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Ohno: I won the US world team trials after seven months' training
“Within, I think, seven, little over seven months, I went from Essentially becoming unknown to anyone in the world cup circuit, international circuit, or even the U S circuit to then going to the world team trials, winning the competition, which was very strang…”
Ohno: I went from first place to dead last within one year
“And so I arrived at the 1998 Olympic trials. No longer overweight, but mentally going into the competition thinking that I wasn't going to make the team, and so within one year, I went from first place, which was being at the top of the mountain, to finishing …”
Ohno: My father isolated me in a remote cabin to decide my future
“So my dad took me to this area about three and a half hours Southwest of downtown Seattle, and it's right on the Pacific ocean. This area he would take me to when, you know, when I was very young and we spent our holidays there and we used to rent this at the …”