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Kayla Harrison Reveals How She Won Olympic Gold on a Diet of “Pizza Rolls and Diet Coke”

Pizza rolls and Diet Coke fueled Kayla Harrison’s Olympic dreams.

Before becoming a PFL and UFC champion, Harrison became the first American judoka to take home gold at the Olympic Games. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that she achieved this feat twice, winning gold in both 2012 and 2016.

You’d think that someone competing at the highest possible level would have a fairly strict training regimine and diet to match. But as it turns out, Harrison is much more conscious of what she puts in her body today than she was a decade ago.