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Who is Michelle Jenneke?

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You wish more than anything there was a way to get that time back and relive the moments that made you feel alive.

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If there’s any group of people you’d think would value cold, hard, pure results, it’s professional athletes.

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There comes a moment in every athlete’s career where the clock strikes 0:00 for the final time and in that moment part of you is changed forever.

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“The sweetheart of the London Olympics very quickly became this year’s villain with a list of offenses which seem to increase by the day.”

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“Today is reduced to one question, how bad do you want it?”

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In all of my international volleyball experience, I never qualified for the Olympics. I like to say, though I can’t tell for sure, that I would have been an Olympian had I developed my mental game at a younger age.

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Michael Phelps winning gold in London in the 100m Butterly. Watching Phelps’ mom is almost better than watching Phelps. She is 100% the true Olympian.

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It struck me that when men are dominant in a field, people celebrate; but when it comes to women being dominant in a field, people complain.

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When I don’t want to get out of bed I think about how much I would be hurting them and myself, and you don’t do that to family. You don’t screw them over; you work hard for them and with them to become the best you can, together.