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Podcast: The Thorne Podcast
Episode: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About the Olympics with Wes Barnett
Description: In this Performance Edition of the Thorne Podcast, we’re joined by former Olympic athlete Wesley Barnett to talk about his experiences as a weightlifter, and then as an administrator at the U.S. Olympic Committee, and what it meant to represent Team USA.
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During this episode you’ll learn about:
Wes’s Olympic experience [0:50]
Competing as a clean athlete in an era of performance enhancement [2:03]
Searching for clean supplements [4:14]
Understanding competition bans [4:45]
Logistics of training and planning for the Olympic Games [6:35]
7-year plans [8:44]
Looking toward the future of sports performance [14:30]
Taking care of the bas...