Episode 565: Kara Winger – Four-Time Olympian in the Javelin on Coming Out of Retirement to Try to Make Her Fifth Olympic Team This Summer
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SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, I’m excited to welcome back Kara Winger, a four time Olympian in the javelin. This summer, she competed in her fifth Olympic trials, and it was quite the journey for her. Despite placing in the top three at the trials, she didn’t qualify for the Paris Olympics because she hadn’t yet met the Olympic standard. Kara shares her thought process behind deciding to aim for the standard during the trials rather than trying to qualify beforehand. She also shares about her decision to come out of retirement this summer to try to qualify for her fifth Olympics.
I’ve always enjoyed interviewing field athletes in track and field, as they often don’t get the spotlight they deserve, and Kara is one of my favorites. She’s at an exciting crossroads in her career, and I can’t wait for you to hear about all that she is looking forward to ahead.
Also, a fun tidbit—Kara had the honor of being a flag bearer for Team USA during the closing ceremonies at the Tokyo Olympics, which is just amazing. Make sure to check her out on Instagram at @Karathrowsjav for more of her journey!
What we talked about:
3:30- How this retirement is feeling different than the last one
17:00- Her experience at the Olympic Trials
20:45- How to handle heartbreak in sport
23:10- Her decision to not chase the standard and have to throw it at the trials
33:35- Coaching
39:30- The growth of javelin as a sport
42:40- Allowing yourself to change your mind
51:40- End of podcast questions
Show notes:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody. Welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hine. I'm your host Lindsay. Thanks so much |
| 0:24.4 | for being here today. Today on the show we have returning guests Kara Winger on |
| 0:29.1 | the podcast. She is a javelin thrower and competed in her fifth Olympic trials. |
| 0:35.0 | This summer, she's a four-time Olympian, a silver medalist at World Championships, |
| 0:42.0 | American record holder, Diamond League Champion, and she went into |
| 0:46.4 | this Olympic trials not having the Olympic standard. |
| 0:51.1 | So although she placed top three at the trials, she did not go on to compete at the Paris Olympics. |
| 0:57.0 | And she talks about the decision to not try to get that standard before the trials this summer. She really wanted to |
| 1:05.2 | throw the standard at the trials if she was going to go and compete in Paris. And so |
| 1:11.8 | in this episode you'll probably learn a little bit about |
| 1:14.5 | javelin which hopefully you know she was on the podcast back in June |
| 1:19.9 | 2023 so it's been over a year hopefully you learned a little bit about |
| 1:23.8 | javelin then and then hopefully you also learned a little bit about javelin |
| 1:28.2 | when we had Maggie Malone on the podcast this summer after she made the Olympic team. |
| 1:33.6 | Kara is a favorite of mine. |
| 1:35.8 | I love to interview field athletes within the sport of track and field because |
| 1:40.0 | I don't think the field athletes get the attention they deserve and so bringing them on to this |
| 1:45.6 | podcast that is mainly focused on running will hopefully introduce some new faces to you all. |
| 1:52.4 | Kara is entering a new phase to you all. |
| 1:52.5 | Kara is entering a new phase of her career |
| 1:55.2 | and she talks about that as well. |
| 1:57.6 | She's really one of my favorites to follow here. |
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