Amy Purdy
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, and to actually try to keep those emotions at bay.
Yeah, don't mess it up right now.
But yeah, I mean, you know, easily standing in those gates, you know, I thought of everything that happened in my life that led me there.
all the people who are rooting for me, all the people who supported me.
And, um, I mean, we even had throughout the years because we race in a dangerous sport, we even had major, major injuries with some of the athletes.
We had one athlete who passed away in one of our races right before Sochi.
So all of that though, it's what, you know, comes to you in the start gates.
It's like,
Everything it took to get there, you know.
And then โ but then, you know, you have to use that as power versus like broke down emotional.
Yeah.
And, yeah, then pulled out of the start gates and it was very challenging for us.
We were in Sochi.
The snow was very, very weird.
It was like โ
Yeah, it was like quicksand.
It was really interesting.
They'd spray the stuff on it to try to harden it up, but it would make it like glue.
It was really weird.
Yeah, you'd like dig your edge in, and it would actually โ you'd kind of sink instead of cutting through.