Shift Happens with Richard Sutton | Chad le Clos on Pressure, Reinvention and Life Beyond the Pool
Shift Happens · 18 May 2026 · 1h 5m
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Shift Happens Podcast with me Richard Sutton. Here we speak to people Speaker 1: who have navigated extraordinary pressure, adversity and change moments that tested them, transformed them and Speaker 1: ultimately shaped who they became. Join me as we explore what made their shift happen. Speaker 1: On today's podcast, we have an Olympic gold medalist, one of the most decorated athletes Speaker 1: in Commonwealth Games history, a man who has told me he's not done yet. Let's Speaker 1: dive into the session with none other than child Cloth. I'm going to jump straight Speaker 1: in. You jump trade in Paris twenty twenty four, fourth Olympics shoulder injury. You're thirty Speaker 1: two years old, You touch the wall, you look up, it's not enough, no final. Speaker 1: What do you feel in that moment? You know your whole life, you've built, you Speaker 1: built your career, you've built who you are on never quitting, never stopping, never, It's Speaker 1: relentless and now you kind of look up and the results is it's over. How Speaker 1: do you feel in that moment? Speaker 2: Hard to describe. Speaker 3: I think I probably knew about twenty seconds before, you know, because the guys that Speaker 3: I was racing I was actually an unseeded heat, which is the first time ever Speaker 3: in the Olympics. I was in an unseeded race, so I knew I had to Speaker 3: win my race quite comfortably to make it through to the semis in the final. Speaker 3: And with about twenty to go, you know, off the watch it's fifty that the Speaker 3: shoulder pretty much came out again like I did four weeks before, so…
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