What's up, folks? Welcome back to The Whoop Podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, scientists, experts, and more, figure out what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

Okay, we've got a great guest this week, Malika Mahombo,

the German sportswoman of the year for the last three years, and the reigning Olympic World and

European Champion in Long Jump. This is also good timing because we just launched in Germany.

That's right. The Woop app is completely in German. It's completely translatable.

There will be more languages coming. And given our big German launch, it felt appropriate to sit down with one of Germany's biggest athletes, Malika.

Malika and I discuss her journey to the top of the track and field world, believing in yourself even when you're

faced with a lot of self-doubt, being critical in a constructive way and not a destructive way,

how she focuses on the process over results, her journal the night before she won an Olympic gold

medal, this was particularly fascinating and how she

uses whoop in her life and how it plays a critical role in her performance. As a reminder, you can get

15% off a whoop membership. If you use the code will, that's WI-L, the W-L-WP membership comes with

hardware, software analytics, our latest WOOP 4 and more.

All right.

Without further ado, here is Malika Mahamba.

Malika, welcome to the Woop podcast.

Thank you for having me here.

Well, congratulations on your recent gold medal.

Amazing to see the success that you've had over the course of your career. I want to go back in time first and ask you, did you always know

that you were going to be an Olympic athlete? Did you always know you were going to be a professional

athlete? Was this something that you were drawn to from a young age?

I was definitely drawn to it, but it was never like I was sure I would reach it. So it was more like a dream becoming true finally.

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