John Godina
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"John Carl Godina" is an United States/American shot putter, whose record includes three IAAF World Championships in Athletics/World Championship wins and two Olympic Games/Olympic medals. He also competes in discus.

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I've had four injuries in eight weeks, I've had a stomach virus. I've lost five kilos. And it all came after the best pre-season I've ever had.

It has taken six months for me to get past my injuries.

It's nice to be in Finland because they love throwers, ... Winning again at this point would be the greatest individual thing I've ever done considering the physical situation that I'm in. I don't think there could be anything better than that.

I had a major foot injury and that just finished things.

It's never been done, so it would be awesome, ... We've been talking about how it should happen a lot, but when you take the USA vs. the entire earth, it's very hard to get three people on the podium.