00:22Música
00:25Oh, esto es en español, ok
00:28¿Quieres que me diga en español?
00:31Ok, no voy a hablar en español
00:34Muchas gracias, Shalia
00:35¿Cómo estás en España?
00:37Estoy bien, estoy bien
00:38He estado aquí varias veces
00:39He estado cerca de aquí
00:42Creo que está en Alcobendas
00:44Sí, en el campo de entrenamiento
00:46Hace varios años
00:47Así que hemos estado aquí varias veces
00:50Quiero preguntarte
00:51¿Qué ha cambiado entre
00:54la joven chica que iba a ir a Beijing
00:56a la leyenda?
00:58Creo que es realmente
01:00poder advocar para mí
01:01y saber quién soy
01:03y ser confiante
01:05Creo que fueron los cambios
01:08para mí y la evolución
01:10es lo que pasó
01:10pero cuando era joven
01:11yo estaba muy seguro
01:13de quién era
01:14lo que quería lograr
01:16en el campo
01:16yo estaba solo
01:18y cuando era joven
01:20me empecé
01:21me empecé
01:21intentando
01:25maximizar
01:26los objetivos
01:27y mi potencial
01:28y me empecé
01:29y me empecé
01:29y me empecé
01:30que tenía mucho más
01:30para dar
01:31así que creo que
01:32es realmente
01:33el cambio
01:33poder adaptar
01:35en diferentes
01:35ocasiones
01:36de mi carrera
01:37¿Cómo se ha pasado?
01:39¿Qué haces ahora?
01:40¿Qué haces ahora?
01:41¿Qué es tu futuro?
01:43Yo también creo que
01:44cuando es
01:45muy, muy bueno
01:47y me empecé
01:47a ser muy bien
01:47y realmente
01:48me empecé a
01:49ser contento
01:50y me empecé
01:51a la vida
01:51y me empecé
01:52un momento
01:53cuando me empecé
01:54me decía
01:54¿Qué haces?
01:57Así que
01:58yo tenía
01:59Pero todavía estoy trabajando, así que voy a la carrera en la mañana, voy a la gym, pero también me
02:04became una mamá de soccer.
02:05Así que estoy pasando mucho más tiempo con mi hijo, que juega el fútbol de casa.
02:09Así que estoy en todas las sesiones de entrenamiento, en todas las tiendas, en todas las sábias, en todas las
02:14sábias y en todas las sábias.
02:16Pero lo que también ha sido la highlight para mí es realmente zonar en la Fundación Pocket Rocket, que es
02:23mi caridad,
02:24y amplificar las voces para aquellos que no tienen esa voz.
02:28Y de los estudiantes, la plataforma para celebrar quiénes son y enfocarse en ponerse en su deporte y su educación,
02:39y balancear ambos para crear un cambio de cambio.
02:41Así que he sido capaz de usar mi experiencia y liderar esa habilidad y advocar para los estudiantes.
02:48Y también, por un punto de vista de la vida con Afimi,
02:52para crear mi portfolio,
02:54y convertirme en un propósito,
02:55y convertirme en ideas,
02:58y tener ese tiempo para realmente transitarme a la siguiente fase.
03:03Entonces, veo que no eres llena.
03:05No, no estoy llena, no a todo.
03:07Y, mirando a tu carrera,
03:09¿el gran desafío fue la fiesta o la menta?
03:12Um, I think,
03:15I would like to say both.
03:17You know,
03:17both were challenging because,
03:20I think when I just started,
03:21it was more the mental part of it.
03:24Like, you know,
03:24just not knowing who I was or being,
03:27feeling like I didn't belong in a space.
03:30And that was hard for me,
03:32especially coming from Waterhouse.
03:34So for me,
03:35the idea of a young girl from an inner city,
03:38becoming an Olympic champion or a world champion was hard to even think about.
03:42Because I didn't have a lot of those,
03:44you know,
03:45influences around me.
03:47So it was hard to kind of accept that.
03:49And I think as I got older,
03:51I kind of started to,
03:52you know,
03:53step into that zone and saying to myself,
03:55I deserve to be here.
03:56I deserve.
03:57When did you start to believe that?
03:59I think I started believing that after I won my Olympics medal in 2008,
04:04because I remember I really just wanted to be in the finals.
04:09I kid you not.
04:10That was the goal to make it to the finals.
04:12Nothing else.
04:13Right.
04:14And I think walking away with that gold medal kind of gave me the,
04:17the,
04:18the inspiration to dream higher and bigger.
04:20Yeah.
04:21And I was like, okay,
04:21now I'm going to say what I want and mean it because saying it actually makes it real.
04:26And I think for a lot of people,
04:28they think saying it gives it makes them,
04:30you know,
04:30puts a huge burden on them.
04:32But actually it doesn't,
04:33it just means that you're confident about what you want to achieve and things you want to achieve.
04:38What's the biggest highlight of your career?
04:40I think the biggest highlight for me is having my son and coming back after having my son.
04:47I think for us,
04:49for me as a female athlete,
04:50I've never heard a lot of it.
04:52Yeah.
04:53You've always heard conversations about people saying,
04:56Oh,
04:57don't have a kid yet.
04:58Yeah.
04:58Or wait until you finish your career because somehow tracks,
05:03having a son or having a child slows you down or it takes away from your career.
05:08And that's something that I grew up hearing because the reality is my mom got pregnant with my brother when
05:13she was young and she was doing track and she didn't get to do it anymore.
05:18She actually stopped when she had my brother.
05:21Yeah.
05:21And then for a lot of young girls in my communities and in Jamaica,
05:24when they had a kid,
05:25they stopped going to school because they somehow felt like they could only do one thing at a time.
05:31Yeah.
05:32And I think for me that's been the highlight,
05:34really just setting that narrative and having that conversation that it's okay to want both things and to have both
05:40things and to do well at both things.
05:41Okay.
05:42So I think,
05:42you know,
05:42walking away with my world championship medal in 2019 after having my son was the highlight for my career.
05:49Has there been any secret for your longevity?
05:53No.
05:53Secret for the longevity?
05:55I think…
05:55Now you can tell.
05:57There's no real secret.
05:58It's just really adapting to the season that you're in.
06:01Yeah.
06:01And learning your body,
06:02knowing who you are,
06:03knowing where you are in your career and kind of,
06:06you know,
06:07holding on to that.
06:08The athlete you are at 21 is not the athlete you are in your 30s.
06:11Yeah.
06:11And you have to learn and know your body,
06:14know what you want and kind of,
06:16you know,
06:17fix those things and adapt to those things.
06:19And I think that's the highlight for me.
06:21Yeah.
06:21Is that at every different juncture of my career,
06:24I kind of know what place I was in.
06:27Okay.
06:27And I kind of leaned to that and tapped into that.
06:29So I think those things are very important.
06:31Is that you have to just know who you are,
06:34know what you're chasing,
06:35know that the athlete that you are in your 20s is not the athlete that you will be in your
06:4030s.
06:40And you will have to make changes and be honest with yourself and open to know what,
06:45hey,
06:45I need to revamp this or I need to change it.
06:47So honesty is really important as a part of,
06:50you know,
06:50your career choice.
06:52And be inside those changes in an Olympic final that the difference are tiny.
06:57Yeah.
06:58You can make that difference with some changes or it's also mental.
07:03Um,
07:04it's,
07:04it's,
07:05it's,
07:05I would like to say mental more than anything else because you have been working or training for an entire
07:12year for that moment.
07:13And you have been running races.
07:16For me,
07:16it's,
07:17you have to know what is your peak performance.
07:20You have to know what you need to do in each race.
07:23And you can't forget it.
07:24You can't allow the moment to let you forget it because sometimes that happens.
07:29You get into a race and the race itself becomes the moment instead of you focusing on what gets you
07:34to that line.
07:36You know,
07:36the execution,
07:37focusing on what it is that you will need to do as an athlete to get to that line.
07:40Not what the person will do in lane one.
07:43Not what the person will do in lane two.
07:45Because the reality is you cannot control what anybody else does.
07:48You have to control your thoughts.
07:50Yeah.
07:50What it is that you want.
07:52And I've always said you can't make it easy for anyone else.
07:56The reality is I'm standing at the line.
07:58I have to focus on what it is I need to do to get to the finish.
08:02I can't be focusing on what you are doing because that's not going to help me.
08:05That's counterproductive.
08:06So the reality is I think in a race and an Olympic final, it's a lot more mental than it
08:11is physical.
08:12It's what you tell yourself the minute or the moment the starter says on your mark.
08:17It's what you tell yourself in a warm up track.
08:19What do you tell yourself during the course of the races?
08:23You know,
08:23Can I just one more?
08:26One more.
08:26Last one.
08:27Last one.
08:27Thank you.
08:28You know better than anyone.
08:30How does it taste the win?
08:33Is it?
08:34Did it become an addiction for you at any point of your career?
08:38For sure.
08:39Winning?
08:40Win.
08:41I love to win.
08:43Yeah.
08:43Who doesn't?
08:45Right.
08:45I think winning is almost like it's the confirmation that the work that I've put in has materialized.
08:52It's almost like the moment you say, okay, I did it.
08:57I earned this.
08:59And it's the moment you start to believe that all those sweat, the tears, everything that you've been able to
09:05work through over the course of your season has finally paid off.
09:09So I think it can be addicting, but then you win at different stages and at different things.
09:14And winning for me may look different from somebody else.
09:18Somebody else win may mean just making the final.
09:21Somebody else win maybe I had a hard year this year.
09:24I just want to make it to the finals.
09:26I just want to have a personal best.
09:27Because the reality in races, you have people who have run their best race ever and they still walk away
09:33without a medal.
09:34But that's a win for them.
09:36So winning looks different for everybody.
09:38Okay.
09:38Thank you so much.
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