Olympic Quotes
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An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.
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You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.
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Personally, just being able to compete in an Olympics, being part of an Opening Ceremony wearing a green jacket with the rest of the Australian Olympic team, would be a more than a dream come true.
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One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.
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I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.
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No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.
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The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.
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It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides.
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Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.
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As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'
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I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.
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Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
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My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.
