Evan Jager: An Olympic medallist, a Swedish startup and the super supplement that's sweeping endurance sport

Weeks after retiring from one of the greatest professional running careers in a generation, Evan Jager found himself inside a Swedish lab testing a supplement made from broccoli sprouts. The results of those lab tests caught his attention, and before the ink was dry on his retirement letter to the sport of distance running, the Olympic silver medallist and American record holder was right back in the world of high performance. But while he’d spent a pro career focused on running as fast as possible, this new chapter would be all about helping other athletes reach their full potential, as he became head of athlete relations for Nomio, the Swedish company behind the broccoli-powered super supplement. Today on The Shakeout Podcast, Evan joins us to talk about how a move to Sweden set the stage for an improbable post-career pivot, what the transition to life after pro running has looked like and what it was about that first experience with a shot of broccoli juice that had him diving back into the heart of high performance sport just as quickly as he’d left.

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Evan Jager: An Olympic medallist, a Swedish startup and the super supplement that's sweeping endurance sport is an episode from The Shakeout Podcast by David Stol.

This episode is 00:58:37 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2026.

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