Gold Medalist & Washed Suburban Dad Tom Dolan

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve are joined by Olympic gold medalist and fellow washed swim dad Tom Dolan. The guys discuss Tom’s grounded approach with his kids’ competitive swimming, what drove him as a swimmer, how watching his kids swim beats competing in the Olympics, what parents forget about youth athletics, how many dads he’s seen on the pool deck in a full suit and monitoring snack bar consumption. [5:53] Tom’s grounded approach, swimming is unrelenting [20:31] Tom’s biggest message to kids and parents at the pool [32:28] What parents forget about youth athletics [41:11] Having perspective as a parent and a young athlete Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, this is a special 4th of July week version of the SBPOT.
0:11.1	Stanford Steve is alongside and what's 4th of July?
0:14.3	4th is like Monday?
0:15.3	Tuesday.
0:16.3	Tuesday.
0:17.3	We can put this out on Monday morning.
0:19.3	Alright, we'll put this out on Monday morning.
0:21.0	So there you go.
0:22.2	So it's a special 4th of July week podcast, we'll put it out on Monday.
0:25.9	We're taping it in advance.
0:28.8	So it's a conversation with a guy that I met a couple of years ago and talked about
0:34.5	here on the podcast.
0:35.5	His name's Tom Dolan.
0:37.0	He was a gold medal swimmer for the United States.
0:39.6	He was a world record holder and a guy that I met at a meet and it was just, I was blown
0:47.0	away by the fact that this is a guy who has stood on top of a medal stand.
0:52.9	Like he's heard the anthem, won a gold medal.
0:56.0	He's that guy.
0:58.2	And yet we're laughing at the swim meet because his daughter, my daughter, we're swimming
1:01.7	in the same age.
1:02.7	I think my daughter beat his daughter, which was this big deal because it was this fun
1:06.0	story because our coach Danny was like, Hey, I think you're, I think your daughter
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