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Going for gold: Spenser Mango

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    American Greco-Roman wrestler on handling expectations ahead of the London 2012 Games

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It's a lot of threats -- you know -- expectations -- but.

It's like they're cumulative times that -- the -- expected to -- in 2008 I was pretty young and not photo -- experience.

So.

And the -- -- team as a whole is a lot more experience who was what medals and and look at the greatest things.

I think it's -- -- in the world.

My opinion.

The weight issues and I have to costly battle evaluate you know you -- you know train for maybe four hours a day.

And you know competition it's 101 came.

Look for your teammates you know where's the rough invincible -- -- its issue out there.

And I just we enjoyed the portrait campaign -- lending really.

Said -- and and he was great wrestler he's a great guy and he really hasn't.

Some words -- -- -- inspire it is you know tell me you know focus on wrestling right now you know -- that helped -- become -- champion.

Freedoms that.

It's really focus on the big bill.

I'd say the most I've -- -- it was maybe.

Around seventeen pounds -- over.

It was that left president got -- -- I got a lot bigger I gained.

When he went five pounds first and and I have never had to lose weight before so I didn't really know do it and they you as it was really tough for me to make way but now what that meant to better it's like you.