Julia Nichols and Michelle Farrell
Recorded
November 3, 2019
42:44 minutes
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Id:
ddb002551
Description
Julia Nichols (41) speaks to her friend and colleague Michelle Dusserre Farrell (50) about their careers as Olympic athletes in rowing and gymnastics respectively, they also discuss their ties to the olympic community after their participation in competitive sports.Subject Log / Time Code
M.D. discusses how her family was supportive of her when she began competing in gymnastics.
M.D. describes the differences of training in Gymnastics in the 1980s and how back then, she had to learn every type of Gymnastics.
M.D. talks about watching Nadia Comăneci compete in the Olympics and how it inspired her.
J.N. remembers what it was like to be an alternate rower in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
J.N. discusses taking a break from rowing after 2008 and how she eventually made her way to the Olympics in 2012.
M.D. talks about suffering an Elbow injury the year after the 1984 Olympics and deciding not to go back to the games until she retired from the sport in 1987
M.D. talks about how her older daughter Abbey was born with spina bifida and how she eventually found the port of wheelchair basketball in College.
J.N. talks about growing up thinking that she was "pretty bad at sports" since she was compared to her older brother, that was until she started competing against other girls.
J.N. talks about how the rowing community has supported her throughout her life.
Participants
- Julia Nichols
- Michelle Farrell