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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

— Dan O'Brien

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

— Charlie White

I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.

— Ma Long

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

— Nadia Comaneci

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

— Bryan Clay

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

— Jordyn Wieber

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

— Wilma Rudolph

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

— Rihanna

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.

— Johnny Weir

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

— Tara Lipinski

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don't know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.

— Ariane Fortin