#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize

It was kind of around the same question, like why are you here? Why and what do you want to do? Is that even important to you? And I did not have an answer. There was no kind of clearing of the skies. There was no lightning bolt and like all of a sudden it's sunshine. Oh, you should go and become Olympic athlete. None of that. It was really at its most principled

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