that. How |
| 0:58.9 | are you doing all that? I'm just not thinking about it. I think that's you know the best thing to do |
| 1:05.8 | just day by day. You have a lot of appearances before the marathon. How are you feeling about that? |
| 1:12.5 | That's going to be hard but I think it's actually it's great when you have an appearance that's |
| 1:17.4 | just one event and it's like maybe two hours back because I'll have all day to I imagine go run |
| 1:24.9 | and then relax and then just be on for a couple hours. So I think it'll be manageable but the |
| 1:29.5 | travel will be tough but it's all pretty pretty close. So we're pretty strategic about it. |
| 1:36.6 | Cool. I feel like you bothered that question. I was like what's going on with you? What is going on |
| 1:42.2 | with me? I saw a new neurological PT this week that I'm really excited about and yeah basically |
| 1:53.4 | it was good. So with this dystonia it's like your brain wires get crossed. So I do a lot of |
| 1:59.0 | strength training and stuff but unless you you know her theory is unless you attack the brain and do |
| 2:05.4 | these like simple exercises that seem crazy like an app where it shows you a left foot and then |
| 2:10.1 | a right foot and you have to say if it's left or right really quickly. She feels like I could help |
| 2:16.0 | rewire my brain a little bit. So I don't know I've only been once and I've only been doing my |
| 2:19.5 | exercises for a day but I'm excited about where it might take me. Yeah and I have a really |
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