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🗓️ 14 February 2022
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Olympian Kyle Dake discusses sports mandates at the Olympic Games and in other collegiate and professional sports.
Dake won a bronze medal fo US Wrestling team in Tokyo in 2021 and is a four time NCAA collegiate champion in four different weight classes for Cornell University.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I'm really excited about my guest. Hey, Kyle Dake is a father, a husband, |
0:06.9 | and an Olympian. He was a bronze medalist at the Olympics in Tokyo and a three-time world champion |
0:14.5 | for the USA. He won for Cornell University, his alma mater. He won four NCAA championships |
0:25.6 | in four different way classes. And I think here, the first person in history to do that |
0:31.8 | arguably, a lot of my friends when they heard they were coming out there, and he is the best wrestler |
0:37.9 | in history. And nobody else has come close. Has anybody even won? Has that nobody's won for |
0:44.9 | before? Correct. So there's three other people that have won for |
0:49.8 | Pat Smith, KL Sanderson and Logan Steber. But they all won at one or two way classes, |
0:55.7 | and then I won it for. But there's never been anybody to win at three other way classes either. |
1:01.1 | So when I did it, I was the first one to win at three different way classes as well. |
1:04.7 | What does it take to change way classes? So when I was in freshman college, I was still boy. |
1:11.2 | I was, you know, as just a young kid. I was a late bloomer. And I ended up cutting a lot of weight |
1:17.9 | in my freshman year. And I had made the commitment that I was going to wrestle 141 pounds. |
1:23.0 | And our team was set. We had a really, really strong team. We were ranked second in the country |
1:27.2 | all year. And so I made that decision to stay there. And about halfway through the season, |
1:32.1 | and I was like, there's no way I'm wrestling at 141 again next year. I'm definitely bumping up. |
1:36.4 | And I did. So the next year, I went 149. I had a very similar season, very successful. Our team |
1:42.7 | was very good. We were ranked number one in the country in the whole year. And about halfway |
1:46.8 | through, I was like, man, I'm, I had grown about an inch from the time I stepped on campus to then. |
1:52.2 | And my shoulders starting to get a little bit wider. I was packing on more muscle. And I was |
1:55.7 | like, man, this is, this is tough. So I made the decision halfway through my sock one year. |
2:00.8 | I'm like, I'm definitely going up next year. I couldn't go up at the time because we had a really |
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