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You're listening to the Spartan Combat Series on the Spartan Up podcast. Our guest today is

Olympician Andy Rove.

Me taking second at the World Team Trials and losing and having to overcome that concussion and the self-doubt and the crying.

You know, it's like I look back and I don't think if I would have had those hard times that I don't know if I would have made the Olympic team.

Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen it's episode two of the Spartan Combat Series

here on the Spartan Up podcast. We're still your grit and resiliency partner, but on this series

we talk to individuals who have been battle tested in the most rigorous of environments, hand-to-hand combat.

So you're going to hear from Olympic wrestlers, world champion fighters,

Jiu-Jitsu practitioners, all of which are here to help you get off the couch and get your life going again.

My guest today is 2008 Olympic wrestler Andy Rovat, and we talk about a 14-month period of 80's life from the spring of 2007 through the summer of 2008

where Andy went through an emotional roller coaster, I guess is an easy way to put it.

Andy took second in the 2007 World Team Trials, failing to make the World Team,

which was a big setback for him, and he went through some really trying times emotionally over the

summer of 2007 and leading up to the Olympic trials in 2008. I'm not going to

like folks this one gets emotional.

But I just think it shows that everyone overcomes doubt in their life, even Olympians.

And by pushing through that doubt and pushing through obstacles, you become a different person throughout the process.

And I hope you take that away from this episode.

Thank you so much for tuning in.

Again, this is Ryan Warner. I'm your host.

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