Olympic Gold Medalist Nathan Adrian Eyes 2021
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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With the Tokyo Olympics now officially postponed, 5-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Nathan Adrian joins us to talk about what the uncertainty of the past few weeks has been like, how he and his fellow Olympic athletes will now be adjusting their lives to meet this new timetable, and how the threat of postponement impacted him in unexpected ways (hint: he developed an unexpected affinity for sweets).
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| 0:00.0 | On Tuesday, the announcement that everyone in sports was expecting finally came. |
| 0:11.9 | Last week, the IOC insisted the games were on, that the world moves quickly in the age |
| 0:18.5 | of the coronavirus. |
| 0:19.5 | The reports from an IOC member that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed until next |
| 0:25.6 | year. |
| 0:26.6 | The post-ponement has thrown a major wrench into the plans of Olympic athletes who had |
| 0:42.6 | been building their lives around the summer's games. |
| 0:46.4 | Today, five-time Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, Nathan Adrian, joins us to talk about |
| 0:52.1 | what the uncertainty of the past few weeks has been like. |
| 0:55.3 | His plans for hitting the reset button and how the threat of post-ponement impacted him |
| 1:00.3 | in unexpected ways. |
| 1:02.6 | So I'm going to be totally honest with you that when things started looking like the |
| 1:08.1 | games were going to get delayed, I turned into a little bit of a stress eater. |
| 1:11.6 | And that has never happened to me before, literally ever! |
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