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Chris Chavez and Anderson Emerole chat it up on Memorial Day to bring you a recap of all the sprints + field events action that took place at the Prefontaine Classic.
Among the highlights:
– Sha'Carri Richardson took down a STACKED field at the Prefontaine Classic and puts any doubts about her early season form to rest with a decisive 10.83 victory in the women’s 100m. Richardson looked smooth while Olympic champ Elaine Thompson-Herah struggled, finishing 9th in 11.30.
– Joe Kovacs puts the world on alert with the first 23-meter throw of the season, launching a 23.13m effort in the final round of the men's shot put competition to set a new world lead.
– Grant Holloway keeps his incredible 2024 going with a world-leading 13.03 victory in the 110m hurdles. USA puts 3 in front of Olympic champ Hansle Parchment with Daniel Roberts (13.13) and Freddie Crittenden (13.16) rounding out the top spots.
– Christian Coleman runs his best 100m of the season, holding off Ferdinand Omanyala 9.95 to 9.98 to clock his best time of the season.
+ more highlights from the meet
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We've decided to bring back This Week In Track and Field. CITIUS MAG's newest contributor, Anderson Emerole (who heads The Final Leg YouTube channel) will co-host every week as we riff on the biggest news stories and results in track and field.
In this week's show (since it was a slower week of results and news):
– We introduce Anderson to our audience a bit more formally
– Anderson shares a bit about his trip to Kingston, Jamaica for The ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships, which is known as Champs and is Jamaica's biggest sporting event.
– What it was like interviewing Usain Bolt, Elaine Thompson-Herah and other stars
– An early assessment of the men's and women's sprints scene
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Kevin discusses a big Michael Norman race, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Sha'Carri Richardson both running well in the 100m, Trayvon Bromell's emphatic victory and all the other highlights from the 2022 Prefontaine Classic.
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Sha'Carri Richardson races for the first time in 2022, Oblique Seville gives the Jamaican men a 100m medal threat, Elaine Thompson-Herah races in Jamaica after withdrawing from the Diamond League and all-time U.S. 800m performances.
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Gordon and Kevin discuss Ewa Swoboda beating Elaine Thompson-Herah, Trayvon Bromell challenging Tyreek Hill and a mystery that upended the distance running world.
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Kevin and Gordon discuss Elaine Thompson Herah's first indoor 60m of the year, Great Britain losing their men's 4x100m Olympic silver and more fast high school times.
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Gordon and Kevin discuss Jakob Ingebrigtsen breaking the 1500m world record indoors, the invincible Grant Holloway, Eliud Kipchoge running in Tokyo, Elaine Thompson-Herah's chances at the world record and Blessing Okagbare's 10-year ban.
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Kevin and Gordon discuss Cooper Teare going pro, debate Karsten Warholm and Elaine Thompson-Herah winning World Athletics Athlete of the Year and preview a busy week of racing.
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Gordon and Kevin look at the final NCAA XC rankings, discuss Erik Kynard finally getting his 2012 Olympic gold medal and analyze Elaine Thompson-Herah's coaching change.
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Gordon and Kevin discuss Elaine Thompson-Herah's coaching situation and Shalane Flanagan running another marathon. Also, Gordon talks with new Penn Relays Director, Steve Dolan.
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Kevin and Gordon discuss the reporting around Elaine Thompson-Herah's future, the most valuable athletes in track and field and the status of the Bowerman Track Club.
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Kevin and Gordon discuss the results of the Paris Diamond League, a world record in half marathon and awkward encounters involving pro runners.
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Justin Gatlin trains with Sha’Carri Richardson under coach Dennis Mitchell and is a polarizing figure in his own right, having served two doping bans during his long career. Since the early 2000s, Gatlin has been a world-class sprinter with a Jamaican rivalry of his own and battled Usain Bolt at several global championships. I caught up with him in the mixed zone at Hayward Field (which is why the audio isn't as clear) to briefly chat about how long he plans to continue going but also what it’s like to watch Sha'Carri come up as the next sprints star for the United States. He knows what it's like to be in the media spotlight and public’s crosshairs, where Sha'Carri found herself after her last-place finish at the Pre Classic behind the Jamaican sweep of the podium and Elaine Thompson-Herah’s 10.54 No. 2 all-time mark.
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The kids are alright! The evening session of day 5 did not disappoint with a jam-packed schedule that included four finals. This episode, Chris, Kyle and Dana unpack a near world record by Mondo Duplantis who finally wins gold, 19-year-olds racing to 800-meter perfection in Athing Mu and Keely Hodgkinson and the golden 100/200 double by Elaine Thompson-Herah.
The evening session back in the United States featured a long-awaited clash between Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad as a rematch of the U.S. Olympic Trials.
More things discussed include:
- Never dount the championship mindset of Anita Wlodarczyk
- Why Joe Kovacs made Chris sweat a little bit in the first round of the men's shot put
- We need to figure out Ivy league school has the most Olympic track medals?
– How good did all three American men in the 200-meter semifinal look
– Major takeaways from the first round of the men's 5,000 meters
– Why we need to watch Chris Nielsen vs. Sam Kendricks for years to come
– Athing Mu is already talking about world records and doubling at the 2024 Olympics in Paris
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