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Podcast: Doctor Thyroid
Episode: Professional Triathlete, Ironman Champion, and Facing Thyroid Cancer with Karen Smyers
Description: Karen Smyers has competed as a professional triathlete for 30 years. In her lengthy career, she has won seven National and four World Championship titles, including a dramatic come-from-behind victory in the Hawaiian Ironman World Championships in 1995. Her victory at the short-course ITU Triathlon World Championship just 5 weeks later still earns her the distinction of being the only woman ever to win triathlon's two most prestigious races in the same year. In this episode, we hear Karen describe what the calls, 'character building' moments, including how she approached thyroid cancer in the midst of of preparing for the 2000 Ol...