E71 - Olympics Special #1 - Ian Thorpe
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🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ian Thorpe won five Olympic gold medals, the greatest total of any Australian. As his first Olympics approached, in Sydney, he had broken 10 world records - four of them in four days at the 1999 Pan Pacific titles. On the first night of Sydney 2000 he won the 400m freestyle, breaking his own word record, then combined with his team to inflict the United States’ first defeat ever in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay, setting another world record.
At Athens 2004, Ian won the 200m freestyle - billed as “the race of the century” - against Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband and American Michael Phelps.
In April 2018, Ian was awarded an Order of Merit by the Australian Olympic Committee.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to the now award winning high performance podcast. Can I just say |
| 0:07.3 | thanks very much to the British podcast awards for giving us a silver medal in the awards |
| 0:12.5 | over the weekend. We were truly touched, you know, we've only been going for about 18 |
| 0:16.9 | months and then we're some amazing, amazing podcasts up for awards. So for us to win a silver |
| 0:22.0 | medal is incredible, but also thanks to you as well because as you may have heard, we |
| 0:26.6 | asked you to vote for the listeners choice award. Now just think how many potential podcasts |
| 0:31.4 | people could vote for and the high performance podcast finished on the shortlist in the |
| 0:36.6 | top 20 in terms of the number of votes that you gave us. So can I just say thanks to the |
| 0:42.0 | British podcast awards, thanks to you and we're going to repay you by keeping these episodes |
| 0:48.6 | and keeping the conversation going. Welcome to the very first Olympics special from the |
| 0:54.8 | High Performance Podcast. One of the things that I had to carry for myself was the expectation, |
| 1:08.0 | but also knowing I'd been able to do this in training gave me the reassurance that I |
| 1:15.3 | needed to stand up behind a box and actually own an arena, which is what I did. To the |
| 1:23.0 | extent that the moment that it was announced that, you know, this is this particular event, |
| 1:30.1 | I walked out of the Martening area. I actually, you know, shoulders went back. I stood up |
| 1:35.9 | straight up. I walked out and I actually was this is mine. |
| 1:41.0 | Yes, so get ready to hear from one of the most fascinating Olympians that I've ever met. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm so pleased we can bring you this episode. Before we get going, as you know by now Lotus |
| 1:51.7 | Cars are at the center of the High Performance Podcast. Of course, they've won in Formula |
| 1:55.9 | One. They've won in Indy 500. They've won Lomol 24 hours, World Rally Championships, |
| 2:01.7 | but they've also won Olympic gold. Because back in 1992, they created the Lotus Type 108 |
| 2:08.0 | and of course it took Chris Bourbon to Olympic gold. All those years ago, man, I can't, 1992 |
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