GREG RUTHERFORD - STRICTLY GOLD
London Real
Brian Rose
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2016
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
Greg Rutherford, MBE is a British track and field athlete who specialises in long jump. He won Gold and Bronze at the London and Rio Olympic Games respectively.
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Chapters:
00:00 Trailer.
01:55 Brian's thoughts on the episode.
05:27 Brian's Introduction.
06:03 Being famous.
08:08 What Greg learnt as a competitive sports person from being on Strictly Come Dancing.
19:13 Learning to manage positive and adverse social media.
20:59 Winning Gold at London 2012 Olympics.
24:53 What motivates Greg to win.
26:54 The killer edge, inherent belligerent belief.
33:51 From the red carpet to everything falling apart in 2013.
36:59 Mental strategy for possibility of career ending injury.
38:40 Building foundation for future career path.
40:54 Coping with bitter disappointment at Rio Olympics 2016.
46:42 How Greg gets his body to perform despite injury.
49:36 Taking responsibility for being a role model.
51:33 Performance level and entertainment value of Usain Bolt and Conor McGregor.
1:00:01 Re-igniting public interest in track and field events.
1:02:01 Taking inspiration from Mo Farah.
1:03:56 Carl Lewis' negative attitude effect on sport.
1:07:31 Performance enhancing drugs use.
1:16:24 Jamaica's success in athletics.
1:19:31 Drug taking in football and sports where vast sums of money are involved.
1:21:52 How growing up with Jehovah's Witnesses parents shaped him.
1:26:52 Greg's book 'Unexpected' shows about going off the rails.
1:30:56 Greg's past body issues.
1:33:01 Without Dan Pfaff Greg wouldn't be an Olympic Champion.
1:39:37 How Greg turned his life around.
1:43:50 Greg's forays into skeleton bob and NFL.
1:49:01 Launch of Take Flight, online fitness programme, hopefully to revolutionise the fitness world.
1:58:25 Success secrets.
1:58:55 Wild parties after Olympics.
2:01:34 Why Greg spoke out about Tyson Fury's remarks.
2:05:05 Phone call to the 20 year old Greg Rutherford.
2:07:27 Best advice ever received.
2:09:07 Advice to the young person listening who wants to succeed in sport.
2:10:29 Brian's summing up.
Show Notes:
Greg Rutherford on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregJRutherford
Greg Rutherford Team GB: https://www.teamgb.com/athletes/greg-rutherford
Greg Rutherford on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Rutherford
Greg Rutherford's Book: Unexpected
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unexpected-Autobiography-Greg-Rutherford/dp/1471162524
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Having this sort of killer edge if you like and this desire that no matter what happens |
| 0:09.2 | you will go on and you will succeed is something that I think often you can't train, |
| 0:14.5 | definitely not in a sporting set, |
| 0:16.0 | but it's something that you have to have to have in it, |
| 0:19.0 | but you have to hone it as well. |
| 0:20.0 | The media will turn you very quickly and that's what I found as well and I |
| 0:28.1 | had to sort of go back to it and go, do you know, I want to prove people wrong. 8 Peter's 30's broken the British record. |
| 0:35.0 | Nobody expected me to become what I became, but I did. |
| 0:40.0 | It was just me, and again, I said it, I said it, I said it, it was an inherent belligerent belief. I always said I would |
| 0:46.3 | go on and achieve great things in whatever sport I term professionally. To be a champion of anything you have to be a major risk taker as well. |
| 0:57.0 | I know it could go wrong but why not enjoy that ride until it does go wrong |
| 1:01.0 | and do everything you possibly can to win until it goes. He can still quite believe that he is the Olympic champion. |
| 1:13.0 | Once again an amazing ovation brings out around this magnificent stadium. Bea. Bea. Bea. |
| 1:23.0 | Bea. |
| 1:25.0 | Bea. Bea. I'm going to do. So, This week on the show we have Britain's most celebrated long jumper Mr. |
| 2:00.8 | Greg Rutherford who brought gold home at London's Olympics here in 2012, |
| 2:06.0 | and he just came back from Rio de Janeiro, where he brought back the bronze medal, |
| 2:11.0 | and he has been a contestant on strictly come dancing |
| 2:15.2 | been watched by 10 million people and it's been fascinating to see Greg really |
| 2:20.3 | become a dancer of all things you know gone from Olympic athlete to a dancer of all things, you know, gone from Olympic athlete to a dancer and his new |
| 2:25.6 | autobiography called Unexpected is out where he talks about growing up as a Jehovah's Witness and |
| 2:31.3 | how it was a real struggle as a kid not having Christmas and not having birthdays. |
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