This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This Podcast.

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Plus you get free shipping and a 30-day at-home trial on your order. I can remember every detail about Beijing the The smell, the lights, the crowd, I remember

Nasty Lucan to go up and compete and give a beautiful routine and I

remember looking at her score and it was a it was one point higher than the highest score I had conjured up in my mind that it was

Impossible for me to get a gold medal. I remember my heart just thinking the entire world is being told. Do I even go out and compete? Do I just throw it? I remember thinking, well if you can't win the gold medal, at least prove to the world that you

deserved it.

And starting my routine and giving the best routine of my entire life.

I'd never felt lighter in my life. I felt like I was on top of the world.

I remember seeing 50,000 people on their feet giving me a standing ovation.

I was there, right? All of us were. We all watched the 2008 Olympics. We're cheering like mad for you. So let's just talk about leading up to that,

what you were feeling and what you thought was gonna happen.

Yes, so I was a 16 year old kid and I wasn't sure what was going to happen.

I was pretty trained to not have high expectations and to not make any expectations as far as like scores or placements or anything.

But I do remember read all the newspapers and all the articles and all the headlines that said

I was supposed to go in and win four or five Olympics. and all

home for team, and kind of bring it all home for Team USA.

So... Which just feels so unfair if you think about that. And so you were your

little brain was aware of all that and you show up and I mean what an unbelievable

thing Sean to spend your life pursuing

something and actually making the Olympics I mean gymnastics there's just a handful of you so you're

living the dream but it feels like a ton of pressure.

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