The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #33 - Jamaican Olympic Medalist Hurdler Megan Tapper
The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant
Adrian Durant
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🗓️ 19 September 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the home stretch with Adrian Durant, a podcast where we talk to amazing people, |
| 0:16.7 | world champions and Olympic medalists and we talk about their experiences, the obstacles |
| 0:21.6 | they've overcome and how they achieved success and greatness so we can steal some tidbits |
| 0:27.0 | from their stories. Today we have another special guest, Olympic bronze medalist, Megan |
| 0:32.6 | Tapper. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. Of course and Ashley is joining |
| 0:41.8 | me today as my co-host once again. Thank you Ashley for joining me. Help me out. |
| 0:46.1 | Of course. Alright, before we get started I have to go through your bio. It is pretty extensive |
| 0:53.1 | but Megan Tapper, AKA Megan Lion, AKA the Little Lion. I'm all these pretty cool, pretty |
| 1:02.9 | cool nicknames. So the Little Lion, Topia Olympic bronze medalist and the 100 hurdles |
| 1:08.0 | with a personal best of 1253 and correct me if I'm wrong but the first Jamaican women |
| 1:14.4 | to win in the sprint hurdles at the Olympic Games. And in the Caribbean or so. That's a huge |
| 1:21.4 | deal. You got to say that one more time. You are the first woman in the Caribbean to win |
| 1:31.4 | a medal at the Olympic Games in the 100 hurdles. We got to be blasting your name. We have to |
| 1:38.4 | be blasting your name a little bit more I think. Because enough people don't know this. |
| 1:44.1 | And you've been in the game for a while and wasn't just you know you come out and win a |
| 1:47.3 | medal. You are you know 2010, Crifter Games champion. And for the folks who listen to this |
| 1:52.0 | podcast, we've had a bunch of Krifter folks on here, Eileen Bailey and a few other folks |
| 1:57.2 | from the Caribbean. Oh yeah, definitely. And so if you have a Krifter Games champion, |
| 2:02.7 | we already know that you're on the path to being one of the best. 2010 Central American |
| 2:07.8 | and Caribbean Games Junior Champion. You are 2011, Krifter Silver medalist, 2013 Krifter |
| 2:14.5 | champion. So picked up a bunch of medals. 2016 Olympic semi-finalists, semi-finalists |
| 2:21.2 | in the 2017 World Champs, seven to the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Bronze medalists in the |
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