Morolake Akinosun - USA Olympic Gold Medal Sprinter

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Episode 435

Morolake Akinosun is an USA Olympic Sprinter. She began her career in college at the University of Texas where she was a four-time NCAA 4 x 100 champion and the winner of a gold medal at the 2013 USA Junior Championships in the 100m.

She is only the second woman ever to score in four events at an NCAA Outdoor Championships in consecutive seasons.

In 2015, she won a Gold Medal at the Pan American Games (4 x 100 m relay). In 2016 she won a Gold Medal at the Olympics in Rio (4 x 100 m relay) and in 2017, won a Gold Medal at the World Championships (4 x 100 m relay).

A year later in January of 2018, Morolake suffered a ruptured achilles injury that sidelined her for all of 2018 and half of 2019. She was able to return and in the Fall of 2019, earned a Bronze Medal at the World Championships (4 x 100 m relay).

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Morolake about overcoming adversity, finding purpose, training for the 2020 Olympics, living for Christ and walking that faith out on the Olympic stage.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum.
0:21.8	I'm Jason Romano.
0:22.9	Today on the podcast, we bring you a conversation with a U.S.
0:27.4	Olympic gold medalist.
0:29.5	Mora Lakey Akino-sun is her name.
0:32.6	She is a Nigerian who is a part of the USA Olympic track team.
0:39.1	And her story is a really good one.
0:40.9	She's just the second woman ever to score in four events at an NCAA outdoor championship in consecutive seasons.
0:50.1	She's a 2015 gold medalist in the Pan Am Games, a 2016 gold medalist at the Olympic Games in Rio, a 2017 gold medalist at the World Championships.
1:02.1	And just this past year, in 2019, she was part of a bronze medal winning world championship team, all in the four by 100 meter relay.
1:13.5	But this 2019 bronze medal might mean more than any of the other medals she's ever had
1:20.3	because of what she had to overcome.
1:22.8	She tore her Achilles.
1:24.7	She ruptured her Achilles in January of 2018. And as this podcast gets going,
1:31.6	we talk about that road to recovery and all that she has learned in this process, not only
1:38.8	about herself, but about God. Really awesome stuff here. More Lakey Akino-son, take a listen to her story and her journey here on Sports Spectrum's podcast.
1:54.6	Moralee, welcome to Sports Spectrum.
1:57.1	Hi, Jason.
1:57.9	Thank you for having me.
1:59.0	It's great to have you.
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