On this episode Olympic Gold Medalist, Heather Moyse tells it all...

Name: On this episode Olympic Gold Medalist, Heather Moyse tells it all...
Uploaded: 2023-12-15T11:22:27+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this interview excerpt, Olympic gold‑medalist Heather Moyse recounts how, just five months before the next Winter Games, she decided to attend a…

15 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Olympic gold‑medalist Heather Moyse recounts how, just five months before the next Winter Games, she decided to attend a bobsled testing camp despite never having tried the sport before. She describes breaking a team testing record and feeling strong early on, but then overhears a coach telling her pilot not to invest too much time in her development because she is a rookie in an Olympic season and may not handle the pressure. The passage highlights her internal decision‑making, rapid performance gains, and the external doubts she faced from coaching staff.

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I was kind of convinced to do this testing camp, and I broke one of their testing records, and it was only 5 months before the next Olympics. So for me, I fell in love with the challenge of seeing if I could actually do it, or not even if I could do it, but how close could I get to make, you know, to maybe qualifying and representing my country. So I had to make the decision if I was going to embrace this challenge or not without even having been in a bobsled before. When I started, things were going really, really well, and I was breaking some team records in testing, and we were pushing from the top of the track. And then I overheard one of the coaches talking to my driver, my pilot, saying not to put too much time or effort into developing me because it was an Olympic season and I was a rookie and so probably wouldn't be able to handle the pressure.