The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #12 - Jamaican Olympic Medalist Chelsea Hammond Ross
The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant
Adrian Durant
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, today we have with us on the show, former Long Jump athlete and an Olympics Bronze Medalist, Chelsea Hammond Ross. Following her graduation from the University, Hammond turned professional, and focused on her long jump career. She started training with numerous sporting personalities, including Olympic gold medalist and 5 times World Champion, Dwight Phillips, whom we have also interviewed in one of the previous episodes, and Tom Tellez, who served as her personal coach. She had a fantastic athletic career where she competed at various national and international events including the 2008 Beijing Olympics where she also won a bronze medal.
In this, video, Chelsea will talk about her early life, how she got into Track & Field and specifically Long Jump. She will share the struggles and obstacles she faced in her path of becoming a world class athlete. She shares her 2008 Beijing Olympics experience and why consistency and self belief is the recipe for success according to her. We also talked about her 8 years long wait for her rightful Olympic medal and also her shocking spine injury during 2012 London Olympics trials which unfortunately marked the end of her golden athletic career.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for joining us on the home stretch with Adrian Durant and tonight we are interviewing |
| 0:17.8 | Olympian Jamaican Olympian Chelsea Hammond Ross and thank you Ashley for joining me again |
| 0:24.0 | to call home. Welcome welcome. So Chelsea another off former team made of mine |
| 0:32.0 | and another gamecock from that legendary team of course. Bring it all the gamecogs on. |
| 0:39.4 | I know it's I know well it's like okay I know all of them but they're on metalists so it's just |
| 0:44.5 | a fiber right. It's just the you know the legacy in gamecog we just we we we deep like that. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah yeah exactly I'm not trying to promote for them too much though because they're my competition |
| 0:54.9 | and yeah we we not go as well on that but no so you did the multi which is crazy because you're |
| 1:04.0 | always doing a million events and you were good at a ton of events I always remember you just |
| 1:08.9 | always do a mad work like you worked hard but you know all you always super like you know a budget |
| 1:14.9 | committed discipline serious athletes but I mean world class long jumper this world class |
| 1:22.9 | and a bunch of events across the board so I want to hear about I want to hear how you got started |
| 1:28.0 | fellow Jamaican like Aileen who chatted with her as well so you know tell me about your background |
| 1:32.8 | how did you get started and I try to do. Yeah so funny story so back elementary school |
| 1:41.0 | they were linus up to go to the playground and then they're like it's almost like like |
| 1:46.9 | dogs in a pen you know like at the racetrack and they're like go I used to race all the boys |
| 1:51.9 | and he used to beat them so he's a time like that like I'm so fast I'd be all the boys school |
| 1:56.9 | through there he's like oh you think you fast I'm like yeah I'm fast so he was like all right let's |
| 2:03.6 | go to the park so he brought my sister she's five years older than me he's like all right |
| 2:10.3 | y'all gonna start right here race to the tree I destroyed her as he's five years older than me |
| 2:16.0 | granted I mean you know she's like let these be athletic but still you know age differences |
| 2:21.6 | a big deal when you're young so anyway he's like man you're fast yeah so we found a local track |
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