An Olympic Runner’s Fight to Stop Her Stalker

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🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Any runner would say the best advice in a race is to look forward. But what if you had to keep looking over your shoulder? Olympic runner Emily Infeld’s career as an elite athlete slowed down when a stalker invaded her life. ESPN reporter Paula Lavigne shares her investigation of the three years Infeld has lived in fear and fought for justice and peace, while facing many systemic failures along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So there's a day in June 2020 where she is walking in downtown Portland with her fiance,
0:17.2	and she gets a phone call.
0:21.9	This is from a security team member that she got connected with through Nike.
0:29.5	The person says, we have some troubling news.
0:34.6	Your stalker has rented a place two miles away from your house.
0:42.3	And if that wasn't bad enough, she's also told that he has posted on LinkedIn that he was coming to Portland specifically to kill you.
1:01.0	Yeah. Portland specifically to kill you. To be a professional long distance runner often means training for hours a day alone, out on trails or city streets.
1:10.0	So what happens when that very activity no longer feels safe?
1:16.8	Today, the story of an Olympian who faced years of online threats that seeped into real life,
1:23.8	all coming from a man she's never met.
1:29.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, September 21st. This is ESPN Daily.
1:41.8	Paula Levine, thank you for joining us to talk about a story that I really can't get out of my head.
1:48.2	Appreciate the opportunity.
1:49.7	Paula Levine is an investigative reporter for ESPN.
1:52.8	And with our colleague Aish Kumar, she reported on runner Emily Enfeld and a stalker who jeopardized Emily's athletic career.
2:01.3	So Emily Enfield is a former Olympic runner.
2:04.1	She placed 11th in the 10,000 meter at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
2:09.1	She won a bronze medal in the same event at the 2015 World Championship.
2:13.5	She claimed the NCAA title in the 3,000 meter while at Georgetown, where she went to college.
2:18.9	She went to high school in Ohio, where she still holds the record for the girl's 1,600 meter.
2:24.1	Here are the final meters running as a team, and now Cherriott takes command again.
2:29.2	Chariot will win it. Berka's second.
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