Christian.

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

We have 10 shows to go until the games in Paris and over the next 10 shows.

We counted down with 10 golden moments.

Australian gold medalists take us back to their golden moments.

Today we kick off with a great one.

Adam is actually won two Olympic gold medals.

Takes us back to her first one, Athens 2004. Have a listen to this.

Christian O'Connell's golden moments counting down to the games in Paris. Anna Mears at the 2004 Athens

Olympics in the Velladrome for the 500-meter time trial.

I remember walking over to the marshalling area. My legs just felt like two pillars of concrete.

They felt so heavy like I wanted to use both my hands to help pick them up and move them along.

I remember sitting in the, in the chair,

facing the track, facing that crowd. And my coach, Martin Barras, he had a big smile on his

face as he looked at me and said, last ride at the Olympics 34-1 to beat, which has been the same

line that he had delivered me in training for two months because he thought it would take an

Olympic record to win the 500. And from that moment, this sense of calm came over me. I could breathe

again. My legs lightened. And I remember walking up onto the track, clipping into the bike.

I remember a fly was buzzing around my hands and just annoying me. And once I get my

hands set on the bars, I don't like to move them. So I'm 10 seconds from the biggest race of my life

and I'm flicking my elbows and I'm worried about chewing this fly away. And then I remember the last

beeps of the countdown. Remember breathing to the countdown, deep breaths in and out. And then I just

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