It's a bumper daily podcast episode from the Winter Olympics in China today. Slovenian snowboarder Gloria Kotnik took an Olympic bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom. It was her best ever result in a career spanning 137 world cup races and three Olympic Games. After the last Olympics, she was burnout and in 2020 she took a career break to have a baby. Find out why it was the best decision she ever made.

Beijing 2022: How Gloria Kotnik lost the stress of competing to hit her best ever result

It's another exciting year of&nbsp;Olympics.com&nbsp;podcasts. We are looking forward to offering you another season of the best Olympic stories, with the Paris Games being the big highlight of 2024. Your host Tom Kirkland has worked at 13&nbsp;Olympics, reporting, hosting, and doing live commentary. The show will have great guests, the episodes will dig deep into the topic, the Olympics, Olympians, and sports. We’ll, of course, be truly global. Touching all 5 continents with our content. We’ll pay close attention to all the key events, updating stories and backstories on and off the field of play. It’ll be an all-encompassing conversation and we will signpost you to some of our outstanding original feature programming across all our&nbsp;Olympics.com&nbsp;platforms. So much to see, so much to enjoy. Be prepared to be entertained and inspired!

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Beijing 2022: How Gloria Kotnik lost the stress of competing to hit her best ever result

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