Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.
I’d like to work with horses, but it doesn’t pay very well. Maybe I’d like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams – like, the Qataris.
The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of ‘you lie’ from the well of Congress as he spoke to a joint session, to the unprecedented spectacle of American conservatives rooting against their own country being awarded the Olympic Games.
I love all sports! I’m always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn’t my calling.
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy’s, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.
I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It’s the pinnacle of any athlete’s career.
It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
My father’s encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
I am actively campaigning for ‘chest hair’ to become an Olympic sport.
My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of – doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I’ve just decided I’ll go with my flow and be very prepared.
To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
Jim Thorpe is someone I’ve always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I’d love to play him. And then there’s a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it’s sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
Little did I know that there’s nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
To work on the competition wear for the Olympics is kind of insane. As a fashion designer, you don’t think to yourself, ‘I’m going to get the opportunity to work with athletes at that level at the Olympic Games.’ It really is such an incredible thing to have any kind of contact with as a designer.
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
I’ve always been the, ‘Sure, I’ll try that’ guy. I’m very adventurous and don’t have fears. I think I got that from my mother’s side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I’ve dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being an Olympic champion.
For sure, 2010 was the best year I’ve ever had. It couldn’t have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
I started track and field when I was 12 and didn’t get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that’s a very long apprenticeship.
My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, ‘Horse & Hound’ magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.
I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we’ve had many, but to play the opening ceremony at – at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it’s such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world’s watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.
It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
I got an Olympic medal.
I don’t want my Olympic experience to be about Mike Pence. You know, I want it to be about my amazing skating and being America’s sweetheart.
To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.
I love sports – I used to play volleyball really competitively…I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I’ve ridden horses my whole life.
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it’s a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I’m going to be happy.
There will be no one like me in the history of Olympics, someone who competed in an Olympic final with one international meet.
Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India’s national flag going up at the podium.
It’s amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that’s definitely my aim.
10,000 athletes go and compete at an Olympic Games, only 300 go back with a gold medal, the number is very, very less.
The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn’t be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I’m having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.
To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn’t, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I’d been ready to go, you know.
I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.
You don’t want to play in League One and League Two pitches – you want to play on a massive pitch in the Olympic Stadium with beautiful grass.
I’ve won the African Cup, I’ve won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.
Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is ‘fully connected.’ This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
We train and work so hard in our sport, we would be nothing less than a warrior. Day in, day out, this is our life. It’s everything. The Olympic dream.
The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
We had a whole bunch of perks after the Olympic games like having dinner with the Queen of England and being hosted by the Prince of Monaco. We got to drop pucks at hockey games. We got to go on quite a tour.
Growing up, I would never have thought that I’d be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.
The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.
I am grateful for my time with U.S. Speedskating and U.S.A. Baseball, as well as for all of my teammates, and I am humbled to lead Team U.S.A. into the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that’s offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That’s my ideal.
I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I’m this role model. So that means I can’t mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I’ve done that and I couldn’t be happier.
The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.
I’ve lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.
We don’t like to be forced off our own tour, onto foreign soil, to qualify for our Olympic teams. That’s ridiculous.
