I have been asked so many times: "What is it going to be like competing in front of a home crowd at the Olympics?" and I always say: "I don't know but it is going to be awesome".
"It's like competing against seven athletes who are doping, in a sense, when you're at that big of a disadvantage.
Nike China understands this better than anyone, having recently introduced a mobile digital experience to give basketball fans an engaging view of what it's like competing in Nike's High School Basketball League (HBL).
"You don't know what it's like competing with these young kids," she says.
If songs are like fighters competing to be on top, they're doing so now in a context just as chaotic as professional boxing, with its multiple organizations all claiming the power to grant the title of champion.
Mercedes Toto Wolfff has revealed Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are "like enemies competing for the world title".
"Honestly, I thought you were going to say it was something like competing in the Passover Nut Roll, or making sponge cake.
"It was just like competing," he said.
After beating Vande Velde in Stage 2 from Montrose to Crested Butte last week, van Garderen talked about what it was like to compete against his childhood heroes.
I wanted an opportunity to play in the N.F.L. and I wanted to see what it was like to compete with the best at my profession.
