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ANNOUNCER: From the United States--
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--two-time World Triathlon Champion, Gwen Jorgensen.
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ANNOUNCER: Jorgensen is in the forward position,
leading the way.
ANNOUNCER: Now Jorgensen's going to open up
a little bit [INAUDIBLE].
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ANNOUNCER: Gwen Jorgensen in a league of her own.
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ANNOUNCER: [INAUDIBLE] they were,
[INAUDIBLE] Sarah True, [INAUDIBLE]
an excellent swimmer.
[INAUDIBLE] of Australia.
There's [INAUDIBLE], followed by Backhouse.
Zaferes is right there, as we imagined she would be.
GWEN JORGENSEN: My life is very different this year
compared to last year at this time.
You know, last year I was--
I think right now I was in New Zealand.
I was definitely abroad training in a group environment
with the Wollongong Wizards and Jamie Turner.
And this year, I'm pregnant and doing
a lot of exercising, I'd say, and not
a whole lot of training.
We're having a baby.
We really wanted to buy a home.
Neither of us have had a home.
I've actually never bought a couch or a TV or anything
like that.
So I really wanted just to have more of an adult life.
And we went to a few different places.
We kind of narrowed it down to Portland.
We just wanted to try something different,
and it's beautiful out here in Portland.
There's tons of greenery.
We want to be somewhere where it's very outdoorsy,
but we also want a big airport, and we want a city.
So this was kind of the perfect mix for everything
we were looking for.
My training is very different.
I have no structure right now.
So Jamie's not giving me any workouts.
There's nothing like that.
It's just based on how I feel.
So the first trimester, I would wake up in the morning
and be exhausted, and I didn't feel well, I was nauseous.
So I didn't do a lot of training then.
It was a lot of laying in bed.
But now that I feel better, I wake up, I go for a run.
I actually have been doing more running than I do in triathlon
training, and that's just purely because that's
when I feel my best.
I've been doing a lot of gym, and making
sure I'm keeping my glutes activated,
and keeping my body in balance.
My cycling, I do it normally when the sun is shining,
and it's nice outside.
And I get to go with Patrick, which I really enjoy.
I really try to be very safe, knowing that I'm pregnant.
So I like to go somewhere where the cars are polite.
They know that there's cyclists.
And you know, Pat always will try
to ride on my outside to protect me and things like that.
He just does whatever I want to do.
And normally that's just go pretty easy.
The thing I miss most is definitely race day.
I love racing.
I really want to do a race right now.
I know that I'd be horrible and it'd be a horrible idea.
But I just miss that adrenaline rush.
I miss pushing myself to my limit.
I miss being able to be just totally focused in the moment,
doing my thing, what I train for every day.
But it's definitely worth skipping
all that to have a little baby.
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Four years ago, I thought I would just do Rio and be done.
And I really thought if I won gold,
there'd be no way I'd ever come back.
But I finished the Rio race, and I just wanted to come back.
And I really feel like as well, after I
have the child, the baby, that you know,
I'm going to have a new motivation.
And I just am not ready to be done with triathlon,
and I'm not ready to be done with sport.
And I'm really excited to get back into racing.
And I have no idea how my body will
change throughout this pregnancy and, you know,
what sort of hormone changes and things like that.
I have no idea what's going to happen.
Actually, some random person the other day
at the pool, the lifeguard, he was talking to me
about being pregnant.
And he's like, I heard that women, if they want to,
they can come back even stronger.
And I'm like, well, I want to.
So you know, I'm excited to race.
It's what excites me.
It's what motivates me.
And it's what I want to do for the next four years.
And after that, I'll be too old.
So I'm really excited to race.
And I really want to go to Tokyo.
And I want a repeat.
And that's the goal.
But I'm right now just taking it one step at a time
and trying to be healthy throughout the pregnancy.