Ricky Relives his Wreck
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ricky Garard is done for the season after suffering a shoulder injury while mountain biking. He talks with Oceania Correspondent Jeremy Austin about what happened, what his road to recovery looks likes and the lessons he's learned. Plus, Sean and Tommy talk about what Ricky's absence means for the men's field and who could take his place on the podium
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland and Tommy |
| 0:04.9 | Marquez here with you on a Friday afternoon. And the big news, Tommy, we actually had big |
| 0:11.1 | news breaking this week, is what happened with Ricky Garard. Really unfortunate to hear that he |
| 0:17.9 | will not be competing this season due to a shoulder injury. And this |
| 0:20.9 | is certainly going to have some big ramifications as far as, you know, the men's competition |
| 0:27.0 | is concerned because I think, you know, coming into the season, a lot of people had him, |
| 0:31.4 | given what he did last year, penciled in for being a strong contender for one of the three spots on the podium. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah, I mean, what he did last year at the games, wearing the white leader's jersey for so |
| 0:45.2 | long, I think just kind of added fuel to the fire of what was going to be an exciting men's race. |
| 0:50.1 | You know, we can dive into ultimately what happened in a second, but we got to see little tidbits |
| 0:55.7 | of it continued to build throughout the offseason. Now, obviously, you know, Justin Wins Rogue, |
| 1:01.6 | Ricky and Roman kind of had an off competition, you know, they weren't like fully dialed up for it. |
| 1:05.7 | But then we saw Roman and Ricky going head to head with Pat Velner right there too at Waterpaloza. |
| 1:11.5 | And we started to get glimpses of, okay, well, what is another year of development behind |
| 1:16.2 | A, an athlete and Ricky who's just getting used to, you know, full training and full prep for games now off of his suspension? |
| 1:24.7 | And Roman, who's finally training another full year with the intent of knowing |
| 1:28.8 | that you're going to be at the cross games and that you can get a podium. So, you know, the, |
| 1:33.3 | the thoughts or beliefs of, hey, I can push Justin are now known facts to them and how does that |
| 1:42.0 | dictate, you know, the results the following year. |
| 1:44.6 | And I think everyone was excited. I mean, you hear, you go around the community and the feedback |
| 1:48.8 | has been, oh, man, we were really looking forward to see. And, you know, we got a clip with, |
| 1:55.2 | you know, obviously Justin Kotler, too, an interview with him. But like, love him or hate him, |
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