Christian Olympian Opens Up To Lecrae About Olympics
The Deep End With Lecrae
Lecrae
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Lecrae sits down with 2x Olympic medalist Daniel Roberts to talk about his journey from a young athlete to a professional track and field star. He discusses the importance of faith, hard work, and perseverance in overcoming obstacles, including injuries and self-doubt.
They also explore the financial realities of being a professional track and field athlete and the challenges of balancing training with personal life.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, as you see, I have on my Olympic gear. Why? Well, because today we have an Olympian |
| 0:10.5 | in the building. When is the moment where everything started to turn around and you started |
| 0:17.7 | to say, oh, shoot, this might be my thing. Yeah, there was still a lot of, |
| 0:21.3 | like, identity issues I was having, like, coming from high school, being that guy in |
| 0:27.7 | track and field. I was just known for sports. My whole family was sports. And then having the |
| 0:31.3 | injury and all that's just stripped away. I'm still trying to figure out, like, who I even am, |
| 0:35.9 | if that makes sense, you know? What did you find out? What did you learn about yourself? I mean, I learned. There's a lot of things a lot of people don't know about the Olympics. Olympic Village. There's a lot of things people don't know. I was at the Olympics. A lot of people were disappointed in me because of the ceremony, and they were like, how can you support the |
| 0:55.1 | Olympics and all the backlash? And I don't know, did y'all feel any of that? |
| 0:59.2 | Oh, 100%. Really? |
| 1:00.4 | 100%. What shocked me the most in the whole experience was... |
| 1:06.0 | This is the Deep End with La Cui. |
| 1:22.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, as you see, I have on my Olympic gear. |
| 1:23.1 | Why? |
| 1:32.8 | Well, because today we have an Olympian in the building. I'm excited because I was at the Olympics in 2024 and a lot of people had issues and it was all kinds of controversy, but the believers was in the building. |
| 1:40.8 | And one of them is with us today. We have a two-time Olympic medalist here with us. Daniel Roberts in the building, man. You know, you're a hurdler. And, you know, a lot of people don't realize how hard that is. You know what I'm saying? But you not only, like, participate in a very difficult sport, you made it all the way to the Olympics. |
| 2:06.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 2:06.9 | And then not only did you get to the Olympics, you got a medal. |
| 2:11.0 | Got to be a medal, man. |
| 2:11.7 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 2:12.7 | So I just want to know off the top. |
| 2:14.4 | Before we even get into the backstory, like, how, like, what is that feeling? Oh, my gosh. Because you're trying this so hard to get to the Olympics. So, first of all, what's the feeling of getting to the Olympics? Honestly, I can, I'll probably agree with you. Like, the best, the best feeling was just making the team okay making the team because team USA is the |
| 2:35.1 | hardest team to make by far oh yeah all three of the americans in the one 10 hurdles were in the |
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