Golden Moments: Libby Trickett

In the lead up to The Games we're taking you through 10 of our favourite Gold Medal Moment's.. Hear the inspiring Libby Trickett relive her first ever win in Beijing!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. We
are counting down to the Games in Paris, which kicks
off in Paris, the opening ceremony Friday night, which will
be three point thirty am us here Saturday morning. So
make sure you all set your alarms up there. We

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have some sort of interpretive dance, don't they. There's hours
and hours of nonsense. Yeah, if you wake up at
six am, it will still be going, It'll still be
going on, the big going and this is to symbolize
the French beginning, the French love of onions, and this
is to symbolize it goes on. Then you get all

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the countries wandering in that big megadome, all filming on
their phones and like we're watching it. The world is
watching right now. You don't need to film it as
well on your phone, all right. So over the next
couple of shows, and we're counting down to the Games
in Paris, and we've got a load of Australian Old
Medal winners sharing their golden moments today. Libby Trickets Christian

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O'Connell's golden moments coming down to the Games in Paris.
Libby Tricket winning her first individual gold medal in the
one hundred meter butterfly at the two thousand and eight
Beijing Games.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I don't think I've ever been more nervous before a
race than I was before that one hundred meters butterfly.
I remember having to find the bins along the walk
to the marshaling area because I was afraid I was
going to be physically sick. And when I walked out
onto pool deck, it was like I walked through this
most beautiful I can only kind of describe it as

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like a curtain of calm. I just knew that everything
was going to be okay. I knew that if I
did what I had trained my body to do. I
knew that if I had, if I put together the
race process that I knew that I had trained for
for years before this, that it would all be okay, okay.
And it was the most powerful feeling, you know. I

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stood up on the blocks and the start as gun
went and it felt like I don't know, it's hard
to describe, but I can only kind of describe it
as a feeling like I was floating. I was doing
what my body had been trained to do. I could
feel the water I could feel the power that I
was generating, but there was no thoughts amongst all of that,

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And I remember touching the wall and turning around and
seeing the number one next to my name, my name.
It was such an interesting experience because you imagine that
the first emotion that you would feel would be joy
or elation, But first and foremost was relief, and then

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the joy came later. But the first feeling was I'm
so grateful that I was able to put together the
race that I knew I was capable of.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
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