Olympic Sports in America Will Never be the Same

EPISODE 133: College.

It’s not easy to book time with the head coach of a U.S. Olympic team in Paris right now, in the final throes of the Summer Games.

But this episode is about a hidden, uniquely American story that you can’t see on television. The one lurking just below the surface at the Olympic Village. And it’s why Drew Johansen — head coach of USA Diving, head coach at Indiana University, and the greatest diving coach in America — wanted to join PTFO.

You may have seen two of Drew’s divers become the first Americans to medal at these Olympics, by the way, when the perfectly named Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon (a.k.a. Cook N’ Bacon) won silver in the women’s Synchronized 3-Meter Springboard. The first time the U.S. has medaled in that event since 2012.

But instead of simply celebrating, Drew has been feeling what many other Olympic coaches in Paris, across many other sports, have been experiencing: fear.

The fear that we foreshadowed back in March, with Jeffrey Kessler.

The fear that their sport, back in America, is about to die.

DKN/YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Stay gold,

Pablo