TFS Running Podcast 144:
Sanya Richards on Beijing
and Life in the Spotlight
Posted September 10th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Track & Field, Olympics, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts
Finding herself at the tail end of a busy, up-and-down Olympic year
during which she has earned two Chinese jade-inlaid Olympic medals, Sanya Richards hopes to finish her season with an exclamation point at the IAAF World Athletics Final on September 13th and 14th, 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany. Before that, however, she sat down to talk with TheFinalSprint.com, not only about her disappointing finish in the individual 400m race in Beijing, but her amazing support system that helped her regroup after that race and run an exciting come from behind anchor leg in the women’s 4×400m relay final to help her team win gold.
Download the podcast to hear Sanya discuss Team USA’s performance in Beijing as well as the Jamaicans’ ascendancy to world sprinting supremacy. In this special-edition podcast that begins a series about “Women In Sports”, Sanya talks about the pressures and attention that accompany her success. She talks about the dynamic involved with being represented by her mother, Sharon Richards, she touches on the financial aspects of being an elite athlete, and she offers advice to young female athletes about body image and handling the pressures that come with being a healthy woman. Finally, she discusses her nutrition, balancing her career, her relationship with New York Giants’ defensive back Aaron Ross and all of the other demands on her time as well has her European season.
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Host: Adam Jacobs | Guest: Sanya Richards
Producers: Greg Cherniet, Adam Jacobs
Music: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File size: 12.3 MB | Length: 00:18:30
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Tags: 400 meters, 400m, aaron ross, new york giants, sanya richards, the final sprint podcast, thefinalsprint.com podcast, track and field
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