{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6994b1951774b22d5ad8d2d1/6a56db097e01c44e38c48ae5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Olympic Champion Beckie Scott on Speaking Truth to Power and What It Cost","description":"<p>Host Jenn Heil sits down with Beckie Scott, Olympic champion, global anti-doping leader, and one of Jenn's personal heroes. In Salt Lake City in 2002, Beckie became the first North American woman to win an Olympic cross-country skiing medal, a bronze that became silver, then gold, as the doped athletes ahead of her were disqualified over the following three years. She went on to chair WADA's athlete committee, founded Spirit North, an organization that now reaches 20,000 Indigenous youth across Canada every year. Today, she is the CEO of Nordiq Canada. In this conversation, Beckie and and Jenn unpack what it takes to speak up when the world tells you to stay grateful and silent.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Jenn and Beckie discuss:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The four-year climb from 45th at her first Olympics to the podium — building a system and culture that didn't yet exist</li><li>The call that turned her medal moment upside down, and the surreal three-year journey from bronze to gold</li><li>Why staying silent felt like complicity: the backlash of speaking out, and the personal toll of leading the clean-sport fight</li><li>Life now: founding Spirit North, interval sessions with old teammates, protecting sleep, and what victory means today</li></ul><p><br></p><p>The support behind great performance should not be reserved for sport.</p><p>revvel gives women access to world-class experts — the kind of team most people never get.</p>","author_name":"revvel"}