August 10, 2024 • 6 mins
Fresh of his Gold medal in the men's high jump - Hamish Kerr caught up with our man on the Ground - Michael Burgess to talk about that crazy night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're an Olympic gold medalist. Can you tell us how
that feels. It's an unbelievable feeling. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I can't quite put it into words. I think that,
you know, I knew I was capable of it. I
knew that the jumps were there. I've spoken about it
a lot, you know, I had to trust. I know
my team's good, I know my process is really good.
But to actually go out there and excip, especially the
way I did, I was an absolde dream.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Country and also an all time great celebration.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I mean I was kind of thinking about it and
I was like, no one's really ever run onto the field,
and I was kind of keeping half an eye on
the jablins.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I knew that it was over, so I knew that
there was my prime opportunity to jump out there.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So yeah, decided I'd shoot out and do a couple
of couple.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Of snow angels.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
What was going through mind homes before that, before that
final jump, I think just like just clarity.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think that was the big thing was.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You know, I knew the jump was in me, and
I knew that the trust was there.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I knew what I needed to do. I was a
little bit hurried.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And a few of those earlier ones, and so I
was just about just calming it down and just really
executing each foot the set.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And yeah, that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
What about the moment when you take off, you're through
the air and you know that you've done it, you
know you're over the bar.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
How does that moment feel? It just feels like it
goes on forever. It's you know, once, once I got
my foe down, I knew I was in the right place.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think that was the thing with probably those earlier jumps.
I knew that I was sort of trying all hard.
I knew that it was I wasn't quiet in the
right position. But for that last one, I knew that
I'd really nailed it. So yeah, it was almost a
bit of a blickery let for me, you know, to
be able to take off and spend their time in
the air going over the bar. But yeah, once once,
once I once I landed, it's you know, it's history.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So yeah, it's just an amazing film.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You get to the jump off. How how did that
conversation go? It was pretty quick bunch, to be honest. Look,
I think high jump fans and hands. Everyone out there
has been waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
For for a water. You know, people, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Been three years talking about the jump off, and I
loved being able to be in Tokyo and actually experienced
it for myself to his hand, and I think that
it was an amazing thing for the sport.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But I think that, you know, adding.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
To the history by by she having that jump off
was something that was really important to me.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I knew and I talked to my team.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
About it beforehand, and you know, it's on the on
the tiny, tiny, tiny.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Possibility of going to jump off.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I think for me, I was happier coming seconds and
a jump lost adding to that history than that I
would have been actually taking the shared goal. And I
think that's just you know, there's just credit to wanting
to add to that history and wanting to inspire people
back home that you know, it's it's obviously amazing to
share and it's amazing to enter that, but you know,
it's about how you make people feel, and it's about
(02:47):
how you how you inspire people.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And I think for you know.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Athletic spans and for the world to know what would
happen if you go to that jump off that's his
pod and for me, that's the ship that gives me tingles.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And yeah, so when that thirty thirty eight bar came
down and Anya was on, I was just a piece.
I knew that I was ready. I knew that I'd
prepared him easily, and the rest of sus stood.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You tell us about the emotions you're going through today,
especially to twenty seven. You know you're on the brink
of you're missing and it's all over. You just tell
us what you go through mentally today.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think I think if any thing, that you have
to go back three days to that qualifying.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Run, and.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That was that was the scariest shot of my life.
Like that, that's thirty team to two twenty. You know,
if I hadn't executed that, I wouldn't miss any again.
And so I think that that was the hardest jump
in my Olympics for sure, to go out there and
to be able.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
To put everything on the line, you know, all.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The hard work, all the belief, all the people who
you know they want to see me perform, and for
me as well, I was out there thinking, you know,
maybe maybe I'm not powerful, maybe maybe this is a
this is not a space that I can exist in.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And so to be able to dig deep.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Trust my process and trust myself and and kind of
look into that abyss and come out that the side
was was the hardest thing in the pomp.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And ever since then it's just been easy. That's a
pretty dark moment too. Twenty the other day then, Yeah,
but I mean, you know, that's that's what small gives us.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It makes you feel something, and it makes you it
makes you learn, you know the true potential of your
body and your mind, and it makes you makes you
do cool shit.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And so I think that was the thing was was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I earned the right to continue and I proved to
myself that I was good, And so I knew that
for me, you know, coming into this, this this final
I battled so hard to Polly that you know, I
was just gonna trust my process and and you know,
if it was it was pushed that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hard and and we came out the out side. Then
I think, why wouldn't I be able.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To do it with fine saw You run over the
grandstand to talk to your family friends, I know a
lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Them are here. Was there any special message from from
from your partner or your mum or dad? Or anyone.
I think, to be honest, they've probably more in shock
than I am.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So yeah, I haven't had a huge amount of coherent
words out of them yet that I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I will later on in the night. And what does
it mean you mentioned before?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What does it mean to this legacy of there hasn't
been many track and field goals? You know you're talking Snell,
Helbert Lovelocke, Evett, Williams, Walker Adams. It's a select bunch.
What does that mean to have Hami's care in that
in that group?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I think like for me, growing up, I loved athtics
and growing up I felt deeply connected to the sport
but at the same time.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Being a high judder because I didn't have anyone to
look up to.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And I think that that was, you know, that was
a part of it of athletics where you know, we
have always had very good.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Shotwaters, We've always had amazing distance runners.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But I think what I'm most proud about with not
just me, but the current profit athletes.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You know, we've got Zoey Hobbs, We've got Sam Tanner,
We've got Jolie Beamish, We've you know, we've got Tom
We've got eight Olivia now and the Trump that's it's
just such a wide range of Evince, and I think
that that's that's what I'm most proud of.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That is that Eva, I'm back home, you know, if
they want to pick up the sport, and I've got
people they can talk up to, and yeah, it's just
such a special thing to add to and I hope
that this will just continue to enterpet leasing.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
How are you gonna celebrate?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Probably a couple of hours away from getting quite cranked
into it, but yeah, it's it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's gonna be a long few weeks, sens for sure.
You're an Olympic gold medalist. Can you tell us how
that feels. It's an unbelievable feeling. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I can't quite put it into words. I think that,
you know, I knew I was capable of it. I
knew that the jumps were there. I've spoken about it
a lot, you know, I had to trust. I know
my team's good, I know my process is really good.
But to actually go out there and excip, especially the
way I did, I was an absolde dream.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Country and also an all time great celebration.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I mean I was kind of thinking about it and
I was like, no one's really ever run onto the field,
and I was kind of keeping half an eye on
the jablins.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I knew that it was over, so I knew that
there was my prime opportunity to jump out there.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So yeah, decided I'd shoot out and do a couple
of couple.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Of snow angels.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
What was going through mind homes before that, before that
final jump, I think just like just clarity.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think that was the big thing was.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You know, I knew the jump was in me, and
I knew that the trust was there.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I knew what I needed to do. I was a
little bit hurried.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And a few of those earlier ones, and so I
was just about just calming it down and just really
executing each foot the set.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And yeah, that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
What about the moment when you take off, you're through
the air and you know that you've done it, you
know you're over the bar.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
How does that moment feel? It just feels like it
goes on forever. It's you know, once, once I got
my foe down, I knew I was in the right place.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think that was the thing with probably those earlier jumps.
I knew that I was sort of trying all hard.
I knew that it was I wasn't quiet in the
right position. But for that last one, I knew that
I'd really nailed it. So yeah, it was almost a
bit of a blickery let for me, you know, to
be able to take off and spend their time in
the air going over the bar. But yeah, once once,
once I once I landed, it's you know, it's history.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So yeah, it's just an amazing film.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You get to the jump off. How how did that
conversation go? It was pretty quick bunch, to be honest. Look,
I think high jump fans and hands. Everyone out there
has been waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
For for a water. You know, people, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Been three years talking about the jump off, and I
loved being able to be in Tokyo and actually experienced
it for myself to his hand, and I think that
it was an amazing thing for the sport.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But I think that, you know, adding.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
To the history by by she having that jump off
was something that was really important to me.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I knew and I talked to my team.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
About it beforehand, and you know, it's on the on
the tiny, tiny, tiny.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Possibility of going to jump off.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I think for me, I was happier coming seconds and
a jump lost adding to that history than that I
would have been actually taking the shared goal. And I
think that's just you know, there's just credit to wanting
to add to that history and wanting to inspire people
back home that you know, it's it's obviously amazing to
share and it's amazing to enter that, but you know,
it's about how you make people feel, and it's about
(02:47):
how you how you inspire people.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And I think for you know.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Athletic spans and for the world to know what would
happen if you go to that jump off that's his
pod and for me, that's the ship that gives me tingles.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And yeah, so when that thirty thirty eight bar came
down and Anya was on, I was just a piece.
I knew that I was ready. I knew that I'd
prepared him easily, and the rest of sus stood.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You tell us about the emotions you're going through today,
especially to twenty seven. You know you're on the brink
of you're missing and it's all over. You just tell
us what you go through mentally today.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think I think if any thing, that you have
to go back three days to that qualifying.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Run, and.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That was that was the scariest shot of my life.
Like that, that's thirty team to two twenty. You know,
if I hadn't executed that, I wouldn't miss any again.
And so I think that that was the hardest jump
in my Olympics for sure, to go out there and
to be able.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
To put everything on the line, you know, all.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The hard work, all the belief, all the people who
you know they want to see me perform, and for
me as well, I was out there thinking, you know,
maybe maybe I'm not powerful, maybe maybe this is a
this is not a space that I can exist in.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And so to be able to dig deep.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Trust my process and trust myself and and kind of
look into that abyss and come out that the side
was was the hardest thing in the pomp.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And ever since then it's just been easy. That's a
pretty dark moment too. Twenty the other day then, Yeah,
but I mean, you know, that's that's what small gives us.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It makes you feel something, and it makes you it
makes you learn, you know the true potential of your
body and your mind, and it makes you makes you
do cool shit.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And so I think that was the thing was was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I earned the right to continue and I proved to
myself that I was good, And so I knew that
for me, you know, coming into this, this this final
I battled so hard to Polly that you know, I
was just gonna trust my process and and you know,
if it was it was pushed that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hard and and we came out the out side. Then
I think, why wouldn't I be able.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To do it with fine saw You run over the
grandstand to talk to your family friends, I know a
lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Them are here. Was there any special message from from
from your partner or your mum or dad? Or anyone.
I think, to be honest, they've probably more in shock
than I am.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So yeah, I haven't had a huge amount of coherent
words out of them yet that I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I will later on in the night. And what does
it mean you mentioned before?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What does it mean to this legacy of there hasn't
been many track and field goals? You know you're talking Snell,
Helbert Lovelocke, Evett, Williams, Walker Adams. It's a select bunch.
What does that mean to have Hami's care in that
in that group?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I think like for me, growing up, I loved athtics
and growing up I felt deeply connected to the sport
but at the same time.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Being a high judder because I didn't have anyone to
look up to.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And I think that that was, you know, that was
a part of it of athletics where you know, we
have always had very good.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Shotwaters, We've always had amazing distance runners.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But I think what I'm most proud about with not
just me, but the current profit athletes.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You know, we've got Zoey Hobbs, We've got Sam Tanner,
We've got Jolie Beamish, We've you know, we've got Tom
We've got eight Olivia now and the Trump that's it's
just such a wide range of Evince, and I think
that that's that's what I'm most proud of.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That is that Eva, I'm back home, you know, if
they want to pick up the sport, and I've got
people they can talk up to, and yeah, it's just
such a special thing to add to and I hope
that this will just continue to enterpet leasing.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
How are you gonna celebrate?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Probably a couple of hours away from getting quite cranked
into it, but yeah, it's it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's gonna be a long few weeks, sens for sure.
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