USA 2008 Olympic Shot Putter Reese Hoffa: Handling Pressure

Shot put world champion Reese Hoffa, who will be competing at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games in the Track and Field shot put event, talks about the pressure of being at the top and how his coach helps him stay focused when he's the fastest gun in town. ThereÕs always gonna be pressure especially when youÕre number one because I know that when I was coming out of the ranks, all I thought about everyday was being the number one shotputter or number one athlete in the world. And to accomplish that it was a tremendous accomplishment on my part, but it does also let me know that there is some other kid coming out of high school or a professional now that may not have been number one for a while that wants to be number one. ItÕs tremendous feeling. It gives you a hard status. Dealing with the pressure of being number one is--itÕs more something youÕve got to take day to day. I know I had big target on my back, but luckily, you know, DonÕs gone through this with another training partner of mine, Adam Nelson, so he knows what to expect, he knows the pressures that IÕm under, and he does a good part of helping to relieve that pressure like, hey, whatever youÕre doing, itÕs perfectly fine, itÕs not like you gotta do anything different than what youÕve done in the past to stay number one. And as long as I stay with that, I should continue to stay number one.

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[brettmoosethompson]

Ha ya

[Kruszakus]

And a guy from a university did come to Beijing and stole the show, hehehe.