What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with the very best,

athletes, scientists, experts, doctors, and more.

Learn what the best in the world are doing to perform and what we can do to unlock our own best performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, and we are still

on a mission to unlock human performance. We got a great guest today, but before we get to

Olympic bobs letter, Lauren Gibbs, I'll remind you, you can get 15% off of W-W-Membership. If you use

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On this week's episode, Olympic bobs letter, Lauren Gibbs, sits down with Mike Lombardi for a wide-ranging discussion on how it's

never too late to chart a new course for your life. Lauren's story is pretty incredible.

She started bobsledding at 30 years old and less than four years later she was representing

the U.S. in the 2018 Winter Olympics. She won a silver medal at those

games with her teammate Alana Myers-Taylor and went on to have an incredible career, including a gold

medal win at the 2020 World Championships. Lauren discusses her journey from college athletics to

CrossFit and then ultimately the business world

before discovering bobsledding. I mean, imagine that. You become an Olympic medalist just four

years after learning how to do it at age 30. Pretty amazing. What the road to the Olympics is like and just

how much coaching, training, and financing it takes to support your Olympic dreams,

the sacrifices it takes to be an Olympian, how she uses whoop to optimize her performance,

and what it's like to be a woman in sport, including the hurdles and biases that exist

and why she's advocating for greater parity. Okay, without further ado, here are Mike and Lauren Gibbs.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Woot Podcast. I'm Mike Lombardi, and today I am joined by Olympian

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