Where Olympian soccer player Kelley O'Hara keeps her gold medals

Only a small percentage of athletes can regard themselves as Olympians. Even a smaller fraction of that can consider them world champions of their sport. Kelley O'Hara is both.

The 28-year-old soccer player has solidified herself as the best of the best, having been a part of the U.S. national team that has won not only a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics in London, but has also nabbed a world championship trophy at the FIFA World Cup in 2014. And just last week, O'Hara wrapped up her second Olympic games with the U.S. women's soccer team.

So, once you've won the biggest competitions in the world, what do you do with all your medals? AOL.com had a chance to chat with the elite athlete while on her road to Rio, where answered that question, compared her World Cup and Olympic experiences and more!

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You've won the World Cup and the Olympics. Do you have a win that was more meaningful than the other?
They're just so different. We came off 2011 being runner-up at the World Cup and then 2012, we won a gold medal at the Olympics. So for me, that was my first win on the world stage and to be a part of Team USA and to have a gold medal was just beyond belief and I felt like all of my dreams had come true. But then, you turn around and we had the World Cup last summer and thinking about winning seemed like it was in reach, but at the same time, a huge goal. To be able to accomplish that was pretty incredible and to win a World Cup because so few players can say that they've done that. So, they're just very different.

What was the reaction like to you when you arrived back to the U.S. after winning the World Cup?
It was insane, we obviously know that our whole country was behind us. We have had amazing fan support the entire time I've been on the team and it's grown over the years, but I think just the general frenzy around it was way more than I expected it to be. We got the keys to the city, we had a rally in L.A, just everything was ten times more than I thought it would be, which was really cool. It was nice to just soak it up for a while and just enjoy the win. But then, even off the field, after we had won, I was already starting to think about the Olympics. But it was nice to be able to enjoy that win not just with the team, but with the U.S. in general.

Where do you keep your trophies?
Everyone gets a gold medal for the Olympics and that's just sitting on my dresser. They give you a nice display box to put it in and then you get a medal for winning the World Cup, but of course, U.S. Soccer gets to keep the actual World Cup. Unfortunately, we don't all get to have a little piece of it, but I did lobby for us to each have it for a week to share with friends and family - almost like joint custody - but no one really went for that idea. But my medals are just wrapped around a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label because they engraved a bottle for us. It was a cool gift.

How do you balance your professional and personal lives?
I love to surf. We're growing a garden at my house in Jersey, so I'm getting into that. Being able to surround myself with really good and uplifting people is a way that I've been able to keep going and keep grinding out because it really is a grind at times.

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