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Connor Fields

Retired BMX racer, three-time Olympian and the first American to win Olympic gold in BMX racing (Rio 2016); now a keynote speaker, coach, and NBC Olympics commentator.

Nov 9, 2026

12:57
Yeah.
12:58
Well, it's tough because we, you know, the year that I won, I'm going to divert and come back.
13:03
The year that I won the Olympics, we won 102 medals as a country.
13:06
I was one of 40 Olympic gold medals.
13:10
Wow.
13:11
And Michael Phelps won five.
13:13
And Simone Biles won three.

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34:29
Okay.
49:10
Yeah.
49:11
but then I kind of stay in my lane.
49:13
So I'm not, I don't understand and know the tech side of it.
49:17
I don't know how that works and why we do certain things or why we can't do other things.
49:22
But what I can say is like, Hey, in Nashville, uh, let's make sure we talk to this person.
49:28
Cause that's an interesting storyline or, Hey, you know, I think that we should interview people and ask if they change their gears this weekend, because Nashville, the track that is common to change gears.
49:40
And yeah, that's where like my job and how I, I kind of came into it and like, there will be other people doing it, not just me the whole time.
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51:42
Mm-hmm.

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