Sean White and his girlfriend Nina Dobrovaloved checking issues off my post-retirement bucket listing.
“It was a number of enjoyable to spend time collectively. Often I’m not competing and she or he’s filming a challenge or one thing … however proper now we’ve got a while collectively,” White, 37, completely stated Us Weekly whereas selling CVS Effectively Market’s new line of snacks at a tasting occasion in New York Metropolis on Thursday, Could 16.
The Olympic gold medalist stated he made an inventory of issues he wished to do earlier than retiring, and he and 35-year-old Dobrev are actually working their approach via.
“It was enjoyable,” White stated, noting that almost all issues journey is simply “for enjoyable” slightly than work. “We went to Antarctica, Dubai, visited her mother in France, went to Monaco, went to Indonesia,” he added. “We have type of been all over the place.”
White stated one other merchandise on the listing is “connecting with associates.” He additionally loved the “little issues” after so a few years of busy schedules and intense coaching.
“I need to be round for Thanksgiving, I need to be round for Christmas, I need to be round for individuals’s birthdays, holidays,” he defined. “It is like these little issues that you simply kind of brush apart whenever you’re completely centered on a competing activity.”
Whereas White is now not competing, he and Dobrev, who’ve been collectively since 2020, nonetheless plan to go to Paris for the Olympics this summer season.
“That is the plan,” White shared, including that Dobrev is definitely “fairly fluent” in French. “She’s going to hate me for this. Her mother lives within the metropolis [in the] South of France. It is like essentially the most stunning place.”
Whereas he is excited to see the Summer season Olympics along with his girlfriend, White admitted he nonetheless will get some FOMO from watching.
“You may really feel the strain on the Olympic Video games. That is thick air,” he stated us. “Whenever you stroll into any of the stadiums the place they compete, you are feeling that strain and that pleasure.”
Along with working via his listing throughout his retirement, White additionally teamed up with CVS to advertise their new line of Effectively Market snacks.
“I really like CVS. It is a lot enjoyable. … It is a one-stop store for every thing,” he defined. “After I bought the decision that they had been launching this line of scrumptious snacks and drinks, I assumed, ‘That is so cool.’ And so they despatched me the merchandise, and I stated, “This isn’t only a common snack line.” A number of issues are rather well thought out.”
With reporting by Andrew Knodell