Chris Blevins on his experience at the Tokyo Olympics

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Chris Blevins returns to the show to talk about competing at this year's Olympics in Tokyo. It was a different experience than the one he anticipated in 2019, when he visited the city to test ride the course before he knew he would make the Olympic team. Since then, the event was delayed by a year and transformed by the pandemic. Chris talks about the bittersweet feelings of competing in his first Olympic Games without his family by his side. Complications with travel, isolation within the cy...

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0:00.0	We got a lot of, I think, jealousy because we were coming to dinner with different clothes
0:05.6	every night, like the girls would just coordinate their outfits.
0:09.1	And I just like, I couldn't wear all my clothes if I tried.
0:12.5	I'd have to like get up after my salad at dinner and come back with a new outfit, which
0:18.8	I did think about, but didn't want to be that kid.
0:22.9	It's showtime, everybody.
0:25.0	Showtime!
0:27.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:31.4	This is the world as it exists today.
0:36.2	Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while. Life moves pretty fast.
0:38.6	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:41.0	You could miss it.
0:44.2	Listen, we talk about practice.
0:47.4	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:49.0	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:51.3	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:55.2	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:00.0	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:04.1	Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.
1:06.5	Today we have a very special episode with a longtime friend of the podcast, Chris Blevins, who gives us an Olympic report.
1:13.5	Chris is fresh off the Tokyo Games.
1:16.1	And I thought it would be really interesting to hear some backgrounds straight from the horse's mouth.
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