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Texas Swimmer and Olympian David Johnston · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: A very special guest. He is a two time national champion.
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  Speaker 1: He is a US Olympic swimmer, and he's a University
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  Speaker 1: of Texas at Austin athlete. He's David Johnston, one of
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  Speaker 1: my good friends, and we've been talking about doing this
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  Speaker 1: for a while.
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  Speaker 2: David. So, hey, good to see you and Glad we
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  Speaker 2: can make this work out. How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm great, good to see you, Cameron, really excited
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  Speaker 3: to speak with you today and Glad we can do.
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  Speaker 4: It on air.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, first off, congratulations on your national championship. Your second
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  Speaker 1: national championship. He won one as a freshman in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. You went and won in twenty and twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and going into the defen it felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: a three horse race between Texas, California, and Indiana. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people had California as the favorite
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  Speaker 1: to win, but it was the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: There. There's sixteenth national championship.
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  Speaker 1: What changed and what sparked you guys to go into
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  Speaker 1: that week and have an incredible week and capture the
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  Speaker 1: national championship?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think when you win a championship, it
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  Speaker 3: starts at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Just building that culture.
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  Speaker 3: We had a team of new guys and when the
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  Speaker 3: year first started, we had a lot of talent, but
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  Speaker 3: we didn't have the cohesion we had at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the year. And you think swimming is like an
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  Speaker 3: individual sport, but we had to really bond as a
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  Speaker 3: team to be able to push each other every day
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  Speaker 3: in practice to be able to get to that point. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it started with the belief that we could
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  Speaker 3: win and we had the talent, but we were able
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  Speaker 3: to build that culture over time, and I think just
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  Speaker 3: you know, what helped us win wasn't talking about winning
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  Speaker 3: the championship. It was getting out there on those you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday mornings when nobody was watching and we were pushing
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  Speaker 3: each other.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, it was awesome to be able to win.
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  Speaker 3: You know, four years ago as a freshman winning a
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  Speaker 3: championship and then winning four years later as a senior
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  Speaker 3: is just a dream come true. You know, I really
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  Speaker 3: wanted to win another championship and just really happy that
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  Speaker 3: things turned out that way.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I would say what made the.
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  Speaker 3: Difference was just everybody pushing each other in practice and
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  Speaker 3: having that great team culture that Bob Bowman was able
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  Speaker 3: to establish and we were able to work together to
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  Speaker 3: get there.
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  Speaker 1: So Texas obviously wins the championship. Ye have floridaan for
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee in fifth, Georgia seven, so forour se team in
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  Speaker 1: the top ten obviously the inaugural season for Texas in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. Did you feel a difference in events competing
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  Speaker 1: in the SEC versus the Big twelve and do you
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  Speaker 1: think that played a factor and you guys winning the
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  Speaker 1: championship at all?
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  Speaker 3: I think so, you know, I think the SEC meet
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  Speaker 3: was really elade. We never experienced anything like that coming
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  Speaker 3: from the Big twelve, and I think it really tuned
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  Speaker 3: us up to be able to swim at NCAA's because
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  Speaker 3: the SECS was so fast this year. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know the exact numbers into statistics on it. You
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  Speaker 3: said four of the top ten teams are from the SEC,
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  Speaker 3: but probably fifty percent of the best swimmers in the
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  Speaker 3: NC DOUBLEA we're in the SEC. So that meet was
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  Speaker 3: very fast. It took really quick times to make it
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  Speaker 3: back and that prepared everyone to swim at n C
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  Speaker 3: Double as. I think you know, at SECS we had
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  Speaker 3: a couple of guys that would make it into a
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  Speaker 3: be heat and then swam faster times at night.
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  Speaker 4: But at ncuable as you.
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  Speaker 3: Can't do that because to win the NCAA Swimming Championship,
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  Speaker 3: you got it so well in the morning to seed
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  Speaker 3: the guys into the finals and be in the A
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  Speaker 3: and B finals. So I think we learned from that experience.
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  Speaker 3: We were really sharp for them want to get NC
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  Speaker 3: double a's, and you know we're really sharp at night too.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think Bob prepared everyone on the team
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  Speaker 3: to swim well in finals and to swim well in
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  Speaker 3: multiple sessions this year because of just the amount of
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  Speaker 3: like you know, lactate practices we did where we worked
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  Speaker 3: on getting our lactate up and then trying to maintain
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  Speaker 3: that keeps swione fast. So just those really tough practices
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  Speaker 3: fueled us to be able to swim multiple sessions because
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  Speaker 3: the n c DOUAA Swimming Championship is a seventh session meet,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, you can't should be good for one session,
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  Speaker 3: you got to be good for all of them.
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  Speaker 4: So and that's what we did.
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  Speaker 1: First year with Bob Bowman as a new head coach.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just say, you're you're kind of spelled, Davey. You
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  Speaker 1: go from Eddie Reese, the most legendary swimming coach definitely,
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  Speaker 1: and Longhorn lower you go from him to Bob Bowman,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably one of the best swimming coaches on the
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  Speaker 1: planet currently. What's the difference in their coaching styles? Obviously
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  Speaker 1: it both works. Considering you won a national championship with
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  Speaker 1: Eddie and you won and one with Bob.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured you would ask this, and what I
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  Speaker 3: would say is, you know, you can't places Eddie Reese.
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  Speaker 3: I love him, and he's one of the most successful
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  Speaker 3: coaches in US history. But Bob is also in his
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  Speaker 3: own right, So I would say, you know, the biggest
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  Speaker 3: differences both the practices are really hard, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 3: about that. But I would say Bob tends to be
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  Speaker 3: more organized, and that doesn't mean that Eddie's not a
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  Speaker 3: good coach. But Eddie would kind of come in and
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  Speaker 3: watch practice and see how people look and build this
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  Speaker 3: practice from there. But Bob kind of has this master
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  Speaker 3: plan at the beginning of the week, and they both
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  Speaker 3: work really well. I think Eddie was really really good
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  Speaker 3: at communicating with people and knowing how to deal with
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  Speaker 3: the alumni and you know, the parents and Bob's also
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  Speaker 3: good with that, but it's just kind of impossible to
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  Speaker 3: replace the person that Eddie is and that's what makes
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  Speaker 3: him so great. But Bob and his own right is
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  Speaker 3: also tremendous, and I'm just really glad that we got
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  Speaker 3: him to be the head coach because we needed a
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  Speaker 3: big marquee coach to be to be with this program.
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  Speaker 3: And we've won fifteen national championships and this was number sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, Eddie's legacy of having fifteen national championships
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  Speaker 3: is super tough to replace. But we have the best
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  Speaker 3: coach in the world in Bob Bowman here and it's
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  Speaker 3: been awesome and to see him go to work and
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  Speaker 3: the guys really buy into his system, and I would
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  Speaker 3: say everybody on the team really believed in Bob's coaching
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  Speaker 3: and everyone believed we could go fast because they trusted
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  Speaker 3: Bob's coaching plans. So you know, it was tremendous to
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  Speaker 3: be coached by him this year. And yeah, you're right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm totally spoiled to have both of those coaches.
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  Speaker 4: And it's an honor.
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  Speaker 1: Not many athletes can say they've won two national championships
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  Speaker 1: with two different coaches. How how different was the one
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  Speaker 1: you wanted twenty twenty one as a freshman compared to
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  Speaker 1: the one you just won twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think coming in my freshman year in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty, it was it was a different year with
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  Speaker 3: the COVID right, and it felt like the whole year
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  Speaker 3: was leading up to this kind of Texas and Cal
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  Speaker 3: duel that we've seen since probably twenty eleven, it's been
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  Speaker 3: Texas and Cal at the top, and you know maybe
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  Speaker 3: in Arizona State or Michigan mix mixed in there when
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  Speaker 3: they won a championship.
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  Speaker 4: But it was pretty much the whole year getting ready
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  Speaker 4: to race Cal.
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  Speaker 3: But this year it was a three team race and
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  Speaker 3: getting ready to race Indiana. And I think this year
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  Speaker 3: each team picked up new people at a midseason and
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  Speaker 3: that's what made it interesting, was it was I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not free agency, but just with nil that my
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  Speaker 3: freshman year was the last year where we didn't have
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  Speaker 3: in IL and having nil in this year's and c
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  Speaker 3: double A has really affected things. I Mean, we went
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  Speaker 3: from finishing seventh last year to winning the title this year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's super rare in swimming, I mean, in
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  Speaker 3: other sports you see more turnover, but swimming tends to
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  Speaker 3: be more consistent. But I think what made this year
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  Speaker 3: swimming in Cuba team rates really fun to watch was
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  Speaker 3: that there were three teams with a very legitimate chance
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  Speaker 3: to win, and it was very close. But in previous
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  Speaker 3: years you don't really see that it's just one team
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  Speaker 3: that you probably know is going to win, or it
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  Speaker 3: could be a Texas Cal rivalry, but this year it
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of teams mixed in there. And as
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  Speaker 3: far as just the feeling between the first and the
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  Speaker 3: second one, you know, the first one was a ton
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  Speaker 3: of fun winning. I mean, but I did it with
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  Speaker 3: a completely new group of guys. I mean, Kobe Crows
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  Speaker 3: and I were the only ones to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of both teams. So this is a new time in
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  Speaker 3: Texas swimming. We have a lot of really good younger
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  Speaker 3: swimmer on the team, and my freshman year I was
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  Speaker 3: swinging with a completely different group of older sores. And
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  Speaker 3: so my freshman year I was the real young guy
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  Speaker 3: and this year I was kind of the veteran, so
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  Speaker 3: I was able to experience two different teams. And I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I would say this year is probably sweeter because I
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  Speaker 3: had to wait four more years to get back there
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  Speaker 3: and after everything that our team went through.
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  Speaker 4: But both were special on their own right.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, this year felt different because it was different
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  Speaker 3: guys and it was a big journey to get to
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  Speaker 3: this point. I mean we finished second in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: third and twenty twenty three and seventh.
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  Speaker 4: And twenty twenty four, so you know, we were slipping down.
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  Speaker 3: In the rankings, and then after we got Bob and
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  Speaker 3: we're able to find people in the portal, we were
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  Speaker 3: able to win again. And I think it's not only
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  Speaker 3: is this a testament to what Bob has done after
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  Speaker 3: he's got here, but also the work that Eddie had
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  Speaker 3: on a lot of the guys on our team that
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  Speaker 3: were sophomores that he developed last year, because those guys
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  Speaker 3: were really key to helping us win and Eddie.
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  Speaker 4: Was able to develop those guys.
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  Speaker 3: So it was even though this year was big, it
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  Speaker 3: was years of years and years of work to be
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  Speaker 3: able to get back to this point. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I dreamed of days like this the last four years
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  Speaker 3: and we couldn't win and we finally got there, So
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  Speaker 3: it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think twenty twenty five was shape up
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  Speaker 1: protect us because you still have another year left, right.
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  Speaker 3: I do, Yeah, you mean the twenty twenty next season
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  Speaker 3: six yeas, Yeah, I mean right now, I would say
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  Speaker 3: we definitely have the best chance of winning because we're
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  Speaker 3: returning the most points. And I'm super excited for that too,
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  Speaker 3: because we've got a whole new group of swimmers coming in.
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  Speaker 3: We just got two Aggies that are transferring into Texas
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  Speaker 3: that committed a couple of days ago, and they're super
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  Speaker 3: elite swimmers and so we're excited.
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  Speaker 4: To have them.
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  Speaker 3: And we also have some really good high school two
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  Speaker 3: American high school swimmers coming in, and we have three European,
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  Speaker 3: really good European.
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  Speaker 4: Swimmers coming in, So I'm excited to train with them.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I think next year we have a
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  Speaker 3: very good chance to win, and it would be awesome
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  Speaker 3: to go back to back and kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: rekindle a Texas dynasty.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm really really looking forward to next year.
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  Speaker 3: And I know, just with me personally, I didn't sw
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  Speaker 3: I'm bad at the NC douaa's but didn't have the
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  Speaker 3: individual meat that I hope for. And I figured out
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  Speaker 3: what I personally did wrong, completely separate from the team success,
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  Speaker 3: and I spent the last two weeks already working on that,
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  Speaker 3: already getting back to things, and I'm hoping to make
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  Speaker 3: Worlds this summer and then just swim a lot better
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  Speaker 3: next year and you know, score even more points for
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  Speaker 3: the team. So even though we won last year, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I took the team's success super happy about that, but
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  Speaker 3: then came back more motivated about myself and working on
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things.
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  Speaker 4: Already that I'm going to be better at next year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, individually, you've had a lot of success as well.
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  Speaker 1: You were twenty twenty four Olympian in the Paris Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: And first off, what was that experience like for yourself
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  Speaker 1: being able to not only qualify for the Olympics but
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  Speaker 1: be able to compete You're in Paris, but also I
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  Speaker 1: know you and a lot of other athletes also were
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of sickness going around. What was
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  Speaker 1: your experience overall like in the Summer Olympics last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, despite having COVID, it was an awesome experience.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think my favorite part was.
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  Speaker 3: Just being on the on the boat ride with at
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  Speaker 3: the opening ceremony and getting to meet so many of
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  Speaker 3: the NBA players that I grew up watching, and just
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  Speaker 3: other athletes there and being able to respect that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, swimming in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: Having COVID, I didn't do great personally, but I was
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  Speaker 3: super happy to be there and race. I got to
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  Speaker 3: watch a lot of cool swimming, especially once I got
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  Speaker 3: over my illness. And I mean being at training camp
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of fun because we went to Croatia
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  Speaker 3: before we went to Paris for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: And being in Croatia, you know, out by the water
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  Speaker 3: and Rieka and doing stuff out there and hanging with
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  Speaker 3: the team was a lot of fun. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: making the team itself at trials was awesome because I
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  Speaker 3: barely made the team on the last day, so I
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  Speaker 3: was the very last person to make it, and that
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  Speaker 3: was super exciting because it was up in.
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  Speaker 4: The air whether I was going to make it or not.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, qualifying on that night and getting out
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  Speaker 3: of the pool, being able to sign all those autographs
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  Speaker 3: and take a lot of photos and being lifted up
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  Speaker 3: from under the pool to celebrate making the team was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That's things I dreamed of as a kid. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: just really happy that I don't have to wait three
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  Speaker 3: more years to be an Olympian. So, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was an awesome experience and it's given me a lot
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  Speaker 3: of learning experience and motivation to try to come back
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  Speaker 3: in LA and win the gold. But I mean, ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: it was awesome being there. And yeah, I mean it
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  Speaker 3: would be awesome to have the Olympics in LA and
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  Speaker 3: I think just having that in home soil, we can
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  Speaker 3: bring so many people out there to support me and all.
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  Speaker 4: The other athletes. So I just got to do my
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  Speaker 4: work and make it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you sent me a video or a photo
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  Speaker 1: from when you're on You're on the boat in France.
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  Speaker 2: What was that river? What's the river called that they had?
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  Speaker 2: Like completely clean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't remember, but I think you sent me
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  Speaker 1: my song and you next to Lebron James. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's NBA athletes that we all have watched,
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  Speaker 1: but then there's Lebron James in a different, different tier.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that must have been kind of like what
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  Speaker 1: am I doing here type moment?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was the Sin River then, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was super cool.
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  Speaker 3: I I got to talk to Steph Curry and Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Durant and kind of show them what it was like
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  Speaker 3: when I was at their games trying to get their
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  Speaker 3: autograph like six years ago.
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  Speaker 4: And I talked to.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Durant about like what it was like to be
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  Speaker 3: at Texas and next to him on the boat for
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  Speaker 3: a bit, and then got to meet a lot of
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  Speaker 3: other cool athletes, like I met Noah Lyles, and like
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  Speaker 3: Tyres Halbert and Anthony Edwards, and I met like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of really cool volleyball players and rowers and divers
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  Speaker 3: and just those people were super nice. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean tremendous experience. And you know, just being being up
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  Speaker 3: there with them was definitely an experience to take in
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  Speaker 3: because it's not every day you get to be in
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  Speaker 3: the same you know, vicinity as Lebron James are.
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  Speaker 4: So one of that magnitude. So yeah, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it was called the Sin River, and I
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  Speaker 3: was actually supposed I didn't do the ten kilometer race.
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  Speaker 4: I was supposed to do a ten kilometer race in
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  Speaker 4: the Sin.
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  Speaker 3: Which probably wouldn't have been a good idea anyway because
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  Speaker 3: it was so infested with viruses. But I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't swim for two hours, like I'd never even done
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  Speaker 3: it tim k before, but they told me I could
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  Speaker 3: do it because I qualified in the longest race in the.
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  Speaker 4: Pool and we only had one guy that.
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  Speaker 3: Like actually made the ten kilometer race and so he
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  Speaker 3: actually did it. But you know, I could have done it,
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  Speaker 3: which would have been a fun experience, but I mean,
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  Speaker 3: with with where my health was at that point, I
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  Speaker 3: probably could have come down with worse and maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: for the better.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't do it. I'll try to do it in La.
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  Speaker 1: Did those who compete in the cent River did they
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  Speaker 1: come back sick at all?
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  Speaker 4: I think a few people did.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone officially got any crazy virus,
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  Speaker 3: but I know there were a lot of people that
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  Speaker 3: were hospitalized after.
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  Speaker 4: So it was just an awful situation.
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  Speaker 3: And it just thinks that the politics from France got
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  Speaker 3: into that. You know, that's not what the Olympics should be.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I'm sure it'll be better in LA
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  Speaker 3: and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I know you were sick a lot during the Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you watched some other swimming meets, but
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  Speaker 1: any other sports, any events that you attended while you
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  Speaker 1: were in Paris. That stood out to you to catch
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  Speaker 1: any ping pong, any any basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you mentioned ping pong.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't get to attend any live events,
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: which is what I want to do more of in
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: LA because I had to leave after my race was over,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: which was the last day of the swimming meet, which
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: kind of stinkd But you know, I got to meet
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: the only table tennis player.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: From the US. I met him in the in the
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: Team USA.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Quarters because we were we're taking eyes bath, and so
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: I got to talk to him a lot about his
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: journey in table tennis. He's actually played for a couple
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: of different countries and so I actually have been keeping
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: up with him and watching.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: He's still training hard and making progress, and.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's funny you mentioned that I actually got
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: to meet some of them. And you know, I didn't
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: get to go to any live, live events that I
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: really wanted to. I really wanted to go to that
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: final basketball game, but I had had to leave. But
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: in LA I'll definitely make sure to do that.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Hey David Johnson, thanks so much for stopping by him, man,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: and looking forward to seeing what you do at the
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Summer Worlds. This year and of course next season maybe
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: when you're third street or when your third national championship.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Now we'll go for it. Thanks a lot for having me,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Cameron and hook him.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: That's David Johnson, two time national champion swimmer at the
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: University of Texas and US Olympian or the come here
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• 14:52
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• 14:53
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