Amy Downs - OKC Bombing Survivor
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Amy Downs was one of the last survivors to be pulled from the rubble of the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in which a total of 168 people were killed including 18 of her 33 co-workers.
At the time of the bombing, Downs was a credit card loan officer who flunked out of college and weighed more than 350 pounds. In the last few years, Amy would not only lose 200 pounds, but she became a triathlete and even competed in an Ironman Triathlon.
Today on the podcast, Amy shares in detail, what it was like to be trapped and thinking her life was over after the OKC bombing and how God allowed her to not only survive, but thrive as a CEO, triathlete and author.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast, an incredible story with Amy Downs is presented by Compassion International. |
| 0:07.5 | Go to fill the stadium.com. Help us fill 70,000 empty seats representing a child in crisis during this pandemic. |
| 0:16.0 | Children in poverty. Compassion does such a good job. Check out fill the stadium.com to learn more on how you can |
| 0:22.3 | help release a child from poverty today. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast, the intersection of sports and faith. |
| 0:38.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:40.4 | And welcome everybody to the show. |
| 0:42.5 | I am Jason Romano, and this is Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:46.4 | Check out Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:48.0 | That's our website for all of our content here at the Ministry of Sports Spectrum, |
| 0:52.7 | podcasts, devotionals, articles, stories on the intersection |
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| 1:02.4 | And if you'd like to reach us, you can email me directly, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 1:06.6 | That's my email. |
| 1:07.9 | Jason at Sports Spectrum.com. |
| 1:11.0 | And we thank our partners and sponsors, Compassion International, for sponsoring today's show. |
| 1:16.2 | And this is one unbelievable story. |
| 1:19.8 | Amy Downs is our guest today. |
| 1:21.6 | She's the author of a book, Hope is a Verb. |
| 1:24.7 | She's also one of the last survivors to be pulled from the rubble of the April 19, |
| 1:30.1 | 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It's hard to believe that's 26 years ago, in which a total of 168 people |
| 1:38.8 | were killed, including 18 of Amy Downs 33 coworkers. |
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