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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 62 – AMY WILLIAMS MBE – Half A Second Can Change Your Life – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 β€’ 767 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to Olympic gold medalist Amy Williams about why seconds matter, the art of being an Olympic athlete and β€œit’s not a tea tray”.
If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy
You can find Amy on Twitter here –
@AmyWilliamsMBE

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast. It's another special. Today, I've got a gold medal winner in my kitchen. It is indeed Amy Williams. Welcome to my kitchen. Amy. Thank you. How are you? How are you?

0:12.4

I'm very well. Thank you. Before we get into talking about Winter Olympics and your life, I'd like to give you a present. I give all my guests a present now. Do you drink? I love a red wine. So if that's what's hidden in there, I will have a little look.

0:25.1

Like Amy, I know nothing. I know nothing about red wine, but the guy in the shop who sorts me out

0:30.5

always gives me nice ones. Looks good to me. I can see through the red tissue paper. Thank you.

0:35.7

That's very kind of you. My guests always always because she's done really well for you there.

0:39.7

Well, actually one of my Christmas presents was wine tasting from my husband.

0:42.8

Oh, how is that?

0:43.6

He hates white wine.

0:44.7

We both drink red.

0:45.5

And I'm like, I'm determined there's a white wine out there that you're going to like.

0:48.9

So, yeah, a little tasting room.

0:50.4

We've booked it up for next month or whatever. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. When you were an athlete at your peak, did you ever drink?

0:56.9

No.

0:57.5

No.

0:58.5

Personally, I was just really strict on myself.

1:00.6

My diet, the fact of what was the point of beast in myself in the gym if then I filled

1:06.5

my body with alcohol or the wrong kind of foods and not recover 100% to be able to get up

1:12.1

and do the same thing the next day.

1:13.4

I just didn't see the point of it.

1:14.7

So no, I went obsessive from when I missed out on Turin Olympics 2006 for the next four years

1:20.2

to Vancouver.

1:21.1

In case anyone doesn't know, you won the golden skeleton, which is going down the, what

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