Kristi Yamaguchi: Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Figure Skater, Author, and Philanthropist.

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Have you ever wondered what it's like to train for the Olympics? You'll get to find out with this episode's interview of Remarkable People with Olympic Gold Medalist Kristi Yamaguchi. In 2005, she was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame. Kristi’s story is one of years of sacrifice and hard work—the power of grit is a theme that we’ve heard over and over on this podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.6	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people. This episode's remarkable guest is Christy Yamaguchi.
0:56.3	I'm on a Yamaguchi streak right now.
0:58.9	To my knowledge, she is not related to Roy Yamaguchi,
1:02.1	the chef and recent Remarkable People guest.
1:05.4	She may not have won a James Beard Award,
1:07.6	but she did win the Olympic figure skating championship in 1992, as well as the
1:12.3	World Championship in 1991 and 1992. She hasn't done bad in pairs, too. With Rudy Galindo,
1:20.0	she won the 1988 World Junior Championship and the pairs National Championship in 1989 and
1:26.5	1990. Since then, she's raised two daughters with her husband,
1:31.1	professional hockey player, Brett Hedekin. Oh, and she won the 2008 Dancing with the Stars competition
1:37.5	and started a foundation to help young people. You'd think that her daughters, with the DNA of an
1:43.5	Olympic gold medalist and an
1:45.2	NHL all-star Stanley Cove winner, would both gravitate, if not rock, figure skating, and hockey.
1:52.1	But you'll never guess what sport her oldest daughter has embraced. Keep listening to find out.
1:58.8	Yamaguchi was born in Hayward, California. Her grandparents were interned
2:02.6	during World War II like 120,000 other Japanese and Japanese Americans. She is Sansei, third-generation
2:09.6	Japanese American. In a moment of weakness, she once agreed to teach me how to do a triple
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