Episode 36: Kikkan Randall — Olympic Gold Medal Winning Nordic Skier

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Winning an Olympic Gold Medal in her final Olympics might be the most interesting thing about Kikkan Randall. But, after listening to this conversation, you'll hear why it also might not be. Kikkan is an incredibly insightful, thoughtful, well spoken, ambassador to xc-skiing as much as she is an ambassador to motherhood amid an Olympic career. She's a cancer survivor, wife, friend, and at least seventeen hundred other descriptors you'll pick up on today's pod; suffice it to say that Kikkan is a rockstar. Please enjoy this conversation that touches on the highlights, the low moments, the comebacks from injury, the importance and perspective of family, her ability to process and see this whole sport and life as an interesting process. Also, please spend five minutes and check out How the Race Was Won: https://vimeo.com/257323813 And when you're done there, visit her It's Going to be Okay socks store: https://shop.kikkan.com/collections/socks And all things Kikkan Randall, www.kikkan.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of King of the Ride podcast.
0:07.9	I'm your host.
0:09.0	I'm Ted King.
0:10.2	And we have a stellar show in store for you today.
0:13.7	Our guest, Keekin Randall, Olympian, five-time Olympian, Olympic gold medalist in her final Olympics, Olympian, no less.
0:26.0	Kikin is a wife, a mother, a cancer survivor, a cancer survivor, thriver, I will add.
0:31.3	Kikin is a rock star. She's a living legend by my account, having basically laid the foundation
0:36.6	for the U.S.
0:38.3	women's Nordic ski team.
0:39.7	That is now the powerhouse program that it is today.
0:44.1	Keegan was kind enough to make some time earlier this spring during our time at the
0:49.2	Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Next Step program.
0:52.9	You may remember that program from our conversation earlier on
0:56.3	this season with Dan from Naam Dan Craven. This program, you may remember, helps point us as
1:03.7	athletes and military personnel, possible direction of business in the next step of our lives, with a sweeping and extensive
1:13.1	level of exposure in the field. Our conversation is going to talk a little bit about the next step
1:18.5	program, which I think you find interesting. Our conversation will largely cover the highlights of
1:24.1	such an illustrious career as Keegan has had. There are, of course, low lights.
1:30.0	The comebacks from injury.
1:31.7	We're also going to talk about what it's like to be a mother
1:33.6	to become a mother amid an athletic career.
1:37.6	This conversation helps paint the picture of the total bad assery that is Keekin.
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