I made a 50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.
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