Hot Take: Interview with Kelly Crowley, Paralympic Gold Medalist

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this Hot Take, Jessica Luther interviews Kelly Crowley, a two-sport Paralympic athlete -- winning two gold medals in swimming at the 2004 Athens Games and two bronze medals in cycling at the 2012 London Games. They discuss Kelly's lifelong sport career as well as what her favorite moments, so far, of the Tokyo 2020/21 Paralympics. She also shares which events she's most excited about before the Games wrap up on September 5. Be sure to checkout Kelly's podcast Inside ParaSport, which she co-hosts with sitting volleyball player Katie Holloway. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Horn it all down. Today we have a hot take for you
0:15.0	you about the Paralympics, which are currently happening through September 5th.
0:18.8	I am so thrilled to be joined by gold medalist Paralyian Kelly Crowley.
0:23.6	Welcome, Kelly.
0:24.8	Thanks for having me on the show.
0:26.8	So let's start with some background on you.
0:29.5	When did you first get into sports and which sports were they?
0:33.1	I've been an athlete my whole life.
0:35.1	I actually started in gymnastics when I was a tiny little one.
0:39.3	Were you one of those bouncy kids?
0:41.4	Your parents were looking for an outlet kind of thing?
0:44.0	I don't remember being that bouncy, but I do remember liking the springboard under the floor in gymnastics.
0:49.4	The floor was my favorite because I couldn't do the other things.
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:54.1	I shouldn't say the trampoline was of some of the other things. Yeah. I shouldn't say the
0:55.3	trampoline was the best part of gymnastics, but I quickly was like not promoted with my peers. And so
1:03.8	my parents put me in swimming when I was in second grade. And so I've played everything, though.
1:09.9	Like I did all the sports in school.
1:11.6	So, you know, basketball, volleyball, softball, all the way through middle school.
1:15.6	In high school I played basketball.
1:17.6	My family is super athletic and competitive, so I did everything with them too.
1:22.6	From like outdoor sports, you know, backpacking, rock climbing, you name it, um, a very intense
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