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speaking and champagne

champagne made Jonathan cook finished more than 10 seconds Office trial time

and 19th place overall on Saturdays 5000 meter race

Winter Olympics in Sochi Cookeville be competing in to Morgan City Olympics

15000 race and the team pursuit of Superman

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Meadows mall Jonathan cook stays busy at the Olympics

hearing from 3 former Olympic skaters from central Illinois football

Savoy Kathy writer 5 time Bonnie Blair hearing about the

about their triumph challenges even a little about Jonathan cook today

program continues after the news

welcome to focus on Jim Meadows if you look at the central Illinois ends of computer

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heated in the Olympic Games of recent years you’ll find nearly all of them have done is wearing

wearing ice skates the latest is Urbana native Jonathan cook Houston

computing in the Sochi Winter Olympics in 3 speed skating events today

focus will hear from some former Olympians with roots in central Illinois

champagne age of Catherine writer also with speed skater took silver and bronze

the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver Peoria native map Savoy computed interview

Turin Italy 2006 in men’s figure skating at first

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first we’ll meet speed skater Bonnie Blair who grew up in champagne and made history

history by becoming the first female American athlete to win five Olympic gold

gold medals Blair retired from competition in 1995 but she’s

representing the United States as a delegate at the current Winter Olympics in Sochi gtalk

talked with Illinois public media Scott Cameron shortly before she left estates for

for the Olympic Village you represent in the United States in Sochi as as Adele

is a delegate what year old is for the delegation what I’m actually going to be due

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doing that at the closing part of the Olympics for the closing ceremony soap

what kind of girl do a couple other events

gold medal hockey is one that I’m kind of excited to go to the hop

the hockey MN go to closing ceremonies and its on my cell

myself Eric Heiden speed

speed skates with him and then there’s I can’t win Kauai

which is she’s a hockey player female hockey player that tree

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what retired and then there is the Secretary of State will be with us

what us as well as the ambassador to Russia from the United

why did state so we have with call the delegation in rebate basically reprise

represent the president here because he’s not able to attend

what is there to do I feel that in a different kind of

kind of the category to represent our country in really chew on Team USA

USA and you and Eric still find ways to be competitive with each other

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can I completed together at the Olympic Trials

1980 the day was the only other competition that we were evergreen at the same time

time because he was really tired and that’s kinda when I started getting into

things men do you know a great person a great doctor

turkeys traveled with a speed skaters in the past is a team physician

so she’s also given back to our sports in various

different ways can I have you been up to service a delicate the US News

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before actually got to do it in Vancouver games are

is also for closing ceremonies and it was it was just a really need

unity and kind of cool cuz you like

Cajun a stop the traffic so its kinda makes havoc from

everybody else but you don’t want somebody on the inside but doesn’t get to do something like that

very much is it better to be on a Wheaties box

maybe I am getting a seat on the hockey in summer

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something other than stew US get in a wreck much with us speed skaters

usually it’s so they actually have which is different than when I was at the

the Olympic Games um its called us a house with a place where

Swizz Beatz can go and kind of relaxing they have

lunch and dinner and some very sponsors kind of do some things at that point

point in time to come but it’s so that’s where I would see them

for the most part I don’t usually see them to after they’re done

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because im pretty focused on what they need to do in the city

is that they need to take care of to get ready and prepare for the races

who or what is Jonathan cut from myself

champagne there would be very exciting to see him do well again

did the Vancouver games Kobe competing in the 1500 to 5000

meters in as well as the team pursuit which I think I are guys

the team pursuit really have a great shot of winning a medal there um

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one thing that could happen that hasn’t happened since 1968

the meaning of look it up naked forgetting about it how to Richardson and Brittany

Whitney Bowe both from US Speedskating 1050

1500 both the medal stand and I don’t think to American female

female Robin on the middlesteins 1968 so that would be really cool

definitely porn for them and wishing them really good luck

your record in terms of most metals 1 in Winter Games stuff for a long time

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San Antonio Apollo on a broken 2010 does anybody have a chance of passing record in Sochi

play I don’t know what time is Charlie Davis

could maybe I don’t know maybe tie with maybe

maybe some metals but I am NOT a I think he’s got 40 diesel

so he could a reason three events that gets he could overtake me

go to 7 metals um so yeah I think Shawnee Nvidia

video from some of the other support attorney pick the year was that really at the same time

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sometimes more the Chateaux the short Rackers just because of an opportunity to be in a few more

more than you’ll ever know that’s kinda come about a little bit more with

Ontrack adding the pursuit in there I’m Intuit POS

politics is playing the bigger roll around these games released in in recent years

US Russia anti gay laws in the US delegation includes

whats the number for athletes who are open the game have been for a long time are you single

are you making statements part of the ocean no I’m not

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1900 I really wasn’t aware of all the political stuff box

behind the scenes in till the delegation the People

what 1 ounce to represent the president

that’s a no for sure not to my knowledge not why I was pictures

Victor whatever but I think I am

winter sports is usually been pretty good with a lot of the politics and stuff

stuffed kind of state is it but this time it seems like it’s kind of

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drones some things up and sing for the most part no. I hope

hope people realize that what about to happen over the next couple weeks

weeks is all about athleticism an athlete trying to go

do the best represent their country and I trying to keep

peace around the world so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that’s what happens

no milk makes you want to do you think is there any legitimate role for political issues human rights issues

never might be to come out during the Olympics you know I’m really not sure

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you know I’m sure that that could happen but um that’s not mine

my Avenue of going over to the Olympics I’m going there to cheer on the T

the games are always set up as no matter what was happening around the world the game to the one place to go

correct exactly okay I’m also

how much fun stuff to your but we also heard a good deal about terrorist threats to these games

games that were you able to eat on fortunately is this day in age

age of RR world around us

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never know what’s gonna happen like down the street and you know anytime

Mike something comes out of the TV like breaking news or whatever you like oh no not one

what happens when you don’t think um as with anything III

I kinda go into whatever I’m going with my eyes open and

making sure I’m aware of my surroundings and I do the same

the same when Im over there from everything I’ve heard they almost got a

endless amounts of security and money that they have spent on

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sonnet and I don’t think that they want anything to have

what happened over there you know I think you’re going to be proud to put these Olympics

sauna and want to see things go without a hitch so I went there to do everything in their power

no power to make sure that that happens if you’ve been to Bimini number Olympic Games

Napoli does the Ambassador grill Conroe has you’re planning train instructions

give me for these games been different because of his friends no not really

um its getting warmer than your typical home

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have to take a big c*** does probably like this what is this thing

things but I didn’t know I think I just want anything when you go to sleep

something that is that wattage just need to know going out with

what would your eyes wide open in making sure you got one I going forward in one eye

when I going back to you later the show we are going to hear from him Katherine writer also

dispise get from San Juan to old is Macaulay Jeff Bostic hear that you’re in for

influence on her career with huge you answer with a role model for a lot of people including

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who did Frankie might my younger sister got a speed skating after watching you in the Olympic Games what

what is it meant for you to be a role model is definite

definitely an honor and I also

Nick said something that I don’t take my but I also feel

in another sense that my parents brought me up in a good

good way I had a lot of role models and head is me that that I will

look up to on the border in Champaign on a local level in

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you know I’m a national level and you know it you just hope that that type of

what does evolution keeps happening and I’m sure there’s a lot of girls that you know

look up to Catherine and now she’s kinda in that position that maybe I was

I wasn’t so you know what you did something that keeps Revis

revolving and you know what time I’m glad that I was able to

2240 do it Wiz

what I hope it is Grayson dignity and goodwill MN

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I know you knock on wood that you hope you don’t screw up even

it can be unforgiving a dime

does ou mention you can talk about Jonathan on a boat speed skaters

champagne edition yourself is there

something in the water around here without a successful speech getting you definitely gotta want

wonder and I think you just even looking at a hole at the speed skates

skating in general we don’t have the numbers that

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what’s a football or baseball does Rorschach

soccer does it mean when you look at how successful are sport has been

at the Winter Olympic Games really truly is amazing

so you know I think we we been very lucky within the sport to get

good core group of athletes you know that can heal

cumming in upgrade still like to see those numbers get bigger

I’m still like to see us have a lot more numbers to choose from because

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what numbers we’ve had to choose from which are really many vendors

36 s 430 w that could make BB 60

access to get 3 on the podium at the same time I mean that would be really cool

cool so I just definitely in different areas

UC the sport as I need a window but you always hoped for

revival especially during the Olympics so over these next couple weeks

we hope we start a mortgage interest and I got white sapphire

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some of them in and get them thinking about the next games on tinder

2018 this is a relatively small community here in central

central Illinois is you Katherine Johnson Almeida big do you have it

pretty unique relationship for the three of us rebonded hair

twist certain extent old is it because they’re kinda after me I really did

didn’t get to interact with a time um

do shin pain picture and what I call

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Vancouver games at what was us a house up there

three of us we’re together they had their medals in

very proud of you know I’m cool that our hometown

champagne has produced by an Olympian

not just Olympians but metal with a hole in a relatively short

short period of time so very proud of what they’ve done

I dont know them a time but I definitely respect everything

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everything that they’ve done and I Jonathan what he’s about to embark

Conover these next couple weeks ago and now Catherine kind of taking a roll of being a coach

coach just another stepping stone of staying involved in the sport and trying to get back

give back Jonathan so he then you will be competing in Sochi

preview of any sense of history weaknesses are what people might want to watch Forrest

Jonathan’s one of those guys that at

Ford Center the radar think sometimes that can be too

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2800 a positive for him and I

she’s a very hard worker he trains like an animal

31 lot of the Seas going to school in Champaign

Milwaukee there’s not a lot of people that can do what he has done

and I cannot lie I really look to him is the 5000 being

is stronger base vs the 1500 b***

take it to the team pursuit Jimenez

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misty mate definitely have a great shot at winning a medal there so

definitely got an exciting cup exciting couple weeks coming up to eat part of the

part of the reason that you said your going to Sochi is said you’d be part of your work with I’m with

butts butts CRS Catholic Relief Services what is that what your mother is a shin

probably just know it’s been over a year ago

go to protest about helping the charity cos Catholic

Catholic Relief Services in once I get to word a little bit more about the organization

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Chennai really loved with a stud for having me travel around the world

scene good bad and indifferent and you know I’ve got a lot to charity

charity work your locally on with some various causes

this was one that was more worldwide and I fight you know if you can do something

The Naked kind of touch the world how cool is that I’m so what Ciara vs Rihanna

about the actually found it back in the 1940

40’s and more about a sofa staining projects

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search for instance kind of during the Olympic Games are there going to be

I train your waist $50,000 for $10,000 River

Drury gold medal in the whole idea is

im to raise money to build and create

running water for a lot of people so dumb Princeton

what effect 10000 people to have safe household water to drink

link and probably close to 17000 school children that they’d be able to get new witch

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do it reads so um you know it’s just a really need car

and something like I said we can really touch the world with hand soap

so during the game that’s going to be one of the fundraisers there doing when you can learn more

learn more about it by going to CRS WI to Wisconsin where I live

im.org I was also curious so you

who won what five gold medals correct in one run track

where are they foreign what is Cardinal

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what I call a door with a coffee table

and um so yeah a friend of ours from the sport of speed skating

I’m created me a coffee table that sits in a great room in um

I’m the shape of Olympic rings Wow need saying yeah its really it’s real

it’s really cool so how do you take care of those really long term

stay in the table sexy steel inside

can get into one but um you know you it’s the prefix

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the piece of glass on top where’d you gotta try to get me know

try to move it to get to him but yeah I mean it is it’s pretty cool ok

does it really is needed easier after about shining or anything I can take the one from couch

Calgary taking it out so many times did so many times a day

getting around the edges should be a Mitsubishi

how do I get to share instructions

no they don’t come with instructions tag like my mattress

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never have Olympic medals thank you for

so when you come back and visit champagne

you know what I try to get there a couple times a year is actually down there for the first football game

the mission 101 a 1

why do I still have a lot of great friends down there and try to get

get down there but you know I was first and foremost candy comes my kids if they got me running

One Direction another number One Direction tour

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Shanor the weekend I got a kind of go with them but like I said I do

still enjoy what I will always count call my hometown campaign

Bonnie Blair spoke with Illinois public media is Scott Cameron show

Shelby representing the US in closing ceremonies at the Winter Olympic Games February 20

23rd we just heard money talk about being a role model for young skaters

Catherine roerva to time Olympic medalist decided to pursue speed skating

after Bonnie Blair came to speak at her high school Centennial High Plains Road

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writer talked with wyll Jeff boxer I want to go back and talk about

when you were a young child and first find out what made you so interested in

did in speech getting closer to skate when I was pretty young girl with on roller skates

skates when I was a toddler and my mom to meet you like a mother daughter ice

ICD class on campus your body when I was a 45

45 and I think of carrots from the noticed me out there

there and just that I was listening to strictures in 2005

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go fast so they told my parents I know if my really thirsty

so after I finish off that the figure skating cost

I just getting in I remember every body telling me

all the coaches under skaters that like figure skater and I do not know

what that meant that I knew what I wanted to be like after so fat

that’s what really caused the country in right away in a deer stand by

are serious in my other sports is involved in cell

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is the conflict with getting back to say happened to the other sports

went to the back burner in speed skating always stayed center

the Ice Arena that you used what does infertility that one of a lable

call at a certain age that you so you could you had to go somewhere else to train

what is Roseville Beloit wis the other guy over um

I started needing more trading partners in we’re coaching and stone

so my parents are driving me down to St Louis on the weekends like train with

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athletes there still a better than me and the boys give me some chase

and then there is some coaches down there who were former Olympian spend it all the sports

support for years and years in really got along well with my family and I still eat a lot of trees

treating downtown St Louis what happened to the experience of meeting Bonnie Blair

influence your career  so I was like

look up to body Blair remember very young age that my dad

my dad had all the videos I like my dad recordings off

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of all the Olympics in the word watch reruns of Bonnie Blair

dan Jansen Turner and Amy Pearson and so I always

always knew about the skaters in about the accomplishments they made

Madar member was in the third grade I got chicken pox

and I would have to be in like the Epsom salt bath for whatever type of medicine

chicken pox and pass the time I read the books written

written by chance it in the air so very young age date

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huge impact on on what and who I knew about the other

world and then when I was 16 she actually came to Centennial High School

high school speech for all the athletes that the squad

and I never I was involved in a school sports the time but one of the

athletic director said hey do I know that your speed skaters

schools for you should really coming to dinner on this thing and at the end of it

applicator like called me up to the stage person I was pretty cool

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pretty cool um at that point I had been accepted the train at the

the belt with the development team that was in Marquette Michigan what was feeling really

concerned about it Junior High School from home

finish my senior year training in Michigan go to see like a really big

really big scary stuff but I feel singer speech that day and things that

what she had to do in order to be good so good she was already at my age

felt like I was behind the fallen I was 16

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if I wanted to do something I really needed to make that stuff in black

MIB going back to bed here but is there a teenage girl porn

pointer maybe one time out the ice when you like pie I know I have to tell it to do this in computer

in the Olympics I remember

is 12 taxi skating in line for the time is it in the national championships

and I remember getting the feeling of

um  this is what I want to do professional speed skater

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Kurupt at the National

national dad Debbie Downer Noel cute that you want to be a professional

make sure you have another plan and I really like

dad um

and I was looking at that was probably is sleeping for 12 year old to say but

but I was just very fortunate that I have ended up making a dream come true

on Ice I wouldn’t say that moment tour

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really hit weather like yeah I could I could really great

does Michael Olympics my whole journey was the journey of of getting

getting stronger learning more becoming more technically sound taking

better care of my body it was always the journey and I

I would find out on race day at work hard enough to get there not

running through the metal separation of leaving

leaving home and were you when the training and the experiences like

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leaving on 60 and was very difficult both for me and my family

only child and soul when moving away

play at the age just never had your brothers or sisters pecan cake

and when your part of the team a huge part of being a team

good fun but I really never been to a shin where I had

I had to like tough enough to that type of thing so far away

far away I live in college dorms at the high school student and there was just

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a lot of a lot of Stephen playground that happened to T

what are really not use a guy but I was already like pretty upset

just having to leave my my home and my family is the first sexual really hard

definitely say that if I have moved away the United

become the stator that I became how expensive is pursuing a career as a speed skater

expensive yoteslaya parents just how much

Brett 18 was the first year that I qualified for a stipend

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650 dollars a month and I live out Salt Lake apartment with a roommate

mild food gas travel everything I don’t pay for was like this

facility use and coaches have to pay for the sex toy store related have a Leon

my parents helping me out and I said I don’t know I don’t want to

want to know how much a financial sacrificed at the bakery

where was the experience of going to the Olympics

what you would hold you looking back I wish that allowed to have more fun

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very very serious is a focused and committed

winning a medal and the way that the sea can you schedule was the stated about every

what every 23 days so we never have I ever had a big a big enough

rate between races to feel like I could let my guard down um wallet with

experience to represent the United States thanks I can’t stand it was

everything I could possibly dream that would be really happy

take him away with but that is there any other yung berg

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South Bay air pilot Elena make sure that the third killing

big is there in 30 minutes till can have fun and have a period

fake friends without being distracted from your goal when you’re complaining about leveled

level d the athletes typically hang out when your not in competition

depends on the athletes on the team really feel like direct competitors hangout

but I was always really good friends with the Dutch and they were actually very competitive

got more compatible with years in the relay but there an individual E

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um I didn’t have anybody I was always your fighting for 1st 2nd with soap

does Kroger my friend the Korean American American men

Penn Station to spend time together but I think the Olympics

even without going into other countries all the same building as

USA Hockey 36636 curly real estate by Avalon

why did I get back with lyrics the still it was kind of a

Sylvania throat through it all what was the most stressful time

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is it raining or was it when you got to the Olympic level 4 guess I would say

say there’s a point in the trading cycle where you start

take the value of the intensity on and wild

while your body starts to feel way better to have a lot more energy

perform at higher Waffle start to have more energy

what energy and time to think about how things are going to know what you’re doing

crazy mama flap set up a tough pays for several hours every day

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everyday I don’t have much time to like to really think Arden judge yourself you just

whatever it takes to get your workout the day you will it start to get really close to

close to competition times 10 to the second matter little tiny displacement

the temp you’re feeling better and Ally that the singer

extra hours trading shorter because

410 for time to think about your crazy and I can get released Russell

dont master the ability to

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that’s a good for today that’s it until it’s a good day to you

how to say I like about school of Atlanta today

easy to release a parent does stress over what

what do better next time one of the worst day is like what if it never gets

never gets better stressful tell me about how you got hurt

got hurt in Indian dream deferred how it felt like

hip pain for the beautiful you’re leaving

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leaving up to the Olympics in this weird popping sensation in my right hip

tips for quitting you want it was it was a particularly painful it was true

is just very weird deep sensation

in the joint the weather like a muscle paid or the shooting stabbing pain

deep end of discomfort and then thrift

first three months before the Olympics in 3 months Metta World Cup winning Olympic qualifier

is Marquette Michigan to get rid of their computing and I fell and hit the floor

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wards in such a way that just  I don’t know what it was

was it was extremely painful like I don’t think that I’ve ever been able to not finish

relay race before but I hit the pads and I was screaming and I got a package

Billy I slide down the finish a race without me I never went to the doc

the doctor  I just kind I don’t know why did the doctors

helping me get through things to get back on the eye

on the ice leader of duty at the Olympics after Olympics Patriots

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no probably what happens in the valley torn labrum

hip and the the popping sensation got worse

Perry apk more more people to stay until Katrina

cross training so I can feel effects download

looks like yeah I actually eat surgery to tell you but

surgery to fix that so I got the surgery in 1800 crazy

crazy fast successful rehab but I don’t think I spent the time

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how to reset my foundation noun direct me if I’m wrong

the doctors have a medical solution for this the word help you

help u allow you to train for so she and you didn’t you do you said no that’s it

what I want to retire after that I got two more hip surgeries in

and then I explaining the case of the missing

the junction the procedure in the surgery all these things that still is so

so much pain doctor and I just need you tell me like do I really have a chance

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how to make it to Sochi in dachshunds yeah

you know you can milk be fine I know this procedure

can do we have to do they have to go in and out start a cortisone shots make sure

make sure we find the right area Ariel go in Lilburn of the nerve endings

things that area and the new real estate no problem and

the tribez Bank  clearly in Conway about that

and when I when I feel like I thought about it for long enough I decided

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decided that wasn’t fixing anything that was just burning of my sensation

face into the area looking to be a problem there was probably me

how to make it worse I just wouldn’t be able to feel it in I ask the doctor

Dr of cases do they do that and I come back

is great how long after the Olympics been so I can expect no lie

no longer be in pain in the specter set 3 to 5 years

really decided that um I was really happy

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McCreary did you slowly or Israel

MeetMe realize what you could be doing in search of training other athletes kind of like a a pay it forward

forward very slowly being injured long

healthy to take the time to about what I wanted to do next with my life

coaching actually had cross my mind until there was a coaching jobs available

it was offered so what what does your schedule consistent with far is the the training

reading portion of and how much can you do to the practice with these athlete

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cypress mulch run programs what I was in Marquette

Marquette when I was still in high school Most Wanted have math teacher store in high school

Ralph 2660 the 90’s

average route 3 where to get there at 615

is there by 630 to run the TV Drive ins and then we start

start pads at 7 weeks Kate from about 720 to 845

Emily go to school for today and they come back after school and be treated

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about 4631 think I want to ask you about um the

the Olympics with all this talk a potential terrorist activity in Sochi

just wondering when you went where ever you want to compete somewhere over seas are there was a safety products

protocol in Placer something you would a mili do if there’s any kind of thread like that

um no that is a great question because the world

turkey this year and I’m so there definite

definitely have to be a meeting between head coach nights about what the future because

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because it’s gonna be  when something is not as the serious

yes where you keep your medals in Augusta Georgia I don’t feel safe for Allah

long time that’s not my purse because I don’t know like people

really like to see a little light year

what does a really really heavy after a little while and I’m not talking

talking sticks out your phone after the Olympics

the house the Stars Katherine Ryder truck silver 1000 meters

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Peter skate in bronze in a 3000 meter relay in Vancouver in 2010

she spoke with Illinois public media is Jeff Prosser going to take a short break

and when we come back Jeff Cox with former Olympic figure skater and Peoria native

native map Savoy im Jim Meadows this is focus on wyll

welcome back to focus on wyll Meadows

the Winter Olympics are underweight in Sochi and we’re hearing from former Olympics

epic skaters to hail from central Illinois Peoria native map Savoy is an

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attorney with a Boston law firm b*** before that he was a figure skater

who competed in the 2006 Olympics in Turin Italy you talked with Jeff Palmer

Jeff boss about how he got started as a skater 59

when I started at thru taking private lessons in computing

um at the sport my parents think took me to the ring

the ring for the first time I was about 5 and they put my sister and me

in and of itself Park District classes skating

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vapor gymnastics classes um I think that I like most about skating

um with a combined artistry in rhythm

um something that that that I really like

really really found any other activity that I had

the last time  it was Peoria pretty good environment for that the do you have

the sillies you needed to accelerate it out yet. Was great

great come back about the way I was able to

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do on the train their everything I needed was at my fingertips

happily support parents are willing to drive me to pack

practice um and pick me up at school um bite it

but I think it was it it it was easier in Peoria that might have been if I got something

self do you have heroes going up at you watch the Olympics are the other competitions

oceans yeah I think it when I was ur of most aware of skating grandpa

cramping a sport Todd Eldredge was probably someone I looked up to a lot

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what kind of computer against em just to see was leaving the sport

work but I know I still look up to tonight so let’s talk about

some of the skills that the Bayou acquired I want to get an idea of training and having watch

watch it for years in the Olympics how long does it take to learn to do the jumps

how to practice that isn’t even before you even on the ice

yeah it varies um varies depending on the temperature today

burning and I think that jumped at frustrated me the most

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um I was running up a triple jump for the first time

um and you got your period where are you working on it working out and you don’t

everything going to land and then one on one day you do um

and that’s gotta find In N Out in my experience

trance 12 Florence of 1 level jobs like a triple jump um the rest of the day

rest of the temples coming here cause you know that your body is a better sense of off of the timing

um but that you should be getting a b***

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what took me I want to say I know about 9 years at

fat to feel like you need to reach a technical level that was pretty

pretty much my pic level from a for the rest of my career so

definitely I hit it that a sport that a lot of skill a lot of attention

what’s the most difficult won the most of the people are doing today I think of technically

glee well the most difficult anyone has landed

quadruple lots and is there a time that

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not sure if anybody like something on at the Olympics I think the most difficult

the Olympics is a quadruple South how much does Jump there for for revolution jobs

what was the hardest one that you were able to master

I never landed a quad income iPod repair shop in competition um I was wondering practice

occasionally last night but it was something that always other than me but I don’t really have any regrets about

about not having Leonard 1 overtime paid to take a lot of

what to wear and tear in your body and I was glad that I was able to use the last couple years

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the score to the focusing on developing as a performer or the chopper

what was your favorite performance. In US Championships Olympics or anywhere else

my paper for once was probably in the Olympics

now it was the best thing I never really skate add another word

will definitely mistakes in a program and it was that hide profile

file for skate it and I got it also felt rewarding

from a performance standpoint on even if I wanted to

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technically better in some situations I felt like I was with presenting a better

better um  picture of myself um at

as a performer um and I feel better today at

product process behind the music

when did I just watch was the US Nationals in 2005 using barbers

Barber’s Adagio for Strings and you seem like a dance

Dannemora dancer in some something skaters I watched that’s another one

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another one of my eyes I guess my favorite performances

how to program a while because it felt so good to perform at well I wanted to keep doing that

matt Lanter early did that again um at least

find me a b*** shaking music

music for programs is is difficult after you know the last

last several years um in my career I ended up lighting

pretty much my car for um near me and whatever direction

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Belfast mostly because he knew i strengthen my skating style

I really great musical cabulary much better than I had so

think about different options for for music different ways of teaching

Music Together the the program no I didn’t even really

recognize the time but I think my car for that adjustment

did the music and I did it on em in a way that was pretty different from Hell

how it’s actually sounds effects

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the performance of but it was it works really well

really well for skating I add writing to what you talking about

knowing when you complete the last time why did you respond to retire I had decided

why did I want to go to law school on before I enter my last year of c**

of competition Mexico admitted to the went to University of Illinois

years between 2003 and 2005 a ass

urban planning on playing with hair

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and in my last year um in graduate school ipod to law school

cool and I was accepted to Cornell and Tom

Cornell was General have to let me to for um for one year

how to start a law school during the year that I live in

qualifying for the Olympics so it was good to have that you’re of justice

just a kiss almost exclusively on skating and I was really happy with results

happy hideaway think but it was good to focus on

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spy really love them know I was going to be able to participate in anymore but then also that I had

that I had this next phase of my life to look forward to you were always on a career path

you got your eyes political science degree in a 2002 at Bradley and

nude at the skating with something I want to discard a hobby

did you know you had something else to do with that was your life that you couldn’t focus on the way

yeah it was important to me um

things like a logically help me I think during that time I like having different things

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things to focus on and training really only took about 45 hours of my day

my day so when you have a lot of the time I got another reason why

the reason why I train in central Illinois was great I am

Bradley University with my mom at work those really know you’re with with University

really close to my training center and also had a lot of depression

juice from so I was able to go to school full time and train

that something I know a lot of people that are able to do some really good that I was able to

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I want to be able to study and think about what I want

what I wanted to do after completing but I also wanted to say stuff Kayden and

as long as I could get sounds like you stay with his long as you can stay healthy in DeWitt

was that was there a point where you considered wedding in the earlier sure I think the umm

so when I applied to law school that was the

the 2004 2005 season and for the end of that to you I was wondering

is wondering whether I would want to compete with the next year was an Olympic year

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wasn’t that just about time wasn’t feeling strongly attached and

didn’t think my chances are that great making a ticking after talking with my family

family in a coach’s other people the sport I realize that they really wasn’t any reason

reason to rush off to school and that it would be worth it to get a one shot there’s been

controversial issue regarding Russians policies would come sit to get a citizens

listen Xanadu did some skating there and you are a gay man in America part early October

October last year I just wondered what does what you felt about the power

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I will see you when you were competing there in and out did you feel pressure did

keep that to yourself for some time with your career sure uh

so I was not out when I was computing and Mike

my experience is totally different than what it would be if I were competing now

the environment is probably a little different as well um I don’t know a lot about that

about the situation I don’t don’t really know about going to be applied over what does seem

the same scary for LGBT citizens for spectators athletes and

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and when I was computing that I never had any of the year

because I was I was not out of lead are at the promenade

how to turn to the difficulties were the people in Russia

um but certainly I hope that won the game tonight

after the game that people can be treated equally Indiana spec elite coaches

are there family is an and the citizens of other countries self

another question I’m just wondering when you went to Russia or whatever else was there ever a a safety

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safety products Holland place like after were some sudden news of something

dangerous happening if you knew how to respond earlier or where to go

go on fortunately I see if there was I did not know

the will say is that at the Olympics um there’s always been secured

security license Nancy Kerrigan

1994 National Bank US Figure Skating Act

security at just domestic events but want to get to the Olympics the level of security

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security about event is it even more extreme than a noticeable

um and it makes you feel good where there a even though its

what its very different trying to know that people are paying attention to the sorts of things

do you still get the skate not as much as I thought as I wish

wish um I think when I started working as a lawyer I wasn’t

I was prepared for the idea to microwave be above the main focus of my iPhone

InFocus is my life but I really thought about how hard it really is for people to sort of

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just maintainer daily exercise routine and something I admit they still

easier when to stay fit what if your job have to add people

can get to the gym I get to the rink more often than I thought I could

good at maths the voice who finished 7th and men’s single figure skating at the

2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy Meadows end it’s been you

years since I put on a pair of skates for anything but listening to these three Olympians

makes me feel like going back on the ice my cell phone tower at a very sedate pain

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