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Apr 2021
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The Drink with Kate Snow: Apolo Ohno

LESTER HOLT, NBC NEWS
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Apolo Ohno is known as the most decorated American Winter Olympian in history. But in his first Olympic trials, he finished dead last. He traces his “hard pivot” in life, when he left the world of short track speed skating and had to figure out a new career path.

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