Olympic rower Kim Crow spoke to Richmond players and coaches on Thursday, fresh from her World Cup single sculls win in Switzerland earlier this week.

Crow, 27, is a world champion and Olympic medallist, having won silver in the women’s double scull and bronze in the women’s single scull at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

She also achieved a silver medal in double sculls at both the 2010 and 2011 World Championships, and is the hot favourite to take out next month's World Championships in South Korea.

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Crow spoke to the players about her journey, and the challenges she faced on the way to achieving her Olympic success.

Beginning her sporting career as a 400m hurdler, Crow switched to rowing in 2004 after injury halted her athletics career.

A talented individual on and off the water, Crow also achieved a perfect VCE score of 99.95, studied both Law and Media and Communications at Melbourne University, and is now a fully qualified lawyer.

For Crow, Olympic success is the pinnacle of her hard work and training, and she spoke candidly to the players about being able to perform at your best, at the right moment in your career.

“The Olympics is super special, it’s once every four years and it’s what we work towards for the entire four-year cycle,” Crow told Richmond’s Dan Jackson in a ‘Roar Vision’ interview.

“You can be good at something, but to be at your best on a certain day is a huge challenge.

“The Olympic Games was an amazing feeling. To have such a long journey to get there, and then to perform when it really mattered, was something really special,” she said.

Crow also has a special connection to the Essendon Football Club, where her father Max played 136 VFL games from 1974–1982, before crossing to St Kilda (1983-85) and ending his career at Footscray in 1986.

Click on the player above to watch Dan Jackson’s interview with Kim Crow.