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I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.