Gillette is one of 10 top Team USA athletes talking to kids through a new learning series in partnership with NBC Olympics on the popular grade school communication platform, Class Dojo.
In the Heart of A Champion series, Gillette and his Olympic/Paralympic teammates share different lessons on themes like courage, perseverance and focus.
“These are lessons we use as athletes and ultimately as human beings and all of those things help us,” Gillette said. From mountain biking to karate, Olympians lay out what they love about their sport. “I just go through the movements and that helps me express myself.”
Heimana Reynolds, 22, is a North County park-style skateboarder and has as good of a shot at finding the top of the podium as anyone. He's on a mission for.
Fields fine-tunes his skills and technique on the BMX tracks at the Elite Athlete Training Center, which has already turned part of one track into a replica of what riders will compete on in Tokyo this summer.
But, for every gate opening on the track, it seems another door opens off of it. After all, there is only one reigning male BMX Olympic champion on the planet and it’s Fields. It s instant credibility or ability to do really cool things like speak to schools, or be on the news, or things like that,” said Fields. “I mean I can put it at the top of my resume every single time and it looks really good, doesn’t get much better than that.”
Updated on March 11, 2021 at 7:04 am
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Jeff Henderson doesn t pay attention to his competition.
Even in normal years when meets around the world are attracting the biggest names in track and field, he doesn t care.
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He doesn t Google search them, he doesn t know who is jumping the farthest and he certainly doesn t spend much time comparing his results to others.
It s something I m doing for my mom
Jeff Henderson
Henderson only thinks about two people when he prepares for the long jump: himself and his mom.