Christian Taylor - USA Olympic Gold Medal Winning Sprinter
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🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Episode 512
Christian Taylor is a U.S. track and field athlete. He is the two-time reigning Olympic champion in the triple jump, winning gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is also the current world champion in the event, taking gold at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
At the age of 17, Taylor became the triple jump champion and long jump bronze medalist at the 2007 World Youth Championships, and then established himself as a top-level triple jumper at the University of Florida. He won back-to-back NCAA indoor titles and consecutive NCAA outdoor championships in 2010 and 2011.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Taylor about the 2020 Summer Olympics being postponed, what training looks like during a pandemic, and why it was important for him to walk the walk and not just talk the talk when it came to being a follower of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey guys, welcome to the program. |
| 0:21.5 | Today, I'm excited to bring to you a conversation with an Olympic gold medal-winning track and field athlete, Christian Taylor. |
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| 1:24.3 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Christian Taylor to the show. |
| 1:28.8 | As we mentioned, a USA gold medal winning track and field athlete. |
| 1:33.6 | He won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, |
| 1:38.4 | and then four years later won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. |
| 1:46.3 | He is the reigning Olympic champion and current world champion in the triple jump. |
| 1:52.2 | The Florida University Gator alum is now preparing for the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo because, of course, the quarantine pandemic delayed the 2020 |
| 2:05.3 | Summer Olympics and pushed them to 2021. And now we talk to Christian about that adjustment. |
| 2:11.2 | What's that like having prepared for a 2020 games that is now one year later? We also talk to Christian about his journey of faith, |
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