“You heard stories of, ‘He’s gotten through one.’ ‘He’s gotten through two.’ ‘He’s fighting for silver,’” Tuafatofua said. The guy who gets a gold medal, he’s gonna burn his lungs until he collapses at the finish line. One may be faster than the other but they’re still gonna give everything that they have … But at the end of the day, there’s gonna be three athletes on that podium. There’s gonna be 80 athletes, I think 80 in that race, who don’t get a medal. That’s the Olympic spirit, and that’s what’s important for me.”After his — pardon the expression — podium remarks, he did interview after interview: BBC, Sky, a Swedish network, Japanese.

Source: National Post February 14, 2018 16:07 UTC