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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, an American woman sets a teen USA record

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Speaker 1: in Paris. They give her her medal, and then they

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Speaker 1: give her an invoice for five hundred and sixty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this special episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think I described that correctly. The voice was not

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Speaker 1: for the metal, but for something else that Haley Badden

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Speaker 1: did in the race.

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Speaker 2: Yes, apparently she went mistakenly through a lane that was

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Speaker 2: dedicated for taking on food or drink or having some

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Speaker 2: sort of mechanical issue. So the judges reviewed the footage

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Speaker 2: and saw that even though she went down the lane,

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Speaker 2: she didn't eat anything and she didn't fix anything, so

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Speaker 2: she was fine.

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Speaker 3: So the thank goodness, she wasn't disqualified.

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Speaker 1: She went and I didn't really we were learning so

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Speaker 1: much about rules of a lot of these sports, and

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Speaker 1: in this mountain racing, mountain bike racing, the race that

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Speaker 1: she was in, Yes, you could be disqualified for some

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Speaker 1: like that. So we've been talking about dramas and points

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Speaker 1: and scoring and protests. It was happening in mountain bike

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Speaker 1: and even though it didn't get as much attention, it

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Speaker 1: was going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know what we should ask the young

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Speaker 2: woman who actually won the silver medal, Haley Batten, twenty

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Speaker 2: five years old, and congratulations Haley.

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Speaker 3: You're coming to us from Spain.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I'm in Gerona, Spain right now, preparing for

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Speaker 4: World Championships.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, help us understand this? You preparing for You

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Speaker 1: should have been preparing for the Olympics the past four years.

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Speaker 1: Now you're preparing for something else already. Is this just

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Speaker 1: the schedule for you? I guess world class mountain bikers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, it's crazy how you invest so many

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Speaker 4: years in preparation for one day, one hour and a half.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, no, pretty quickly.

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Speaker 4: We still have a whole World Cup calendar and World

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Speaker 4: Championships events coming up, so yeah, it's you know, we

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Speaker 4: race for our factory teams as well and for you know,

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Speaker 4: our nations you know at THEIST championship events. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: the racing must go on for sure.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds like you're having fun while you're

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Speaker 2: Tell me, can you tell us how you celebrated your

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Speaker 2: silver metal victory and really, you know, breaking that barrier

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Speaker 2: that TJ just mentioned you this was the highest ever

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Speaker 2: finished for an American in this particular sport, so what

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Speaker 2: an incredible feed not just a metal but a record.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it is.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of crazy when you put it that way,

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Speaker 4: for sure. I I mean, everything's been a whirlwind for

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Speaker 4: the past week. I'd say, you know, you start the race,

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Speaker 4: there's so much focus and preparation, you know, mental and

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Speaker 5: Much going on in the race.

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Speaker 4: And then you finish and pretty quickly, you know, I

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Speaker 4: had awards ceremony, anti doping, you rushed off to media.

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Speaker 4: You're running all over the place and it's hard to

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Speaker 5: But you know, it was really cool to go to

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Speaker 5: the Team USA house.

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Speaker 4: I have in my family, my coach, all these people involved,

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Speaker 4: and you know, the excitement around the Olympics for Team

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Speaker 4: USA is huge, right, It's not just an athlete stream,

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Speaker 4: but it's really a childhood dream. So there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of energy and Team USA does it better than else

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Speaker 4: anybody else. I really believe, like it was really really

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Speaker 4: cool to be part of that.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, congratulations, you are a part of that. You

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Speaker 1: add it to that metal count. So congratulations, And we

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Speaker 1: were asking because it's funny, we're waiting on Haley to

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Speaker 1: come back and get a Heroes welcome. You're not going

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Speaker 1: to be home with that silver medal for a while,

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Speaker 1: because you can on vacation. You went to Paris and

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Speaker 1: now you're there. When will you actually set foot back

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so probably like the first week of September actually,

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Speaker 4: So I've got a home there wins month, Yeah, to

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Speaker 2: So nice, the silver medal can can finally come home

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Speaker 5: It's heavy too, right, It's not easy to lug around.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's heavy, but it's it's worth the wait.

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Speaker 2: Right, What was it like for you to have that

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Speaker 2: quickly were you slapped with this fine and and how

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Speaker 2: what that moment was like for you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh my gosh, no, you're bringing it back for sure.

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Speaker 4: I mean you cross the finish line, there's all this

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Speaker 5: And then you're pretty quickly, you know, you finish, people

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Speaker 4: Media and to get in line. You know, all these

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Speaker 4: and I'm like just saying, like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: You know, I was honestly in shock. I had no

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Speaker 4: they're definitely you know, building it up a bit. They

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Speaker 4: you know, they told me people would protest, but I've

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Speaker 4: I'm never an athlete to try and ever take a shortcut,

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Speaker 4: So to feel you know, one questioning, oh gosh, did

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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, these things

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Speaker 5: And it happens. You know, this happens a lot in racing.

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Speaker 4: And the feed zone's always been like a tricky area,

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Speaker 5: I'll respect that and I'll take it for sure.

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Speaker 1: But can you tell during the race though I think

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong on that. But it happened.

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Speaker 1: But when it happened, did you in the moment think

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: No, Like I said, I finished the race and I

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Speaker 4: the feed zones are They're the same way at every

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Speaker 4: World's Cup. It's like this. You know, one lane is

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Speaker 4: I mean it was just I was just getting to

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Speaker 1: That's weird to think that that that they said there

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Speaker 2: The wild thing is if you had grabbed a power

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Speaker 4: it's not a mistake, right, like it is and I

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Speaker 4: So there's a lot going on racing and go through

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Speaker 3: So wow, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: And to give people who are listening and an idea

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Speaker 2: In the Olympics, they're twisting gravel paths, I've learned, a

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Speaker 5: Oh? Oh gosh.

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Speaker 5: I'd have to go back to check.

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Speaker 2: With Yeah, seven seven two point four mile laps, that's

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Speaker 2: but I was just trying to imagine what that is like,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean it's really intense, right, Like the

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Speaker 5: That's a lot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you do you ever?

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Speaker 1: Hailey. If you can tell she has stomach issues and

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Speaker 5: That makes sense for sure.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't imagine.

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Speaker 1: How many calories can you burn in one race?

437
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, do you want me to.

438
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Speaker 3: Check of chefs?

439
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,399
Speaker 4: I would love I could tell you, like a in

440
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,160
Speaker 4: a ride, In just a ride, I mean, it's pretty

441
00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,399
Speaker 4: easy to go to twenty five hundred calory, you know,

442
00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,719
Speaker 4: kj's or something. Yeah, so today I could tell you today,

443
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,320
Speaker 4: just like a two out two forty ride, I burned

444
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 4: fifteen hundred kJ. So that's not crazy, that's not a

445
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,920
Speaker 4: crazy day. But in a race, I mean for sure

446
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Speaker 4: fifteen hundred for.

447
00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 3: Sure, maybe more.

448
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,840
Speaker 2: And you know what, you came back from a very

449
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 2: serious injury just last year, back in June of twenty

450
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,480
Speaker 2: twenty three, you suffered a concussion in a training crash

451
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Speaker 2: in Austria. Coming back from something like that physically is

452
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Speaker 2: one thing, but also mentally correct What did you have

453
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Speaker 2: to do to I mean, the idea of crashing at

454
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Speaker 2: the rates of speed you're going at on the kind

455
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Speaker 2: of terrain you're writing in is frightening, to say the

456
00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,600
Speaker 2: least mentally. How did you get past that and through it?

457
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Speaker 5: Yeah? For sure? That was my hardest injury so far.

458
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 4: You know, I've I've had cuts and bruises, you know,

459
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 4: and bad crashes that are scary, but for sure concussion

460
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 4: one hundred percent was the scariest one so far. And

461
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 4: I think it's because it really affects your perception of reality,

462
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,119
Speaker 4: you know, like puts you in this like fog right

463
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 4: or what I call like a fish bowl where you

464
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 4: just aren't experiencing life with the clarity and joy. That

465
00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,439
Speaker 4: is what's so great, you know about just like just

466
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 4: daily life, you know. And that injury was really hard

467
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,199
Speaker 4: to because it took me a lot longer than I

468
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 4: expected to recover. It was I think like five weeks

469
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 4: before I could really get back to fully training again.

470
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,199
Speaker 4: And that was because I that when I crash, it

471
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 4: was actually between two races, so I had done a

472
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 4: race the day before, and then I was on training

473
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Speaker 4: on the course to finalize some of my lines on

474
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,959
Speaker 4: some of the technical sections and I crashed and it

475
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 4: wasn't even a bad crash. I didn't think I had

476
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Speaker 4: a concussion actually, so I got up, I kept riding.

477
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 4: I was totally fine, and I actually decided to race

478
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Speaker 4: the next day.

479
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,880
Speaker 5: And that was the number one mistake.

480
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 4: So as I've learned, like since then, is a concussion

481
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 4: can those symptoms can develop within twenty four to forty

482
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 4: eight hours later. And so because I played with that

483
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 4: really crucial recovery window, you know, my blood pressure went up,

484
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 4: my heart rate, your you know, I was having caffeine,

485
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 4: all these things that were fully suboptimal for what I

486
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 4: needed to do to help my brain recost, and that

487
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 4: really affected my recovery timeline. So it took a lot

488
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 4: longer than it needed to and it made my symptoms

489
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,120
Speaker 4: a lot worse. And yeah, it took me a lot

490
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 4: longer to recover. So that was really hard, and I

491
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,959
Speaker 4: had a lot of amazing people supporting me and helping

492
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 4: guide me to the right things to do, because as

493
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 4: an athlete, it's really easy to try and get right

494
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 4: back on the bike or you know, get back to training.

495
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 5: Or push through, push through, push through.

496
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 4: And I think the lessons that that injury taught me

497
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 4: went way beyond just injury recover but has helped me

498
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,199
Speaker 4: a lot as an athlete since then, of learning the

499
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 4: difference between working harder and working smarter, and being able

500
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Speaker 4: to listen to my body and how I feel, and

501
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 4: also just appreciating my sport even more and what I

502
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 4: do and why I love it, because an injury like

503
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 4: that makes you really reflect on why the heck do

504
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 4: I do this crazy thing?

505
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:53,239
Speaker 1: You know?

506
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,120
Speaker 5: Do I want to keep doing it?

507
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 4: And just like gratitude for life and the sport that

508
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 4: I do and how lucky I am to pursue it

509
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 4: at a high level. So yeah, I learned a lot

510
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 4: during that time and it was really hard.

511
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's good to see you. You're back, and

512
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: obviously it was certainly think it's worth it, But can

513
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: you tell me, because you Olympics, your your race just happened.

514
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 1: You got out of there and you're on to the

515
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: next thing. But did you get the full Olympic experience.

516
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm just curious about our Olympic village if you got

517
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 1: to even hang out with a lot of other athletes.

518
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 1: I know you all were doing your race and kind

519
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: of a different spot than everybody else was in, and

520
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: so just what was the experience.

521
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, yeah, it was really cool because I was

522
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 4: in Tokyo as well, and that was just not quite

523
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 4: the same. You know, my family couldn't be there and

524
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 4: the fans, you know, and this year, yeah, we arrived

525
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 4: in the in the village with my teammates and we

526
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 4: did the whole USA team processing, right, So you're getting

527
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 4: these bags of clothes and trying everything on and getting

528
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 4: fitted and having the support from these amazing brands, and

529
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 4: you know, you go to the meal hall and there's

530
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 4: so many athletes, right, it's like the dream, right an

531
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 4: that you're walking around it. Everybody's spit and and you know,

532
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 4: the best at what they do and just so cool,

533
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 4: right or they're you know, you've seen them on TV,

534
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 4: and so that whole environment's just amazing, right, And yeah,

535
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 4: pretty quickly we went and we locked into to our

536
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 4: venue in Ellencourt, which was not inside the village, but

537
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 4: honestly it was okay with me.

538
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 5: I didn't need to sleep.

539
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 4: On the cardboard beds every night and of the village mood.

540
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 4: So we we locked into performance for sure, and that's

541
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 4: also the best part of what we do. And my

542
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 4: family was there, and then after the race, I yeah,

543
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,120
Speaker 4: I got to go to the Team USA house.

544
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 5: I did this whole media tour.

545
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 4: I did the the the Metal ceremony that that front

546
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 4: that Paris did, which was incredible because I got to

547
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Speaker 4: share it with the Olympic gold medalist who was from

548
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 4: France in our event, so that was really special.

549
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 5: And then yeah, I went out with my teammates and

550
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 5: we saw.

551
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Speaker 4: The beach volleyball event the next night under the Eiffel Tower,

552
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 4: so that was super cool, and just checking out Paris,

553
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 4: and then I went on vacation in Portugal with my

554
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 4: family pretty quickly after. So I definitely got the experience

555
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 4: that I'm super grateful for, and the medal was definitely

556
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 4: the highlight for sure.

557
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Speaker 2: It sounds like like probably the most amazing two weeks

558
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 2: ever in your entire life.

559
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Speaker 3: What you just described trip, that's amazing. I wanted to

560
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Speaker 3: give a shout out to Arkansas. DJ is from Arkansas in.

561
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Speaker 2: Fact, yeah, and we were just funny enough in Ventonville

562
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 2: not that long ago and saw all the cyclists and

563
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: wasn't putting two and two together that it's the home

564
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: of the National mountain Bike team of USA cycling.

565
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 5: Correct, Yeah, yeah, it is.

566
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Speaker 4: They've supported us so much and as you saw, like

567
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 4: the infrastructure there for cycling is next level. And I

568
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 4: really believe that, like when a community invests in making

569
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 4: a city like walkable and rideable and cycling friendly, like

570
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 4: that is what every state needs, right kids can like

571
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 4: bike to school and bike to bike to work. I

572
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 4: think that's like the baseline of how biking is and

573
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 4: it's obviously translating there and to to some more world's

574
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 4: class trials and training facilities as well.

575
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: So who can claim you? Who should claim you? Because

576
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: everybody wants to claim you. Santa Cruz wants to claim you.

577
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: Could you live there? Park City wants to claim you

578
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: because you brought up there. Now Arkansas wants to claim you.

579
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: Could you could train there? So which is it?

580
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously you know, Park City is where

581
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 4: I grew up, so it has a special place in

582
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 4: my heart. But I think what's so cool about what

583
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 4: I do is that I I mean, like, like I said,

584
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,959
Speaker 4: I'm in Girona part time of the year, and then

585
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 4: I'm going to this crazy place and then this, and

586
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 4: then I'm back in Santa Cruz. But then pretty quickly

587
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 4: I go off to the East Coast to do more races.

588
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 4: So I travel the world and I travel the really

589
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 4: cool places and they've all made me the athlete that

590
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 4: I am today. So home for me isn't a lot

591
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 4: of really special places. So I feel really lucky to

592
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 4: have the support of those communities as well. It's what

593
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 4: makes it so special.

594
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Speaker 1: Well, Haley, finally here, have you paid the fine?

595
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, we paid the fine as fast as we could.

596
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 4: I do all agory about that.

597
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: And it wasn't tie to the metal. It's not like

598
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: they say we're going to withhold your metal until we

599
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: get your money, right.

600
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 4: No, No, it really like there was no way that

601
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 4: the race dynamic would change based on that. It's really that,

602
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 4: you know, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have done that,

603
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 4: and to make sure those rules are followed to make

604
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 4: the racing go. Like you know, there's a lot going on,

605
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 4: like what we talked about racing, there's a lot of people,

606
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 4: there's a lot of feeds, mechanicals. We need to make

607
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 4: sure those feed zones don't have people just riding through

608
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 4: them for fun or or you know, doing something that

609
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 4: doesn't keep the keep the racing you know, running smoothly.

610
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, I'll take the fine if that's

611
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 4: what we need to keep our sport you know, running well.

612
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 5: And yeah, next time I won't do it. That's pretty sure.

613
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 3: Like, hey, how do you pay it? Electronically? Write of

614
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 3: a personal check?

615
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 5: Usa cycling did it for me. Honestly, I just want.

616
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: To make sure you didn't have to come out of

617
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: that money.

618
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: And I know you're obviously there and you're you're still

619
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 2: cycling and so races, but do you have are you

620
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 2: already starting to think about twenty twenty eight?

621
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 3: La?

622
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 5: Oh?

623
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 4: For sure?

624
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 5: Yeah.

625
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 4: I mean I think as athletes, the planning happens many

626
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 4: years in advance, and for I think just the energy

627
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 4: of seeing like Pauline, you know, win her own country.

628
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, you can have this one, but

629
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 4: the night and then you know, the next one's mine.

630
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean me and my coach are like, okay,

631
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 4: like like I visualized winning this race, you know, I

632
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 4: wanted to be an Olympic champion, silver medal. I feel

633
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,239
Speaker 4: like in a hundred ways I won that race in

634
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 4: my mind, you know, Like and for me, I won

635
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 4: the silver medal right, Like the way I race everything

636
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 4: like was so amazing. But I also didn't have a

637
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 4: great start. I flatted right, I missed.

638
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 5: The feed zone.

639
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 4: These are things like for me, these are all controllables

640
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 4: of becoming excellent. And so every you know, after every

641
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 4: race that I sit down and I write like, how

642
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 4: can I be better? And I think you know that

643
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 4: preparation starts, you know, when you're motivated and you care

644
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 4: the most, And that's like right after the Olympic Games, right,

645
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 4: So for sure, I'm using this to motivate me and

646
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 4: my preparation moving forward.

647
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: She got to do LA. I mean, can you imagine

648
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: LA is so close to her home of Santa Cruz

649
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: and her home of Park City.

650
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I love it.

651
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: Going for gold in twenty twenty eight.

652
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 5: That's amazing, exactly right.

653
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: That's congratulations, Haley, And thank you so much for taking

654
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: some time out of your very very busy life right

655
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: now to talk with us. Just so inspiring and we're

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Speaker 2: so proud of you. Congratulations.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks so much for the good questions. It was

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Speaker 4: good to talk through everything.

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Speaker 1: No, thank you for the education. And you know what

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Speaker 1: I meant to say this earlier. It's cool to see

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Speaker 1: somebody as passionate about their sport as you are. You

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Speaker 1: light up when you start talking about it, not talking

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Speaker 1: about the silver metal necessarily, just talking about the sport itself.

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Speaker 1: You clearly enjoy it and the technical parts of it.

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Speaker 1: I know you noticed it earlier. She was bouncing off

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Speaker 1: the seat when she started talking.

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful to see that passion.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's nice.

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Speaker 3: So do you guys bike or what we run? My

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Speaker 3: city bike?

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Speaker 2: That's about I get to a bicycle. But yes, we've

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Speaker 2: we've been running. But it's I'm just I'm always in

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Speaker 2: awe of people who can do those types of endurance

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Speaker 2: things that just take every single bit of of your

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Speaker 2: energy and your effort and your mental the mental challenges

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Speaker 2: that come along with endurance types of athletics is just

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Speaker 2: remarkable to me.

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Speaker 5: We know it from the running for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're just loud of you and thirty minutes right,

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Speaker 2: you're inspiring. I know so many, so many young folks

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Speaker 2: out there who think if she can do what, I

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Speaker 2: can do it. So thank you for sharing your story.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, and good luck in your marathon. I

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Speaker 5: hope you got thank you. Yeah,