150 | Vonn & Liu: Two Olympians, Two Comebacks. Grit Meets Freedom in Olympic Dreams
2/22/202632 min
About the Host
Dr. Toby Brooks is the host of Becoming UnDone®, a podcast that delves into the stories of high achievers who have navigated failures and setbacks on their path to success. With a strong background in performance science, Brooks is dedicated to helping individuals rebuild their identities and develop resilience through his app, Science of the Comeback. He is also actively engaged in personal coaching and engaging keynote speaking, offering insights drawn from his own experiences and those of his podcast guests.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[intro sound] This is Becoming Undone.
Toby Brooks· Host0:05
[tape recorder clicks] I go insane for the Olympics, and even as I'm working on this episode, the Winter Olympics are on right now. And when I was writing the script, Team USA's men's hockey team was up 5 to 1 in the third period, and I was trying my best to get some work done in an airport as I was trying to get home. Trying to get work done. Trying. The Olympics are on, man. My memories of the Olympics and my insane love for them go way back. Like, way back. One year, in 1992, NBC Sports embarked on this ambitious and innovative broadcast idea to cover the 22nd Summer Olympics in Barcelona. They called it the Olympics Triplecast. It was the first-of-its-kind project, and it provided three dedicated channels of live games coverage on the red, white, and blue channels. The red channel was mostly team sports, like basketball and baseball. The white channel was mostly individual sports, like gymnastics and boxing. And the blue channel was home to swimming in week one and track and field in week two. At the time, cable was still pretty new. Pay-per-view was an even newer idea still, so the Triplecast was considered a groundbreaking idea.
Speaker 31:26
[instrumental music] For all those who believe