Rio Olympics: USA women chat before Saturday

While the men officially get the Olympic triathlon commotion underway tomorrow, the women will follow suit on Saturday Aug. 20. So as the prep continues, the USA women, Gwen Jorgensen, Sarah True and Katie Zaferes, took the time in between their training schedules to chat with some global media outlets. Here is what they had to say:

Jorgensen:You have been prepping for this date all season long, how does it feel knowing you are days away from finally racing? “I am excited to race and just to get out there. Last year at the test event there was a lot of people out there cheering, so I am expecting it to be the same this year, so yeah I just am excited to race.” What has the training with the Wizards been like? “So since Yokohama we have been in Victoria, Spain and training there. It has been so great to have those training partners, we have had a great core group of us who are here in Rio and competing, so we are there every day pushing each other and really trying to get better and prepare for race day.” How has your hill prep been? “Yeah I have been preparing for that hill. In Victoria we have been doing some circuits with hills in them to prepare us on the bike. It is going to be a tough course, you are going to go up that hill. Everyone has to go up that hill, you can’t just hide so I think that we will find out real quick on race day, who has done the work and who is going to be ready for the hill and then you get off on the run and that is going to be hard as well because although it is flat, it could be hot or raining, we don’t know. But running after the step hill, it puts a lot of fatigue in your legs.”

Do you have an ideal race situation you would like to see happen? “Triathlon is an interesting sport because you never know what is going to happen. You can’t really have a plan, because the plan will not go to plan or as you thought. So you just try to prepare yourself for every situation and just go out there and do your best.”

How so far has this Olympic experience been to your experience in London? “In London I went to the Opening Ceremony because our race was a little bit closer to the start. And then I did the race and I was able to enjoy the other races and go to them in person and cheer on my USA teammates. Then this year I just flew in on August 15th, so I have been watching the Olympics on my television and did not go to the Opening Ceremony. So there are things like that that are different, but one thing that has been the same is that USA Triathlon has done a great job of just giving us all the support that we need …

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