Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Christian O'Connell's golden moments, counting down to the games in Paris.

Stephen Bradbury at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games, winning gold in the 1,000-meter short-track speed skating final.

The morning off is so exciting. The adrenaline is pumping, nervous energy.

That's what an athlete lives for.

I remember sitting in the change room

and you could just feel the energy in the stadium

even underneath it in the change room.

16.5,000 people chanting.

American superstar Apollo Ono's name.

I knew that I wasn't as strong as the other skaters in the final.

And my head told me that I needed to stay out of the way

because there's a good chance that some of the other skaters in the final

would go through each other.

Olympic final in South Lake City

nine laps for the thousand meters.

We're coming into the final turn.

I've dropped off the pace 10 on 15 meters

and I see the Chinese gait of Xi Zhongli

try to move on the outside of Apollo.

I know he doesn't make it.

They bump.

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