August 10, 2024 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A very special salute to the 2024 Summer Olympics with four-time Gold Medalist Greg Louganis AND three-time Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Come on, I am six forty mister moo Kelly. Here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
As the Olympics come to a close this weekend, we
wanted to close out this week with two of our
favorite and classic Olympic conversations.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It just seems right this hour.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We'll listen back to when the great great Lugainis drop
me a line, and then we'll close out the show
with three time Olympic gold medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas when
she called into the show, what's an Olympics without actual
gold medal Olympians? First up, my conversation with four time
(01:02):
Olympic gold medalist diver Greg.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Louganis my next guest.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Is arguably the greatest diver in history, winning gold medals
at both the nineteen eighty four and nineteen eighty eight Games.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And if you know your history.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He could have and should have won gold at the
nineteen eighty Olympics in Moscow, but the United States boycotted
and he even participated in the nineteen seventy six Olympics.
Greg luganis, Mister luganis, It is a pleasure to talk
to you again.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Good? Do you hear you?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We've talked once in person before, and you have this
personality which lights up a rump.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I can see your smile right now. I mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Because you've had all sorts of adversity in life and
yet you keep this smile.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How is life for you these days?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Life is good. Life is good. It's exciting at its
are happening, you know, after you know everything that we've
been through and all that. So yeah, so life is good.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Take me into the mindset of not only you as
an Olympian, but other Olympians in the sense of do
you rather wish that you could compete early in the
Olympics or rather wait till later in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
What's the psychology behind it?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Well, you know what, it's interesting because the diving was
usually later in the Olympics. In seventy six, I went
to that opening ceremonies, but that was the only opening
ceremonies that I went to because diving was towards the
end and I was afraid, like, if I go to
the opening ceremonies, I get all hyped up and have
an incredible week of training and then and then be
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flat for the competition. So we were very mindful about
the scheduling because we want to peak at the right time. Yeah,
so it's really really critical, and you know, working closely
with my coach Roant O'Brien, who's really wonderful tapping into
the way that I would perform, because I would I
see myself as a performer. I'm not a competitor, so
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it's quite a different approach.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
What goes through your mind in the days leading up
to your first event and even the moments leading up
to your first event.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Well, I had a routine. I would go through my dives,
you know, when I would visualize my dives the night
before so I could sleep, you know, so I could,
you know, just relax enough to get a decent night sleep.
But when you're visualizing at that time, you know you're
ready for performance, so it's it's real time, so your
visualization is in real time or faster. So I would
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go through my visualization, you know, I'd have the whole
routine kind of etched out. Also, I wouldn't always visualize perfection,
you know, if I was generally back on the board
on a dive, or has a particular quirk in my takeoffs,
and I would visualize that and make the adjustments necessary
to be successful, because really it's about success. Perfection is
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something to strive for, but it's never obtainable, you know.
And then also with diving, a dive takes less than
three seconds, so you have multiple guys that you have
to hit. That's what wins the competition. And each dive
is a new creation. It's like a snowflake. You can't
create it again because you know, every takeoff's different, you know,
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in every situation is different, and you're doing the best
you can with whatever the situation that you're met with.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
As an outsider, it would seem to me that springboard
would be more difficult than platform, if only because the
springboard has a degree of variance. It may not feel
the same. It may be a different board and a
different pool and so forth. It may react differently to
you on a given day. Is that a fair assessment
it is?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Springboard has its own little personality. I mean, you know
the way that it's worn in, you know, the speed deflection,
all of that goes into the personality of the springboard,
and it moves ten minute platform it's always a steady surface.
It's only ten meters above the waters, so you know,
it's a lot easier as far as being consistent, you know,
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with your takeoffs and that sort of thing. So yeah, definitely,
springboard is much more challenging.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I watched you many years and for me sitting at
home watching, I was always nervous for you. When you're
up on that platform, or you're up getting ready to
start your movement out to the end of the springboard.
Do you hear people around you? Are you aware of
your surroundings at all?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know, every situation is different. At World Championships, I
mean I was aware of every rivet on the board.
It's like the only thing that existed was my coach,
the springboard, and the water. Everything else was kind of
a blur. But when I was at the eighty four
Olympic Games, it was totally different. I mean, Mayor Tom
Bradley's coming into the stadium late and I said, hey, Tom,
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you're late, and said we're trying to see Greg, you know,
And and I was aware of the you know lady
with the flowered hat, you know, five rows over, a
third row up. You know, it's just like I was
aware of everything, but that was the experience. Every experience
is different and you have to be able to adjust
to that experience, you know, because you're never able to
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like repeat what you've done in the past, which passes past.
What you're doing is structuring something that is brand new
territory and just being a part of that, being in
the moment. That's what they talk about when they're talking
about flow and being in the moment, and you know,
that's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
My guess right now is four time Olympic gold medalist
Greg luganis we're talking about his experience at the Olympics.
You started on a trampoline many years ago, and there's
a gymnastic element to diving. I want to put this
question in this box. Simone Biles has pushed her sport
of gymnastics, often doing moves that have never been done
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in the sport. She's pushed her sport along. Do you
see the same thing happening in diving in the sense
of competitors today. Are they pushing the sport the boundaries
and limits of the human body, or the number or
just the types of moves that people are trying to do?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Sure. I mean, now you know, kids are doing front
four and it has that's commonplace where you know, we
were just doing Front three and a half and you know,
they really are stepping it up. And that's a part
of the progression, you know, that is you know, you're
never stagnant, you're always progressing. You know, it's really exciting
to see the you know, the growth and development and
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the evolution.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
On the other side of the break, we'll have more
of my classic conversation with four time Olympic gold medalist
Greg Louganis. It's later with Mo Kelly Cafi and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
With Kelly. Six out of the pool was assisted.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Then went with the doctors into a training room and
they worked on it and and a strong medical staff
was there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The best.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
He has doctor Jim Puffer, who is the head of
Sports Medicine for the United States Olympic Committee. He has
doctor Ben Rubin who is the head of sports medicine
for United States Diving. And he has his former coach,
doctor Sammy Lee. And of course it's President Cornado and
Iron O'Brien.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Now they did take stitches, they checked him over. The
decision has been made. He will continue in the competition
five or better, you will make it into the finals.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yes, what if I am six forty? We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app who were listening to the moments
and minutes after my guests. Greg Luganis hit his head
on the diving board during a dive in the nineteen
eighty eight sol Olympics. He completed the preliminaries despite the injury.
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That's the crazy thing. He had a concussion and finished
and went on to win the gold. But it sounds
a whole lot better when Greg Luganis tells the story. So, Greg,
if you can take me back to that moment where
you did hit your head. What immediately was rushing through
your mind?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What was immediately rushing through my mind? Well, taking off
the board and you know it's going to be closed
because the angle that I came off the board. But
usually you're worried about hitting your hand or your arm
or something. So I made sure when I came out
of the dive, I reached wide so my arms wouldn't
hit them forward. And then I heard this big hollow
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thud and I went crashing in the water, and I
was thinking, what the hell was that, and I realized
it was my head. And so the first emotion that
I felt was I was embarrassed. I was like thinking,
oh my god, how do I get out of this
pool without anybody seeing me? Because the eyes of the
world are watching, right, And then I got really angry
with myself because I'm supposed to be a pretty good diver,
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and pretty good divers don't do stuff like that. Because
the six months prior to that Olympic Games, I was
diagnosed HIV positive. So I said that I was paralyzed
by fear. I didn't know what my responsibility was because
I was in a country that had been known my
HIV status, I would have been allowed into the country.
You know, at that time, there was not a whole
lot of compassion surrounding HIV aids. So yeah, so it
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was kind of scary time. But also, I mean, under
that kind of pressure, looking it was kind of a
blessing because I was the favorite going into that competition.
You know, everybody was expecting me to win two gold medals,
and then all of a sudden, I hit my handboard
and it's human nature for the underdog, and all of
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a sudden, in that split second, I became the underdog,
so and it also kind of was kind of a
wake up call for my coach, and I just kind
of pay attention that, you know, nothing is ever guaranteed.
It's about doing the work, you know, to get through
because it was one dive at a time, you know,
just focused, one dive at a time.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I remember watching that on TV.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I remember seeing you getting your head stitched up on
live TV for everyone to see. And I know the
movies in process they're making of your life, and I'm
quite sure it's going to be great, but I remember
seeing it firsthand.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I didn't think that you were going to continue.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Was there ever any consideration or discussion about whether you
would continue with that point?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I got some zeros on that dive.
So I thought I was totally out of the competition
because I don't pay attention to you know, what other
divers are doing, the scores and you know, point totals
and all that, and however it's stacking. I don't pay
attention to that. So I just assumed I was out
of the running. And so you know, when my coach
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ran O'Brien, he came to me and he said, look,
you don't have to get back up there. You can
be done. You don't have to get back up there,
And no matter what you do, I'll support you one
hundred percent. I'm behind you. And it was kind of
a knee jerk reaction and response that I turned to
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him and I said, you know, I feel like we've
worked too long and hard to get here, and I
don't want to give up without a fight. I had
the option. He gave me the option, and it was
a collective decision that I would continue. And a lot
of people say, you know, how did you get over that.
I didn't have time to get over that. In order
to get over something, you have to process it, and
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you have to figure out what you know, what you
did wrong, process how that happened, all of that stuff.
I didn't have time. All I could do is set
it aside like it never happened. And he said, do
the rest of your dives. It was just a flute
that happened, me hitting my head, and he said, just
do the dives like you've been doing in training and
you'll be fine. You'll get through the prelims. Because I
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had two more dives after that, and I reversed one
and half of three and a half twist and then
my reverse three and a half, and then fortunately the
finals were in the morning because I spent a sleepless
night trying to figure out what I did wrong, and
I couldn't figure it out and it was just miserable.
So fortunately the finals were in the morning, So after
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not having a whole lot of sleep, I don't know
that I would have had the energy to make it
to the evening if we had to compete in the
In the evening.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You're bearing the lead. You won the gold medal by
twenty five points. You blew away the fee. Despite that
setback in the competition, it wasn't even close.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, you know, we started the finals. You know, it's
with each dive in the finals, I just got more
confident with each dive, so it really kind of helped me,
you know, continue that momentum. But hitting my head on
the springboard, it really forced my coach, rono' brian and
I to really focus in on each one dive at
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a time in that moment, the best dud in that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Moment on the other side of the break.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
We'll finish listening back to my classic conversation with four
time Olympic gold medalist diver Greg Luganis It's Later with
Mo Kelly, KFI and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
KFI and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It's Later with Mo Kelly, and Tonight we're closing out
the week and the Olympics with two of our favorite
Olympics conversations. Right now, we've been hearing from Greg Lugatis,
five time Olympic medalists, four time gold medalists and one silver.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite moments in my
career hearing his story from the legend himself. Mister Legatis,
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let me come back to you. You're also doing some
things now as far as mentoring and coaching and working
with Red Bull. Tell me about that please.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah, I'm sports stretcher for the Red Bull Cliff Having
World Series and so yeah, we just had our first
up was in France, and and then we've got five
more steps through the year.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Tell me some of the differences between cliff diving and
platform diving other than the obvious.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, okay, the women are diving from twenty meters. I
dive from ten meters, so it's twice as fide as
I would dive from. And then the men are diving
from twenty seven meters and they do in some of
the stuffs, we do have a natural cliff that they
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are diving off of, and so I mean, it's it
really is incredible and the tricks that the kids are
doing are unbelievable. I mean, it's basically the types of
guys that you're going to see at the Olympic Games,
but you add a half somersault with a half twist
because they're going in feet first rather than headfirst. So
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it really I mean, the technique has really come so far,
and you know, the you know, the you know, the
athletes are just really really incredible along those lines.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Take us inside these Tokyo Games. I know you're going
to be watching. I know you have a vested interest,
and not only what America does, but individual participants give
us a nugget or something to look for to realize
how a competition may go or some inside inside as
to what may happen in this competition, be it platform
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or springboard.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Well, we you know, we now have synchronized diving, so
that's you know, that's one of the events. Uh, you know,
we didn't have that when while I was competing. Also, uh,
there's there's a stronger emphasis for the high degree of
difficulty dives, a much more difficult dive. So you'll see
you know, foreign and a halves and you know, and
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just some incredible you know, tumbling and twisting dives that
you know that are just you know, unbelievable. So so
the stress is more on a degree of difficulty, so
you'll be on the lookout for that. And we also
have some young divers who made some of the teams
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from the various countries, and so it could be a
very young people on the podium.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What's it like, I should say, what do you remember
from any of your metal stand ceremonies? Is it the
national anthem? Is it bases in the crowd? Is it
all of that? What do you remember? What's it like
when they put a gold medal around your neck?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Well, okay, my first Olympics was in nineteen seventy six.
I was a silver medalist at the nineteen seventy six
Olympic Games. And that was a tough one because I
went there to win. I didn't go there to take second.
I was dining with doctor Sammy Lee, and he won
two golds in forty eight and fifty two, and then
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he coached Bobby Webster to win two gold medals for
the US in sixty sixty four, and then Klaus Tibiassi
was going for his third Olympic gold medal from Italy,
and so my sole purpose on this earth was to
prevent Klaus from winning that gold medal. That I failed.
So that was that was devastating. That was really really hard,
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and that was that was That was a difficult awards ceremony.
I was not a happy camper, but in eighty four
it was. It was interesting because like I don't remember
the three meter springboard competition award ceremony very much because
my mind I was already thinking about ten meter platform
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because I had another event coming up. Well I really,
I mean if you watch the metal ceremonies, you can
you can see I'm pretty reserved in the in the
three meter springboard because I'm thinking about the ten meter platform.
And then when ten meter platform came and they put
that metal around my neck, I mean I just I
lost it there. It was just you know, the floodgates
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were you know, were poorn just because I get it
and then and then eighty eight was just such a
totally different experience because, oh my god, that was my last,
you know, my last competitive dives. I mean, I knew
that in my heart, but I was afraid to tell
anybody because I didn't want to chinks anything. But I
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knew in my heart that those were my last competitive
dives and that it was just it really was emotional.
And also, I'm a firm believer you don't achieve greatness
on your own. And my coach, Ron O'Brien was there
for me. I couldn't have gotten through that Olympic Games
without him after hitting my head on the board and
coming back and him just being in my corner, you know,
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because he was going through a lot too, because he
lost his mother. His mother passed right before the competition started.
So there was a lot of emotion that was you know,
that was mixed in with that eighty eight Olympic experience.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Is it fair to say that after all these years
and deck the gold medal that you didn't win still
weighs on your mind or still impacts you more than
the gold medals you did win.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't think about it a whole lot. It's funny
because I have a dear, dear friend, Susan Garrett. She said,
you know, she said, oh, Greg hu gay Is, he
is a solo medalist and six time Olympic gold medals
said to his end, he gave me two gold medals, said, oh,
you would have won an eighty. Oh my god. But
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you know it was you know, it's really sweet. But
I don't I don't think of it a whole lot
because you know, it is what it is, and uh,
you know, and I had a real good run, you know, uh,
World Championships, Pan American Games. I mean, there's a lot
of records that you know that I that that I hold,
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that still stand. It's pretty incredible. I I'm proud of
what I've been able to do.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Pretty credible. Indeed, he is Greg Luganis.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Four times, not six, but four time Olympic gold medalists.
Mister Leuganis, has been an honor to speak with you
once again. Thank you for your insight, thank you for
representing USA so very well. And I do believe you
would have won those two gold medals in nineteen eighty
as well, So don't be mad. That someone just gives
you an extra two gold medals.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
You're awesome, You're so cool. It's great talking with you.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
You're listening to some of my favorite Olympic conversations over
the years. Next up is three time Olympic gold medalist
gymnast Gabby Douglas. It's Later with Moe Kelly. Can if
I and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
KFI six More stimulating talk mo Kelly here. Gabby Douglas
has three Olympic gold medals to her name. That much
most everyone knows, but what is less often discussed is
the hard work and discipline needed to reach such goals.
Young people all around the country are beginning to wind
down their summers and prepare to go to school, and
to that end, Gabby Douglas has a tip or two
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to help students and parents alike hit their stride in
the new year. Gabby Douglas, It's a pleasure to speak
with you. How are you today?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I'm good?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
How about you?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I'm just actually tickled to be able to just speak
with you, because obviously seeing your exploits, I can only
imagine the hard work which preceded it over the years.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, you.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Began formal gymnastics training at age six, and by age
eight you won your first major title. What was your
training routine like in between those benchmarks?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Oh? Well, thank you so much. And like you said,
I got started. I just had a passion for gymastics.
I was about age six, and then I got introduced
to the Olympics when I was about age nine, and
ever since then, I just started setting goals for myself.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
My mom always.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Taught me and my siblings to set goals for yourself,
and it was so key because once I saw and
visualize myself in the moment, my.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Career took off.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
But when you're six years old, did you think about
the long range plan or was it just something that
you enjoyed to do and you found that you had an.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Aptitude for I was so young at six years old,
and I just had a love for gymnastics, and I
didn't really know what anything was. I just went out
and flipped and I didn't know about the Olympics or
about any competitions until I was introduced to it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
In two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But I just had fun.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I was just a little girl.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
As a kid.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
We all know that that type of training takes discipline
and dedication, but where did you find the time to
apply yourself academically?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I was homeschooled, where that was so key and helped
me out so much because I was always in the
gym and I was just set goals for myself. I
wouldn't allow myself to get overwhelmed because I know it
can be overwhelming with sports and studies. You just can't
let yourself be overwhelmed. And that's why I encourage young
kids and even parents. That's I'm here post a brand
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today to tell them to write out your goals. If
you don't have a goalboard, I suggest you get one
because it helped me three great metals later. It helped me,
so I encourage you to get a goalboard.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
That fascinates me because you, unlike me, you are someone
who grew up in the electronic era, but you still
write things down as part of your organization.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
How did that come about?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I still write things down, and I'm a visual learner,
so that helps me out a lot. And I like
to see things and then try them out, so it
definitely helps when you see it and then you just
imagine yourself in a moment and you make it stick.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Since you said that make it sticky, you are working
with the Posted brand in terms of getting students and
even parents for that matter, back in the habit or
into the habit of writing things down. Now, how do
you use post it in what you do on a
day to day basis?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I love to use post it supersticky notes, and they're
really essential because they're transferable. You can put them in
your journal. I put them on my wall and on
my goalboard. You can put them wherever you can see them.
I mean you can even like screenshot it and put
it out of the screensaver. So that's how that's how
I use the using super sticky notes.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well see, I'm gonna need a little bit of help
from you, Gabby Douglas, because i need a little more
organization in my life. And I'm a person and maybe
I'm like others. If you give me a bunch of
posted notes, they may end up all over the house,
all over the floor. So how do you beyond the
press with that?
Speaker 7 (26:51):
That's fine as long as you see your goal But
you see him on the wall, you can see him
on the ceiling. As you walk out through this door.
I mean, I mean, I don't think that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Nah, I get it, okay. And that goes back to
the visualization.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
The more that you see at the reinforcement of those goals,
then you are on the path to achieving them.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Can we talk about the color? Though the color is
super viran like, it's so inviting.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Do you have a preference in color?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
For me, always like the purple and gold, which goes
back to my fraternity. But you have a maybe a
different color that you prefer. You have to get the pink,
get the pink.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Ones white pink. How am I supposed to use pink everywhere?
I'm a forty seven year old man. True blue blue
is a way to be okay?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
All right, then we can meet halfway In terms of blue.
We were talking about you meeting your goals if you
just tuning in them. Speaking with three time Olympic gold
medalists Gabby Douglas, Geab, we were talking about you and
your goals. But after the Olympics, how do you frame
your life in terms of goals that you would like
to reach?
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Since I am enjoying the summer and currently not training
at the moment and spending a lot of time with
family friends. I still have a goal board because I
am still competitive and I still want to achieve things
in life, so I put them on my goal board
and basically just what I want to do and what
I want to achieve acting. I do a lot of
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different hobbies other than gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
When you say you're not training at this point in time,
what does your training regimen look like if you're not
in a competition mode.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
I still work out. I still go running because I
really don't like running.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I give me both.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
I go hiking, which is beautiful, and swimming.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Is there anything that you find yourself that if you
were not specifically going the gymnastics route, if you were
to do it over again, is there another sport that
you think that you could have been competitive in?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
This is like a.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Very like hard question.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Sometimes. See I tell people running, but I hate running,
so that would not work out. Then my mom said
I should have been a comedian.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Oh you got so you got jokes?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
No, I don't have jokes.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You say that possibly running, then why not? Just because
you didn't like it doesn't mean that you couldn't have
been very successful at it.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Could we then possibly see you still connected to sports
in some way in terms of maybe coaching gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I do coach a little.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I do a lot of Facebook lives. I just kind
of coach through social media and I coach like different
gymnastics camps.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh that's outstanding.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
So if you were to give some advice to a
young and budding gymnast, there's probably one who's listening right now.
Before I let you go, Gabby Douglas, what would you
say to that beginner, that young person who really wants
to go your way in terms of really seeing how
they can reach their potential in gymnastics specifically, one.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
I would have to say, definitely, write out your goal
and what you want to achieve. It helped me, I'm
telling you helped me so much in my career and
out that young just have fun and be in the
moment and then just enjoy what you do and there
you have it.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
She is Gabby Douglas, three time Olympic gold medalists. Thank
you so much for coming on KFI today and I
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Thank you so much.
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As the Olympics come to a close this weekend, we
wanted to close out this week with two of our
favorite and classic Olympic conversations.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It just seems right this hour.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We'll listen back to when the great great Lugainis drop
me a line, and then we'll close out the show
with three time Olympic gold medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas when
she called into the show, what's an Olympics without actual
gold medal Olympians? First up, my conversation with four time
(01:02):
Olympic gold medalist diver Greg.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Louganis my next guest.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Is arguably the greatest diver in history, winning gold medals
at both the nineteen eighty four and nineteen eighty eight Games.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And if you know your history.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He could have and should have won gold at the
nineteen eighty Olympics in Moscow, but the United States boycotted
and he even participated in the nineteen seventy six Olympics.
Greg luganis, Mister luganis, It is a pleasure to talk
to you again.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Good? Do you hear you?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We've talked once in person before, and you have this
personality which lights up a rump.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I can see your smile right now. I mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Because you've had all sorts of adversity in life and
yet you keep this smile.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How is life for you these days?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Life is good. Life is good. It's exciting at its
are happening, you know, after you know everything that we've
been through and all that. So yeah, so life is good.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Take me into the mindset of not only you as
an Olympian, but other Olympians in the sense of do
you rather wish that you could compete early in the
Olympics or rather wait till later in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
What's the psychology behind it?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Well, you know what, it's interesting because the diving was
usually later in the Olympics. In seventy six, I went
to that opening ceremonies, but that was the only opening
ceremonies that I went to because diving was towards the
end and I was afraid, like, if I go to
the opening ceremonies, I get all hyped up and have
an incredible week of training and then and then be
(02:43):
flat for the competition. So we were very mindful about
the scheduling because we want to peak at the right time. Yeah,
so it's really really critical, and you know, working closely
with my coach Roant O'Brien, who's really wonderful tapping into
the way that I would perform, because I would I
see myself as a performer. I'm not a competitor, so
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it's quite a different approach.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
What goes through your mind in the days leading up
to your first event and even the moments leading up
to your first event.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Well, I had a routine. I would go through my dives,
you know, when I would visualize my dives the night
before so I could sleep, you know, so I could,
you know, just relax enough to get a decent night sleep.
But when you're visualizing at that time, you know you're
ready for performance, so it's it's real time, so your
visualization is in real time or faster. So I would
(03:39):
go through my visualization, you know, I'd have the whole
routine kind of etched out. Also, I wouldn't always visualize perfection,
you know, if I was generally back on the board
on a dive, or has a particular quirk in my takeoffs,
and I would visualize that and make the adjustments necessary
to be successful, because really it's about success. Perfection is
(04:02):
something to strive for, but it's never obtainable, you know.
And then also with diving, a dive takes less than
three seconds, so you have multiple guys that you have
to hit. That's what wins the competition. And each dive
is a new creation. It's like a snowflake. You can't
create it again because you know, every takeoff's different, you know,
(04:26):
in every situation is different, and you're doing the best
you can with whatever the situation that you're met with.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
As an outsider, it would seem to me that springboard
would be more difficult than platform, if only because the
springboard has a degree of variance. It may not feel
the same. It may be a different board and a
different pool and so forth. It may react differently to
you on a given day. Is that a fair assessment
it is?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Springboard has its own little personality. I mean, you know
the way that it's worn in, you know, the speed deflection,
all of that goes into the personality of the springboard,
and it moves ten minute platform it's always a steady surface.
It's only ten meters above the waters, so you know,
it's a lot easier as far as being consistent, you know,
(05:16):
with your takeoffs and that sort of thing. So yeah, definitely,
springboard is much more challenging.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I watched you many years and for me sitting at
home watching, I was always nervous for you. When you're
up on that platform, or you're up getting ready to
start your movement out to the end of the springboard.
Do you hear people around you? Are you aware of
your surroundings at all?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know, every situation is different. At World Championships, I
mean I was aware of every rivet on the board.
It's like the only thing that existed was my coach,
the springboard, and the water. Everything else was kind of
a blur. But when I was at the eighty four
Olympic Games, it was totally different. I mean, Mayor Tom
Bradley's coming into the stadium late and I said, hey, Tom,
(06:03):
you're late, and said we're trying to see Greg, you know,
And and I was aware of the you know lady
with the flowered hat, you know, five rows over, a
third row up. You know, it's just like I was
aware of everything, but that was the experience. Every experience
is different and you have to be able to adjust
to that experience, you know, because you're never able to
(06:25):
like repeat what you've done in the past, which passes past.
What you're doing is structuring something that is brand new
territory and just being a part of that, being in
the moment. That's what they talk about when they're talking
about flow and being in the moment, and you know,
that's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
My guess right now is four time Olympic gold medalist
Greg luganis we're talking about his experience at the Olympics.
You started on a trampoline many years ago, and there's
a gymnastic element to diving. I want to put this
question in this box. Simone Biles has pushed her sport
of gymnastics, often doing moves that have never been done
(07:08):
in the sport. She's pushed her sport along. Do you
see the same thing happening in diving in the sense
of competitors today. Are they pushing the sport the boundaries
and limits of the human body, or the number or
just the types of moves that people are trying to do?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Sure. I mean, now you know, kids are doing front
four and it has that's commonplace where you know, we
were just doing Front three and a half and you know,
they really are stepping it up. And that's a part
of the progression, you know, that is you know, you're
never stagnant, you're always progressing. You know, it's really exciting
to see the you know, the growth and development and
(07:45):
the evolution.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
On the other side of the break, we'll have more
of my classic conversation with four time Olympic gold medalist
Greg Louganis. It's later with Mo Kelly Cafi and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
With Kelly. Six out of the pool was assisted.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Then went with the doctors into a training room and
they worked on it and and a strong medical staff
was there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The best.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
He has doctor Jim Puffer, who is the head of
Sports Medicine for the United States Olympic Committee. He has
doctor Ben Rubin who is the head of sports medicine
for United States Diving. And he has his former coach,
doctor Sammy Lee. And of course it's President Cornado and
Iron O'Brien.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Now they did take stitches, they checked him over. The
decision has been made. He will continue in the competition
five or better, you will make it into the finals.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yes, what if I am six forty? We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app who were listening to the moments
and minutes after my guests. Greg Luganis hit his head
on the diving board during a dive in the nineteen
eighty eight sol Olympics. He completed the preliminaries despite the injury.
(09:25):
That's the crazy thing. He had a concussion and finished
and went on to win the gold. But it sounds
a whole lot better when Greg Luganis tells the story. So, Greg,
if you can take me back to that moment where
you did hit your head. What immediately was rushing through
your mind?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What was immediately rushing through my mind? Well, taking off
the board and you know it's going to be closed
because the angle that I came off the board. But
usually you're worried about hitting your hand or your arm
or something. So I made sure when I came out
of the dive, I reached wide so my arms wouldn't
hit them forward. And then I heard this big hollow
(10:08):
thud and I went crashing in the water, and I
was thinking, what the hell was that, and I realized
it was my head. And so the first emotion that
I felt was I was embarrassed. I was like thinking,
oh my god, how do I get out of this
pool without anybody seeing me? Because the eyes of the
world are watching, right, And then I got really angry
with myself because I'm supposed to be a pretty good diver,
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and pretty good divers don't do stuff like that. Because
the six months prior to that Olympic Games, I was
diagnosed HIV positive. So I said that I was paralyzed
by fear. I didn't know what my responsibility was because
I was in a country that had been known my
HIV status, I would have been allowed into the country.
You know, at that time, there was not a whole
lot of compassion surrounding HIV aids. So yeah, so it
(10:53):
was kind of scary time. But also, I mean, under
that kind of pressure, looking it was kind of a
blessing because I was the favorite going into that competition.
You know, everybody was expecting me to win two gold medals,
and then all of a sudden, I hit my handboard
and it's human nature for the underdog, and all of
(11:14):
a sudden, in that split second, I became the underdog,
so and it also kind of was kind of a
wake up call for my coach, and I just kind
of pay attention that, you know, nothing is ever guaranteed.
It's about doing the work, you know, to get through
because it was one dive at a time, you know,
just focused, one dive at a time.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I remember watching that on TV.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I remember seeing you getting your head stitched up on
live TV for everyone to see. And I know the
movies in process they're making of your life, and I'm
quite sure it's going to be great, but I remember
seeing it firsthand.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I didn't think that you were going to continue.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Was there ever any consideration or discussion about whether you
would continue with that point?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I got some zeros on that dive.
So I thought I was totally out of the competition
because I don't pay attention to you know, what other
divers are doing, the scores and you know, point totals
and all that, and however it's stacking. I don't pay
attention to that. So I just assumed I was out
of the running. And so you know, when my coach
(12:20):
ran O'Brien, he came to me and he said, look,
you don't have to get back up there. You can
be done. You don't have to get back up there,
And no matter what you do, I'll support you one
hundred percent. I'm behind you. And it was kind of
a knee jerk reaction and response that I turned to
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him and I said, you know, I feel like we've
worked too long and hard to get here, and I
don't want to give up without a fight. I had
the option. He gave me the option, and it was
a collective decision that I would continue. And a lot
of people say, you know, how did you get over that.
I didn't have time to get over that. In order
to get over something, you have to process it, and
(13:01):
you have to figure out what you know, what you
did wrong, process how that happened, all of that stuff.
I didn't have time. All I could do is set
it aside like it never happened. And he said, do
the rest of your dives. It was just a flute
that happened, me hitting my head, and he said, just
do the dives like you've been doing in training and
you'll be fine. You'll get through the prelims. Because I
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had two more dives after that, and I reversed one
and half of three and a half twist and then
my reverse three and a half, and then fortunately the
finals were in the morning because I spent a sleepless
night trying to figure out what I did wrong, and
I couldn't figure it out and it was just miserable.
So fortunately the finals were in the morning, So after
(13:47):
not having a whole lot of sleep, I don't know
that I would have had the energy to make it
to the evening if we had to compete in the
In the evening.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You're bearing the lead. You won the gold medal by
twenty five points. You blew away the fee. Despite that
setback in the competition, it wasn't even close.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, you know, we started the finals. You know, it's
with each dive in the finals, I just got more
confident with each dive, so it really kind of helped me,
you know, continue that momentum. But hitting my head on
the springboard, it really forced my coach, rono' brian and
I to really focus in on each one dive at
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a time in that moment, the best dud in that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Moment on the other side of the break.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
We'll finish listening back to my classic conversation with four
time Olympic gold medalist diver Greg Luganis It's Later with
Mo Kelly, KFI and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
KFI and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It's Later with Mo Kelly, and Tonight we're closing out
the week and the Olympics with two of our favorite
Olympics conversations. Right now, we've been hearing from Greg Lugatis,
five time Olympic medalists, four time gold medalists and one silver.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite moments in my
career hearing his story from the legend himself. Mister Legatis,
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let me come back to you. You're also doing some
things now as far as mentoring and coaching and working
with Red Bull. Tell me about that please.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah, I'm sports stretcher for the Red Bull Cliff Having
World Series and so yeah, we just had our first
up was in France, and and then we've got five
more steps through the year.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Tell me some of the differences between cliff diving and
platform diving other than the obvious.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, okay, the women are diving from twenty meters. I
dive from ten meters, so it's twice as fide as
I would dive from. And then the men are diving
from twenty seven meters and they do in some of
the stuffs, we do have a natural cliff that they
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are diving off of, and so I mean, it's it
really is incredible and the tricks that the kids are
doing are unbelievable. I mean, it's basically the types of
guys that you're going to see at the Olympic Games,
but you add a half somersault with a half twist
because they're going in feet first rather than headfirst. So
(16:52):
it really I mean, the technique has really come so far,
and you know, the you know, the you know, the
athletes are just really really incredible along those lines.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Take us inside these Tokyo Games. I know you're going
to be watching. I know you have a vested interest,
and not only what America does, but individual participants give
us a nugget or something to look for to realize
how a competition may go or some inside inside as
to what may happen in this competition, be it platform
(17:25):
or springboard.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Well, we you know, we now have synchronized diving, so
that's you know, that's one of the events. Uh, you know,
we didn't have that when while I was competing. Also, uh,
there's there's a stronger emphasis for the high degree of
difficulty dives, a much more difficult dive. So you'll see
you know, foreign and a halves and you know, and
(17:49):
just some incredible you know, tumbling and twisting dives that
you know that are just you know, unbelievable. So so
the stress is more on a degree of difficulty, so
you'll be on the lookout for that. And we also
have some young divers who made some of the teams
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from the various countries, and so it could be a
very young people on the podium.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What's it like, I should say, what do you remember
from any of your metal stand ceremonies? Is it the
national anthem? Is it bases in the crowd? Is it
all of that? What do you remember? What's it like
when they put a gold medal around your neck?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Well, okay, my first Olympics was in nineteen seventy six.
I was a silver medalist at the nineteen seventy six
Olympic Games. And that was a tough one because I
went there to win. I didn't go there to take second.
I was dining with doctor Sammy Lee, and he won
two golds in forty eight and fifty two, and then
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he coached Bobby Webster to win two gold medals for
the US in sixty sixty four, and then Klaus Tibiassi
was going for his third Olympic gold medal from Italy,
and so my sole purpose on this earth was to
prevent Klaus from winning that gold medal. That I failed.
So that was that was devastating. That was really really hard,
(19:16):
and that was that was That was a difficult awards ceremony.
I was not a happy camper, but in eighty four
it was. It was interesting because like I don't remember
the three meter springboard competition award ceremony very much because
my mind I was already thinking about ten meter platform
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because I had another event coming up. Well I really,
I mean if you watch the metal ceremonies, you can
you can see I'm pretty reserved in the in the
three meter springboard because I'm thinking about the ten meter platform.
And then when ten meter platform came and they put
that metal around my neck, I mean I just I
lost it there. It was just you know, the floodgates
(19:57):
were you know, were poorn just because I get it
and then and then eighty eight was just such a
totally different experience because, oh my god, that was my last,
you know, my last competitive dives. I mean, I knew
that in my heart, but I was afraid to tell
anybody because I didn't want to chinks anything. But I
(20:17):
knew in my heart that those were my last competitive
dives and that it was just it really was emotional.
And also, I'm a firm believer you don't achieve greatness
on your own. And my coach, Ron O'Brien was there
for me. I couldn't have gotten through that Olympic Games
without him after hitting my head on the board and
coming back and him just being in my corner, you know,
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because he was going through a lot too, because he
lost his mother. His mother passed right before the competition started.
So there was a lot of emotion that was you know,
that was mixed in with that eighty eight Olympic experience.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Is it fair to say that after all these years
and deck the gold medal that you didn't win still
weighs on your mind or still impacts you more than
the gold medals you did win.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't think about it a whole lot. It's funny
because I have a dear, dear friend, Susan Garrett. She said,
you know, she said, oh, Greg hu gay Is, he
is a solo medalist and six time Olympic gold medals
said to his end, he gave me two gold medals, said, oh,
you would have won an eighty. Oh my god. But
(21:32):
you know it was you know, it's really sweet. But
I don't I don't think of it a whole lot
because you know, it is what it is, and uh,
you know, and I had a real good run, you know, uh,
World Championships, Pan American Games. I mean, there's a lot
of records that you know that I that that I hold,
(21:53):
that still stand. It's pretty incredible. I I'm proud of
what I've been able to do.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Pretty credible. Indeed, he is Greg Luganis.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Four times, not six, but four time Olympic gold medalists.
Mister Leuganis, has been an honor to speak with you
once again. Thank you for your insight, thank you for
representing USA so very well. And I do believe you
would have won those two gold medals in nineteen eighty
as well, So don't be mad. That someone just gives
you an extra two gold medals.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
You're awesome, You're so cool. It's great talking with you.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
You're listening to some of my favorite Olympic conversations over
the years. Next up is three time Olympic gold medalist
gymnast Gabby Douglas. It's Later with Moe Kelly. Can if
I and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
KFI six More stimulating talk mo Kelly here. Gabby Douglas
has three Olympic gold medals to her name. That much
most everyone knows, but what is less often discussed is
the hard work and discipline needed to reach such goals.
Young people all around the country are beginning to wind
down their summers and prepare to go to school, and
to that end, Gabby Douglas has a tip or two
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to help students and parents alike hit their stride in
the new year. Gabby Douglas, It's a pleasure to speak
with you. How are you today?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I'm good?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
How about you?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I'm just actually tickled to be able to just speak
with you, because obviously seeing your exploits, I can only
imagine the hard work which preceded it over the years.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, you.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Began formal gymnastics training at age six, and by age
eight you won your first major title. What was your
training routine like in between those benchmarks?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Oh? Well, thank you so much. And like you said,
I got started. I just had a passion for gymastics.
I was about age six, and then I got introduced
to the Olympics when I was about age nine, and
ever since then, I just started setting goals for myself.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
My mom always.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Taught me and my siblings to set goals for yourself,
and it was so key because once I saw and
visualize myself in the moment, my.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Career took off.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
But when you're six years old, did you think about
the long range plan or was it just something that
you enjoyed to do and you found that you had an.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Aptitude for I was so young at six years old,
and I just had a love for gymnastics, and I
didn't really know what anything was. I just went out
and flipped and I didn't know about the Olympics or
about any competitions until I was introduced to it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
In two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But I just had fun.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I was just a little girl.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
As a kid.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
We all know that that type of training takes discipline
and dedication, but where did you find the time to
apply yourself academically?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I was homeschooled, where that was so key and helped
me out so much because I was always in the
gym and I was just set goals for myself. I
wouldn't allow myself to get overwhelmed because I know it
can be overwhelming with sports and studies. You just can't
let yourself be overwhelmed. And that's why I encourage young
kids and even parents. That's I'm here post a brand
(25:23):
today to tell them to write out your goals. If
you don't have a goalboard, I suggest you get one
because it helped me three great metals later. It helped me,
so I encourage you to get a goalboard.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
That fascinates me because you, unlike me, you are someone
who grew up in the electronic era, but you still
write things down as part of your organization.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
How did that come about?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I still write things down, and I'm a visual learner,
so that helps me out a lot. And I like
to see things and then try them out, so it
definitely helps when you see it and then you just
imagine yourself in a moment and you make it stick.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Since you said that make it sticky, you are working
with the Posted brand in terms of getting students and
even parents for that matter, back in the habit or
into the habit of writing things down. Now, how do
you use post it in what you do on a
day to day basis?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I love to use post it supersticky notes, and they're
really essential because they're transferable. You can put them in
your journal. I put them on my wall and on
my goalboard. You can put them wherever you can see them.
I mean you can even like screenshot it and put
it out of the screensaver. So that's how that's how
I use the using super sticky notes.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well see, I'm gonna need a little bit of help
from you, Gabby Douglas, because i need a little more
organization in my life. And I'm a person and maybe
I'm like others. If you give me a bunch of
posted notes, they may end up all over the house,
all over the floor. So how do you beyond the
press with that?
Speaker 7 (26:51):
That's fine as long as you see your goal But
you see him on the wall, you can see him
on the ceiling. As you walk out through this door.
I mean, I mean, I don't think that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Nah, I get it, okay. And that goes back to
the visualization.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
The more that you see at the reinforcement of those goals,
then you are on the path to achieving them.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Can we talk about the color? Though the color is
super viran like, it's so inviting.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Do you have a preference in color?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
For me, always like the purple and gold, which goes
back to my fraternity. But you have a maybe a
different color that you prefer. You have to get the pink,
get the pink.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Ones white pink. How am I supposed to use pink everywhere?
I'm a forty seven year old man. True blue blue
is a way to be okay?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
All right, then we can meet halfway In terms of blue.
We were talking about you meeting your goals if you
just tuning in them. Speaking with three time Olympic gold
medalists Gabby Douglas, Geab, we were talking about you and
your goals. But after the Olympics, how do you frame
your life in terms of goals that you would like
to reach?
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Since I am enjoying the summer and currently not training
at the moment and spending a lot of time with
family friends. I still have a goal board because I
am still competitive and I still want to achieve things
in life, so I put them on my goal board
and basically just what I want to do and what
I want to achieve acting. I do a lot of
(28:15):
different hobbies other than gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
When you say you're not training at this point in time,
what does your training regimen look like if you're not
in a competition mode.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
I still work out. I still go running because I
really don't like running.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I give me both.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
I go hiking, which is beautiful, and swimming.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Is there anything that you find yourself that if you
were not specifically going the gymnastics route, if you were
to do it over again, is there another sport that
you think that you could have been competitive in?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
This is like a.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Very like hard question.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Sometimes. See I tell people running, but I hate running,
so that would not work out. Then my mom said
I should have been a comedian.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Oh you got so you got jokes?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
No, I don't have jokes.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You say that possibly running, then why not? Just because
you didn't like it doesn't mean that you couldn't have
been very successful at it.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Could we then possibly see you still connected to sports
in some way in terms of maybe coaching gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I do coach a little.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I do a lot of Facebook lives. I just kind
of coach through social media and I coach like different
gymnastics camps.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh that's outstanding.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
So if you were to give some advice to a
young and budding gymnast, there's probably one who's listening right now.
Before I let you go, Gabby Douglas, what would you
say to that beginner, that young person who really wants
to go your way in terms of really seeing how
they can reach their potential in gymnastics specifically, one.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
I would have to say, definitely, write out your goal
and what you want to achieve. It helped me, I'm
telling you helped me so much in my career and
out that young just have fun and be in the
moment and then just enjoy what you do and there
you have it.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
She is Gabby Douglas, three time Olympic gold medalists. Thank
you so much for coming on KFI today and I
hope to talk to you again soon.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
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