What It's Like to Play in the Olympics with Nicolas Colsaerts

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Andy Johnson is joined by DP World Tour pro and 2016 Olympian Nicolas Colsaerts as the 2024 Olympic golf competition kicks off this week at Le Golf National in Paris. The two discuss Nicolas's experience representing Belgium at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, both in the golf tournament and as part of the greater Olympic community. Andy and Nicolas debate how team golf can be implemented into future Olympics and whether players would like to see that as a change. Nicolas also shares stories from his time supporting Belgium in other sports while in Rio alongside his teammate and countryman Thomas Pieters. After wrapping up with Nicolas, Andy and Garrett Morrison talk about where golf stands in the Olympics today and how it could become a bigger part of the sport and players' legacies in the future.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
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0:11.6	fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host Andy Johnson. Today I've got a jam-packed
0:45.1	episode that centers around Olympic Golf. We are at the point where we have the
0:49.7	Olympics starting this week. We've got the men's competition at Lake
0:52.8	Golf National this week followed by the women's competition next week.
0:57.2	I think the Olympics are in an interesting place where they they're
1:02.1	kind of like floating about so I thought this would be an
1:05.1	interesting episode to put together we have Nicholas Cole starts joining to
1:09.8	talk about his experience playing in the 2016 Olympics at Rio. He was in the mix going into the final round.
1:17.1	Kind of like he didn't have a good final round but was there, you know, with the with the thought of possibly winning in Olympic medal.
1:25.0	So really cool experience and thoughtful person that I think soaked in the experience overall.
1:32.0	And then I'm joined by Garrett Morrison, our Garrett Morrison, to just talk about the Olympics and where it sits today and where we think it might go. So this is a super fun podcast. Nicholas will be up first. I
1:46.2	realize that it didn't have my mic turn on halfway through this interview. I
1:49.7	apologize. You're just getting it through my headphones. So if it's a little bit
1:53.4	scratchy, I promise it gets better for the back three quarters of this episode. So I
1:58.8	realized the lights weren't on and I was like, oh, it was early in the morning, I'd flown to the East Coast it was it was rough I was you know
2:06.2	effectively up very very early for my body clock so I flipped it on and I hope you guys enjoy this episode and thanks thanks a lot to Nicholas for joining All right Nicholas, thank you so much for coming on on the podcast. You played in
2:30.4	the 2016 Olympics.
2:33.6	You played golf, you represented your country, Belgium.
2:37.0	I didn't realize your grandfather played two sports in the Olympics.
2:42.0	Was a basketball and water polo player in the 1920 Olympics.
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