Steele Johnson - 2016 Olympic silver medalist on success, achievement, loss and obstacles
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Steele Johnson won the silver medal with David Boudia in the men’s 10 m synchronized platform diving competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He is a six-time senior national champion with USA Diving and was a two-time All-American diver in college at Purdue.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Steele Johnson about his identity in Christ, his love for metal music, his 2016 Olympic experience and trusting God’s plan in his recovery from foot injuries.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano, and I'm really excited for today's |
| 0:05.0 | conversation with Steele Johnson. It's coming up in just a minute. He's a 2016 Olympic |
| 0:10.5 | Silver Medalist. Team USA Diver. You remember back in 2016 when him and David Bodaya |
| 0:18.0 | won the silver medal in the men's 10-meter synchronized platform diving |
| 0:22.7 | competition. It was a big deal. And I remember watching that and seeing Steel and seeing David |
| 0:28.0 | give glory to God after they accomplished what they accomplished. It was pretty cool. But then it |
| 0:34.1 | hasn't gone smoothly for Steeleele Johnson since then. |
| 0:37.9 | He's had five surgeries on the same foot. |
| 0:41.0 | He actually competed at that Olympic Games in 2016 with a broken foot. |
| 0:45.5 | And now he's gone through five surgeries. |
| 0:47.6 | He missed 2020, or I guess 2021 in the Summer Olympics because of the injury. |
| 0:52.9 | And now he's taking it day by day to see if Paris, |
| 0:58.4 | 2024 Summer Olympics could be a thing. |
| 1:02.1 | He's very clear. |
| 1:03.1 | He doesn't want to look too far ahead. |
| 1:04.4 | Just kind of take it day by day. |
| 1:05.6 | And I get it when you're rehabbing. |
| 1:07.5 | You don't want to make any promises or anything. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm sure there's a goal and a hope to be |
| 1:11.9 | out there in 2024 in Paris. But we'll see what happens. I really was impressed with talking to |
| 1:17.5 | Steele about his faith, though. He loves Jesus and just his identity being rooted in the gospel, |
| 1:23.8 | being rooted in the name above all names in Jesus. So this was a great conversation with |
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