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And this week in track and 23 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:31,640 field, we're getting ready for the opening of the 2026 Diamond 24 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,640 League season. The season will open up in China 25 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,800 with a double header. You got Shanghai and Kekiao, I 26 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,800 guess is how they're pairing. The first one on May 16th, 27 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:50,960 followed by Xiamen on May 23rd before the tour goes on to move 28 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,920 through Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the US. 29 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,800 Originally the first stop was going to be Doha, which was 30 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,400 slated for last week, but then it got cancelled I guess due to 31 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,840 all of the conflict in the Middle East. 32 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,560 So a little bit of a delayed start, which I've kind of felt, 33 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,720 right. It's felt quiet overall in the 34 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,760 news and results scene, right? Yeah, the last week or so has 35 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:22,640 been quiet. Obviously. 36 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:27,040 We had a bunch of meetings kind of couple of weeks ago, 2-3 37 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,920 weeks ago and they say there were lots of little results 38 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:30,600 popping out. There were a couple of meets 39 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,240 this weekend, but nothing, nothing massive. 40 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,520 I think I'll probably get some gets me if I don't mention the 41 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,680 Belfast Classic, but that that's actually quite a popular meet. 42 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,560 But then they had a few few scratches and stuff, so it 43 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,840 wasn't quite the fields weren't quite as strong as as they often 44 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,360 are. Isn't that weird? 45 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,520 Like Keeley ran like a 400 like 2 years ago or something like 46 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:52,600 that. Quite possibly. 47 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,600 So it's the one. It's the place where Phoebe Gill 48 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,560 ran her breakout race a couple of years ago as well. 49 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,840 And so, yeah, there's often some fun, fun stuff that happens 50 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,120 there. I guess most notable result of 51 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:09,320 the entire weekend on the track, Quincy Wilson running a 300 52 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:14,320 hurdles race, which bubbled up a little bit of chatter in our 53 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,520 group chat. So for context, the high school 54 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,120 400 meter record holder and Olympic gold medalist ran the 55 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,920 300m hurdles for the first time at his high school league meet 56 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:36,200 and he won it in 38 .77, which came about 30 minutes or so 57 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:43,640 after he ran 45.8 in the open 400 and which he won that one I 58 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,760 think easily it helped Bullis win the league title. 59 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,400 And this one, this is kind of I guess the meet were in the past 60 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,240 we've seen him run some 4 by eights. 61 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:02,680 So when the result popped up, I was more like, oh, OK, cool. 62 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,360 Like he's having fun. He's in his senior year. 63 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,680 And then I guess we got onto a little bit more of a serious 64 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:19,160 discussion on should Quincy Wilson explore the hurdles in 65 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:24,760 the future. And honestly, solid question. 66 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,480 I think, all things considered, where what do what do you think? 67 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,520 I guess they're they're I didn't see the full race footage. 68 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,800 I saw like maybe a 5 second clip of him going over the hurdles 69 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,480 and it solved the problem of, you know, his head usually tilts 70 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,800 upward when he's running the open 4. 71 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,800 This time around I think he's got to kept keep it a little 72 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,480 lower so he can keep track of the hurdles ahead of him but got 73 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,000 over them and he won the race. Yeah. 74 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,080 And I think I I know, I thought, I thought that might be one of 75 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,280 the reasons why he's doing it. Well, maybe his his coaches are 76 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,840 suggesting he does it because it actually makes him like it might 77 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,440 affect his form, which in a positive way. 78 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,480 So I don't know whether that's that's the rationale, but it 79 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,040 could be one of the things that's that's in the mix that as 80 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,200 to why they did it. But yeah, I mean, it's 81 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,560 definitely an interesting question because, yeah, as we 82 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,200 were saying on the group chat, like behind Rye Benjamin, the 83 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,640 you know, we have got some really good 400 meter hurdlers, 84 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,000 but they haven't really liked Trevor Bassett obviously meddled 85 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,520 a couple of years ago. But you know, since then we 86 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,240 haven't really had had kind of that, you know, them them 87 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,640 actually really breaking through into to getting close to the 88 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,040 medal podium. So and making the team is 89 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,920 probably just that little bit possibly easier if you're if 90 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,160 you're if you're, if you're on good form, whilst maybe the 400 91 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,040 team, actually making the team might be harder than making 92 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,960 making the final a World Championships for Olympics. 93 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,160 And that's where it's a little bit. 94 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,280 Well, I suppose given what we saw in Botswana, that may all 95 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,760 change over the next couple of years. 96 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,240 But but who knows? But at the very least right that 97 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,920 it is a little bit tougher to to make those teams. 98 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:12,800 And the question is, can he get back to his 44 low shape? 99 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,960 Can he then go beyond that and sort of deliver that at the 100 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,320 right, right point in the season to to make those teams? 101 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,160 And that that's the kind of tricky part, right. 102 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,560 So, yeah, obviously what whatever he does, we want him to 103 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,200 succeed. And, and yeah, there's a little 104 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,360 bit of playing the game when you're when you're AUS athlete 105 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,520 of actually maybe that's that's another route you can take. 106 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:40,480 In this year, I guess you can chalk it up to him having just 107 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,440 more fun and letting the kid be a kid because like there was 108 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,960 just so much pressure over the last sort of two years with 109 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:53,000 2024. Obviously the excitement around 110 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,400 making making it through the trials and round by round, the 111 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,200 build up of him potentially making this team, making the 112 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,320 relay pool, getting to compete at the the Paris Olympics. 113 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,000 And so that was a lot. And then carried over into his 114 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,520 junior year where, you know, anything but making the relay 115 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,760 pool again would have been seen as a disappointment. 116 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,440 And I I don't think he made the final. 117 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:22,160 And so I guess like he's just, yeah, I guess you got to 118 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,000 remember still 18 years old by the time the next trials roll 119 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:32,360 around, he's barely 20. And is that it? 120 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,480 Like, who else is going to be in the mix for the 400 team, you 121 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,880 presume? You know, he's you've still got 122 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,120 Quincy, Quincy Hall, the Olympic champion. 123 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,880 I hope Vernon goes all the way through 2028. 124 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:52,440 But behind that, there's just sort of like 5 or 6 different 125 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,560 guys who can all fill that spot. And we've got guys who've won 126 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,040 medals at the World Indoor Championships, Jacory Patterson 127 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,280 as well. So it's a crowded picture where 128 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:11,840 now you've got a year and a half to maybe give the 400 hurdles a 129 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,560 little bit more of a serious run. 130 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,920 You know, I think Mack was the one who brought it up. 131 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:22,280 He could easily kind of fit the same build as Bershawn Jackson, 132 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,200 who was wildly successful for the United States world 133 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,840 champion, I believe, too. And let's see. 134 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:39,559 So Quincy's 400 flat PR is 4410. Brashawn Jackson was a 45 O 6 135 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,679 runner, but then in the 400 hurdles, he's 4730. 136 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:49,240 He's a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games, 2005 world 137 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,000 champion. Yeah, Quincy could be the next 138 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,160 Batman. I could see that. 139 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,080 It's just sort of like you said, does he want to go that route? 140 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,720 The 400's obviously the sexier event. 141 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:10,520 And you also have more of a route to the relay pool as well 142 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,760 by contesting that at the trials versus the 400 hurdles. 143 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,120 If you finish 6th at the 400 hurdles at the US Olympic 144 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,000 Trials, I don't necessarily think you're in contention to 145 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,360 make the four, the 4 by 4 relay pool. 146 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,640 So you run that risk. So yeah, we'll we'll, I guess 147 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,440 we'll we'll see. It's just kind of it's funny to 148 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,520 take this down such a serious route where in reality it was 149 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,920 probably just like, hey, I'm just having fun and scoring 150 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,280 points for my team at this meet rarely gets the chance to to 151 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,400 triple. I mean, the kid played a 152 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,000 football game earlier this year. I was more worried about that 153 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,640 where sort of like we don't want a Wade Van Niekerk situation 154 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:53,240 where gets hurt during AI won't say meaningless because I'm sure 155 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,800 it meant a lot to to the kids participating in the game. 156 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,360 But over in the in the bigger picture, yeah, it was a 157 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,720 meaningless game. So no, I thought that that was 158 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,560 really fun. But also now kind of does beg 159 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:06,880 the question of just sort of like, should he maybe give this 160 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,880 a more serious look in the in the future? 161 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,000 And I believe they're writing about it for the lap count that 162 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,760 comes out tomorrow about just kind of like the 400 hurdles as 163 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,080 an event. And I did kind of pick up on 164 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,640 just sort of like if you're a really good 400 runner and any 165 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,280 other country, if we're in a hurdle hurdler for another 166 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,280 country, chances are you might often times just get pushed to 167 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:36,160 run the 400 because there might be less hurdlers. 168 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,440 You you open up the chance to field a full 4 by 4 team. 169 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:46,400 So it's this event that unless you have not as much 400 debt 170 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:54,400 depth and you can see yourself being in the top, you know, in 171 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,280 the world championship or Olympic caliber of making that 172 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,720 final, you often times I guess don't get too many countries 173 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,480 fielding three guys on a 400 hurdle squad at a global 174 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,840 championship. So it's such a, yeah, I guess 175 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,560 like the popularity of the 400 hurdles, as much as I enjoy 176 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:18,720 watching the event, probably isn't there on a on a global 177 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,000 landscape. Yeah, you're right. 178 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,720 I mean, it, it, it maybe isn't though. 179 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,440 We have seen quite a lot of 400 hurdlers in sort of the relay 180 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,800 pools for various teams and that, you know, they, they seem 181 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,800 to do do quite well. The Brits have a few the 182 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,520 obviously the, the, the Belgians and stuff. 183 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:42,200 So, yeah. But yeah, you're right that, you 184 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,800 know, people will kind of run both and and try and figure out 185 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,040 their route to making a global championships. 186 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,680 And you know that that does vary because obviously there are some 187 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,120 people who are rhythm runners who kind of like that, you know, 188 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,560 that the hurdles works for them because they don't necessarily 189 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:02,800 have to have that that raw speed that a 400 runner may have to 190 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,600 have at sort of at you know, to 200 or whatever. 191 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,200 So that that is that's the difference. 192 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,600 And yeah, so people will will choose their event. 193 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,240 But at the same time, yeah, you're right that there is more 194 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,880 maybe glory in the 400 and easier route to the relays, 195 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,000 etcetera, etcetera. So. 196 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:23,840 If Norway or Brazil was better in the four by four years ago as 197 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,920 Warholm and Dos Santos were coming along, there's a chance 198 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,160 that those guys probably just end up being 400 runners. 199 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:34,640 Although like you, you can spot they did end up becoming world 200 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,400 and Olympic champions which is hard to pass up on. 201 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,880 Customers in decathletes so. Oh, that's true. 202 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:41,200 Yeah. Yeah. 203 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,120 So. So he was, he kind of does 204 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,520 anything and everything really, but. 205 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,240 And DeSantis showed some really good 400 speed last year in the 206 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,200 flat 4. So. 207 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,440 Yeah. So all right, well, that was 1 208 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,360 result that I guess just kind of generated chatter for us over 209 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,560 the weekend. Other news stories that I think 210 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:02,440 have come about. I did see this morning that 211 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,280 Grant Holloway posted on Instagram. 212 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,200 People have been wondering where is the reigning Olympic 110 213 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,960 hurdles champion? And I saw him about a month or 214 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,560 two ago out in Gainesville, so I knew this. 215 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:18,600 But he had a torn hamstring earlier this year. 216 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,400 He's been working his way back. So that's why he hasn't been 217 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:28,000 racing a whole lot. There was I guess some setbacks 218 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,280 in behind the recovery, but also like when we've seen some of 219 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,240 these documentaries and and athletes speaking out about just 220 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,000 sort of that post Olympic depression. 221 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,240 Grant spoke about that I think in the Grandstand magazine that 222 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,480 the University of Florida's sports journalism department put 223 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,360 out really good story. And I think he felt comfortable 224 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,120 because he's like, all right, I'm just going to speak to this 225 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,800 University of Florida student reporter and maybe, you know, 226 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,160 the track media doesn't catch wind of it, but you know, it's 227 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,880 it's out there and it's online and he was very open and honest 228 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,040 really good story about just sort of navigating what 2025 229 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,320 look like what motivates him. And so he missed the indoor 230 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,280 season. We didn't get to see him defend, 231 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,600 you know, his gold medal at the world indoor championships 232 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,000 extend that streak that he's had going. 233 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,720 But I think that for the longer term, you hope that he can find 234 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:36,480 sort of that that fire to train and to compete again, because he 235 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,760 is always like one of the most entertaining guys. 236 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:44,160 But at the same time, he's been at this thing for since he was 237 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,000 really, really good in high school. 238 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,880 I, I don't know, like there the, the problem with the 2028 LA 239 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,800 Olympics is that it's such a big moment for American athletes 240 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:01,080 that I feel like there's a lot of pressure to keep going and 241 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,360 see it through and, and, and stretch your career out. 242 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,600 But I wouldn't I, I guess I'll be the one of the first people 243 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,680 to float it if Grant decided to retire, totally fine. 244 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,720 The dudes had one hell of a career. 245 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,080 If this injury does end up, you know, turning out to be a bit 246 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:24,520 more serious than than he thought, coming back is really, 247 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,160 really hard against the field that he's up against. 248 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,760 To make the US 110 hurdles team, you got to be Cordell Tinch, the 249 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,400 reigning world champion, Trey Cunningham is looking fantastic. 250 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:40,640 You got that squad of Daniel Roberts, Freddie Crittenden, 251 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,280 Jamal Britt, all these different guys who like are always in the 252 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,880 mix. Dylan Beard. 253 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:57,080 And it's it's hard when you look at Grant's career Olympic 254 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,560 champion, many time world champion, Olympic silver 255 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,640 medalist, world record holder. The only thing that's missing 256 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,680 from him being the greatest of all time probably is that that 257 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:15,360 world record, which is probably what it could take to, you know, 258 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:21,360 be among the best, be among the best in America now. 259 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:26,640 So, yeah, wouldn't blame him if he decided, hey, all right, 260 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,120 Like, it's been really, really hard to get over this Olympic 261 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,880 disappointment. I think I'm going to call it a 262 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,880 career. That's fine. 263 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,080 I think, yeah, I mean, I think he'd said already that this year 264 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,480 he might try some different stuff. 265 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,720 So I think he was planning on running the flat 60 indoors this 266 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,360 season. And and obviously as an because 267 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,360 he's kind of done everything other than the world record, it 268 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,360 sort of made sense for him to do, you know, to do to do to do 269 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,640 something different this year. Like there there wasn't much 270 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,000 value in especially in a year like this year where it is quite 271 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,120 and quite enough here it it does. 272 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,560 But yeah, I, I, yes, coming back for LA is, is going to be on 273 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,240 his, on his radar clearly as, as it is for pretty much I imagine 274 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,560 any American athlete who's kind of looking at making that team. 275 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,839 And yeah, I, I really do hope we see him back and, and doing cool 276 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:19,440 things. We want to see him extend that 277 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,960 unbeaten run in there in the indoors 60 hurdles and and yeah, 278 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:26,200 that that world record is something that would be would be 279 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,240 great to see next year if he gets back into shape. 280 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:33,800 I read all those names and I did say Jacoby Tharp, who's likely 281 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:39,240 going to break Grant's NCAA record, which we all thought I 282 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,520 think would probably stand for a while. 283 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,760 But yeah, I mean, like to come back, you got to beat Jacoby 284 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,480 Tharp, Cordell Tinch, Trey Cunningham. 285 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:53,080 It's really, really hard. You got to be on your A game. 286 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:58,880 And so I guess we'll see what comes of the 2026 season for for 287 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,080 Grant. He was announced for the pre 288 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:04,200 Classic. I don't know. 289 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,000 I kind of doubt that that would be still on the table given this 290 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,840 latest injury update. So hope he takes all the time he 291 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,120 needs to get himself both physically and mentally right if 292 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:18,760 he wants to continue this thing going. 293 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:24,800 But if it if we've already seen the best of Grant Holloway, then 294 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,960 super happy, I guess with with how I would I I'd take this 295 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,400 career. I think many people would so 296 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,680 many medals. So there was that. 297 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:40,520 The other news story I saw was that cross country will not be 298 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:47,320 added to the Winter Olympics. The IOC confirmed that trail 299 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:52,360 running, cross country running, cyclocross, gravel cycling will 300 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,640 not be added for the 2030 Games in the French Alps. 301 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,200 Sounded like Christy Coventry, the IOC president, wasn't really 302 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:10,440 going for, you know, these innovative ways of crossing over 303 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,320 with sports that are not necessarily always run on, They 304 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,880 need snow, they need ice was basically one of the big key 305 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,520 points. And so it's not on the table. 306 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,240 Funniest comment I think on our Instagram post is Katie Izzo 307 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:31,760 with like 3 crying emojis because if there was a world 308 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,040 cross country, I mean a Olympic cross country team to make, 309 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:38,040 she's someone who knows how to make cross country teams. 310 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,840 So I'm sure she would have been jazzed up about that. 311 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:48,600 But the good news is that the door isn't 100% shut. 2034 seems 312 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,600 to be a potential Ave. That's when the games will go to 313 00:19:52,760 --> 00:20:01,160 Salt Lake City, which if the USOPC has some pull, Cidco is no 314 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,840 longer, I guess, you know, really calling shots. 315 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,120 And this is one of his big things that he wanted to see. 316 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,960 So this isn't even part of his legacy. 317 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,280 You got to wonder, like, who's going to be the person 318 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,440 championing to get this in for a Winter Olympics? 319 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,000 But I don't know. It doesn't really sound all that 320 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,600 likely right now. Instead, like, there's nothing 321 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,480 wrong with like, propping up the world's cross country 322 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,240 championships. Let's just have more of those. 323 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:29,960 Yeah, obviously. Yeah, we're missing a year, 324 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,080 aren't we? So yeah, it's sort of like we're 325 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:33,680 waiting three years for the next World cross country. 326 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,080 But I mean, to be honest, it doesn't surprise me in the 327 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,800 slightest. I think there's two things here. 328 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,640 1 is as a new president of the IOC, you would have to to put 329 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,360 because it required a change the Olympic Charter. 330 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,040 It was always going to be tough to get that push through and 331 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,560 organized for the 2030 games. And because because these 332 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,680 organisations move slowly and also when it comes to the Winter 333 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,400 Olympics, obviously there are some nations that put in a lot 334 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,040 of the money, a lot of the the support for it. 335 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,920 And they are all wealthy nations that are wildly successful at 336 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,200 winter sports. And that is the likes of a 337 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,600 Norway and a Switzerland and a Canada and, and, and whatever. 338 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,200 And they're, they're not going to be keen for that status quo 339 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,360 to change, right. And the other part of it is, 340 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:26,400 yeah, changing Olympic chart is really big and it requires 341 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:27,720 whatever you do. Like, if you're going to push 342 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,440 through something like this as an IOC president, it takes a lot 343 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,760 of political capital, right? And and I think and frankly, 344 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,920 like, unfortunately, the African nations in terms of their kind 345 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,400 of audience or financial pull to say, oh, let's increase the 346 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,760 audience in this part of the world by having loads of African 347 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,960 athletes, for example, compete and cross country. 348 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:56,120 That isn't something that is necessarily, you know, there's 349 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:57,720 no money talking there, unfortunately. 350 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:03,720 So I think in in a world where money was talking or where the 351 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,400 US or someone with a lot more political kind of capital within 352 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,040 the the IOC was, was kind of pushing for it, that would 353 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:14,760 possibly make it a bit easier. So who knows, maybe as I say, 354 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:20,560 maybe 2034, it does happen because of the location people 355 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,240 were speculating could be why you get their own separate team 356 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,720 from the US team just if it's in Salt Lake City. 357 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:31,680 But yeah, yeah, no, if it if it does come, that'll that'll be a 358 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,680 lot of fun. The US track and field 359 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:42,600 Championships schedule is out. I just sent it over in our in 360 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:48,120 our group chat so I haven't necessarily had time to take a 361 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:52,960 close look or process this, but I did just drop it into ChatGPT 362 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,920 as we were discussing there to see like hey, what double S are 363 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:02,280 possible if you want the 815 double. 15 finals on Saturday, 364 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,360 800 finals on Sunday. Doable, but I need to know 365 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:13,160 rounds this thing doesn't know prelims and stuff. 1-2 possible, 366 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:22,120 24 pretty tight. We'll have to take a closer look 367 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:31,600 at this, but clean double s are 1/2 the 24 815 and 15 five Ki 368 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:37,920 guess Yeah, you could pull it off Steeple 5K5K10K. 369 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,080 We'll probably do a much deeper dive into this later on, but the 370 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,840 schedule's out for people wondering. 371 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,120 It's not loading for me, so maybe they've taken it down 372 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:48,640 again, who knows. Oh. 373 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,160 Disappeared. Well I I've got it I guess. 374 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:56,200 Screenshot it then and tickets go on sale soon, I think. 375 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,480 So I'm hoping New York has a great turn out because we need 376 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,520 to show USATF, We need to show the world that we can host a 377 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,000 good championship outside of Eugene. 378 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,520 So we're currently working through potential Citius Mag 379 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,720 plans for the US Championships and I really want it to be, you 380 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,800 know, a fun weekend for track fans. 381 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:24,880 So stay put on all of that. All right, So those are the news 382 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,840 stories, I think that took place over the last couple days. 383 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,920 Did I miss anything else? Nothing, nothing exciting. 384 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,480 Obviously there's been some silly stuff floating around out 385 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,320 there on on our across our timeline. 386 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,200 So I guess like what have have too much time on their hands? 387 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,760 There's I've seen the Sebastian Saway versus Rachel Entrekin 388 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,960 discussion and then there's also been the where. 389 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,280 Do you fall on that? I want obviously Rachel 390 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,760 Enterprint for anyone who isn't hasn't been following this whole 391 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,680 thing. One the was it the coca donor 392 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:59,560 turn 50 mile and beat all the men by you know, the next person 393 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,120 in was an hour and 20 minutes behind her. 394 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:06,720 She completed in 56 hours and she it was insane and she slept. 395 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,560 She had a couple of seven minute power naps in that whole time 396 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,240 and then just kept going. So she didn't sleep well. 397 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,000 A lot of the other, I think one of the, the person who came in 398 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,960 behind her, I think he tried to follow her strategy and fell 399 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,920 asleep for an hour or whatever and that he lost a load of time. 400 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:27,960 So I, yeah, I, I mean, if you're training for 250 miles, which 401 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,800 is, it's just a whole different ball game, right? 402 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,560 You're literally 56 hours turn 50 miles, you're basically 403 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,200 walking in a, you know, you're not running that much quicker 404 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,360 than walking pace, right? You were, you were basically 405 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:45,320 jogging and, and, and, and and just keeping going. 406 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,920 And that's a very different skill to actually running with a 407 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,200 kind of a smooth cadence, obviously over terrain as well. 408 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,440 So it's a very different skill to something like what Sebastian 409 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,680 Sawy trains for. So if you were to put them in 410 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,560 their current fitness in the same race, I would be very, I 411 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,120 would be very surprised if Rachel Entrecan did not win. 412 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,480 However, you know, obviously if he trained for it, I think it's 413 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,520 a different ball game. But yeah, yeah, without any 414 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,440 training, I don't see it. I think people get too caught up 415 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,880 on thinking he would just run crazy fast out of the gates, 416 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:29,520 build out a build up a big buffer that she can't make up 417 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,880 and he'd be able to hold on. That's not. 418 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,080 That's not how this would would work like running. 10 marathons, 419 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,320 10 marathons in a row. It's insane, right? 420 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:40,880 It's basically 10 marathons in a row. 421 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,040 It's absolutely bananas. So like, yeah, it's it's a very 422 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,800 different, it's it's not the same sport. 423 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,680 Like if it was 100 mile or something, there's there's 424 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,640 probably a better chance of that happening, right? 425 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:52,200 You can. Right. 426 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,040 That's all. But that's the the separate 427 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,840 conversation where I feel like typically us track folks would 428 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:05,760 get in trouble if we said, yeah, I mean, drop Elliott Kipchogi in 429 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,920 the Western states, 100 and he's winning. 430 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,600 I think that there's a degree of training that needs to take 431 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,840 place. I don't think he needs as much 432 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,960 time to refine his skill set to be specific to trail and ultra 433 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,200 running for 100. Miller, that's maybe a little 434 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,600 bit different. I mean, when I went to Kenya and 435 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,360 I saw some of the roads that they were running on it, it's 436 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,920 I'm there constantly trying not to break an ankle. 437 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,920 These people are gliding over every single, you know, hole in 438 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:45,560 the, in the dirt and stuff. So they, it wouldn't if, if 439 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,400 Kipchoge decided to sign up for Western States and he gave him 440 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,760 six months, of course he's going to win. 441 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:57,160 I'm saying I'm thinking more 2023 to 20, 2019, 2019 to 2023. 442 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,800 Kipchoge nowadays, maybe he might be on the other side of 443 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,280 things, but same thing with SAWE. 444 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,760 But 250 miles. 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I don't know how many, I don't 507 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,960 know the exact thing, but basically that you would have to 508 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,800 stop and shoot a leg of darts, which is scoring 501 points on 509 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,560 the darts board and then carry on running. 510 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,920 And so that's the discussion of would may Farah be able to beat 511 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,400 Luke Littler over 1/2 marathon in that in that circumstance, 512 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,920 which which is vodka and Luke, Luke Littler, let's just say he 513 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,960 doesn't have a runner's build, but. 514 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,640 Did he win BBC Sports Personality of the Year last 515 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,360 year? I wouldn't be surprised if he 516 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,480 did because he was what, 1617 years old and he won the darts 517 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,200 World Championships. And yeah, it's, it's a pretty 518 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,440 like fun, cool story. I'm just trying to pull up the 519 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,680 exact kind of. Thing How do you feel about a 520 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:38,680 darts player winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year? 521 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,360 I mean, I think, look, the whole point is to kind of capture the 522 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,600 moments that capture people's imagination across the year in, 523 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,680 in sport, right? And darts, you know, you may, 524 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,240 some people will not think of it as a real sport, But I mean, I 525 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,680 was enjoying the snooker World Championships last week as well, 526 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,040 right? It like us Brits enjoy those 527 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,240 kind of sports as well. And there's a there's a big 528 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,360 culture of those kind of things. And so I think it's big here. 529 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,680 Whether it whether it's big anywhere else or not doesn't 530 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,600 doesn't really matter, but I don't mind it. 531 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,920 I think it was, again, it was just a great story that that 532 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:25,080 just showed it also kind of captures something about to 533 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,760 achieve something cool like that, you don't have to be like 534 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,360 a sports person in the conventional sense. 535 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,680 You don't have a conventional build and like be like, you 536 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,720 know, full of muscle or like whatever, right? 537 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,040 It's, it's a very different kind of thing. 538 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,960 And I think that's, that's cool. I, I don't think there's 539 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,120 anything wrong with it. And some people I know will, 540 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,280 will disagree with that. But but yeah, I, I, if it 541 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,200 happened every year, might, might be like, Nah, not really, 542 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,600 but I think I was a one off. I think it's cool. 543 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,600 So I needed to get a visual of what Luke Littler looks like. 544 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,600 So he's apparently 5873 kilograms. 545 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,320 What's that? And 161 lbs. 546 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,520 Yeah, I'll take him. I I'll take him over Mauferra. 547 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,960 I think Mauferra like would take too long on the darts. 548 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:22,360 This is a it's it's a it's a survivor immunity challenge of 549 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,800 just like you have to do one thing before you're able to do 550 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,800 the the whole other. Luke litter would take would be 551 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,840 so quick on the darts that like he can buy himself enough time 552 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,040 on the run to get to the next mile marker. 553 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,719 If it was every 5K could be a different store. 554 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,120 Yeah, it's every mile I think. Yeah. 555 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,360 So the, the, the the debate is around every mile you have to 556 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,239 stop and and throw a leg of darts. 557 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,880 So that the suggestion is could Luke Littler do it in like 1 558 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,040 minute and my Farrell take 10 minutes? 559 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,639 Yeah. So with more than 5. 560 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,960 Minute mile, yeah, Mo Farah runs a 5 minute mile and takes 10 561 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,720 minutes to do the darts and Luke Littler maybe run, you know, 562 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,920 takes one minute to do the darts and runs a 15 minute mile. 15 563 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,440 minute mile Right so. 15 minute mile don't know like the dude. 564 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,040 But as in, like, if you've got to run 13 of them, right? 565 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,840 Like, yeah, but if you've got to run 13 of them, then maybe one 566 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,240 slower one's faster, right? Whatever. 567 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,080 Right. But yeah, I think this guy. 568 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:26,880 Could run in it like a 730 to 830 mile, take a break with the 569 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,480 darts and then get back up. Then it's a for him. 570 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:37,040 This is a 13 by 1 mile workout with like 9090 seconds rest. 571 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,240 Well, part of the debate is also like, would you get less 572 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:42,240 accurate as you got tired from the running? 573 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,440 Would he get less accurate with the darts, Right. 574 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,000 And so it'd take him longer to to do to throw. 575 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,440 Has he ever been blindfolded and like hit a bunch of bullseyes or 576 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,840 anything like that? I don't know, but yeah, it's a 577 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,040 fun. It's another fun. 578 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:58,200 Now if it was 5 every 5K then I'm taking Mo Farah. 579 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,680 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. 5K yeah, no, definitely. 580 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,520 But every, every mile, yeah. I think it's I think it's pretty 581 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,920 even. It'll be fun, especially if you 582 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,080 took current fitness. Mo Farah retired Mo Farah as as 583 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,560 opposed to kind of peak of his career Mo Farah. 584 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:19,800 This is just like what in America we did with Joey 585 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,400 Chestnut and Usain Bolt. Like who wins in 100 if he had 586 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,600 to eat a a hot dog, it was a hot dog eating contest and then run 587 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,080 100 down a hot dog and then run 100. 588 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,400 Who wins? How many times? 589 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,200 Just once. Just once. 590 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,000 Oh wow. Joey Chestnut wins. 591 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,080 You think? All right, OK. 592 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,760 Yeah, Joey Chestnut will take down 1 hot dog where he's used 593 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,160 to like Downing 70 in 10 minutes or whatever it is. 594 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,920 One is nothing and then he just goes and runs a 17 to 18. 595 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,760 Or you mean I'll give him 22nd 100? 596 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,360 Bolt is still halfway through chewing the hot dog. 597 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:08,560 Yeah, maybe, Maybe. Welcome to the City of Smack 598 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,520 podcast. This is the the tangent that we 599 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,960 ended up down. I'm not buying that one, but OK. 600 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,920 All right, let's get into the Diamond League series in. 601 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,360 Terms in terms of wild hypothetical matchups that we 602 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,320 want to see, we we have Keely Hodgkinson running 400 against 603 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,400 some of the best 4 hundreds in the 400 runners in the world at 604 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,040 the Rome Diamond League. So we're getting some of the 605 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,400 some of the fantasy matchups that we might want to see. 606 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,480 Yeah, I guess like big picture wise, like this is going to be a 607 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,360 year where you see athletes doing events that you don't 608 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,400 often times see them running. It seems to me like just based 609 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,400 off of the Diamond League announcement so far, Rye 610 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,160 Benjamin is committing 100% to most of his racing is going to 611 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,640 be the flat 400. I saw the announcement for Oslo. 612 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,200 I saw the announcement for what is it, Stockholm, as well as 613 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,320 he's going to run it there pre Classic. 614 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,920 He's he's running the 400. So this is the year where, you 615 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,160 know, my prediction had to be my bold prediction. 616 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,240 I think at the beginning of the year was Ryze going to win the 617 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,320 400 at World Ultimate Championships. 618 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,800 Kevin, the ship, he's going to be really tough to be tough to 619 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,400 be. I'm I'm pulling for it. 620 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,360 But yeah, you're going to see a lot of these match ups. 621 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,280 There's not at the Diamond League, but during the outdoor 622 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:30,160 season, A-150 in Ostrava with Noah Lyles and and gout gout, 623 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:35,320 gout big week for him. Got the 60 minutes feature and I 624 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,840 think they announced that he's on the Australian U20 team and 625 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,760 he'll run the four by four or he's in the he's in the relay 626 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,840 pool for that so he could come away with three gold medals at 627 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,040 the World U20 Championships he's. 628 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,040 Not selected for the 100. So how did I I? 629 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,680 I did have a mixed relay there as well. 630 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,400 I guess I don't know but. Oh, I don't, I, I just, Yeah. 631 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:56,600 He's not. He's only, he's only selected 632 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,680 for the 200. So he's only running 200 633 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,760 individually. But yeah, I don't know if they 634 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,160 have mixed relay and regular 4 by fours, yeah. 635 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,360 Regardless, I guess, yeah, I mean, this has been and then the 636 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,160 gout, gout. What other news did he make in 637 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,640 that piece? The details of his Adidas 638 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,560 contract got out where it's they said 7 million or or 8 million. 639 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,240 8 million over, you know, 4,000,000 / 8 years I. 640 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,120 Think 4,000,000 / 8 years, yeah, which sounds about right in, in 641 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:31,240 sort of my thinking. And so, yeah, you're starting to 642 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,960 see, I think him get a little bit more shine. 643 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,000 Shout out to John Wertheim. That was a really fun piece, 644 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,960 that 60 minutes team, because then I was talking to GAO Gout's 645 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,640 agent, James Templeton just briefly. 646 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:49,520 And they, they, they paid multiple visits to, you know, 647 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,920 tell, tell the story and, you know, it was really, really well 648 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,560 done. So thought that that was really 649 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,240 cool. Yeah. 650 00:39:58,240 --> 00:39:59,840 OK. So all throughout the outdoor 651 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,360 season, you'll see some world record attempts, I'm sure. 652 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,840 What? Faith in the Mile has already 653 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,720 been announced for the Prefontaine Classic on July 4th. 654 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,080 Femka Bowl will see over the 800 couple times, I think. 655 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,160 When did they announce her debut on the Diamond League? 656 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,560 I think, I don't know about the Diamond League. 657 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:27,400 They've announced her for the the Hangelow meet. 658 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,160 Yeah, that's. But, yeah, I think, well, maybe 659 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,440 it's worth just setting the seat, sort of setting the scene 660 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,080 a little bit for this year's outdoor season, right? 661 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,160 Because it's a bit of an unusual outdoor season. 662 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,160 And obviously we kick off with these diamond leagues in, you 663 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,520 know, 2 in China and then one in Rabat. 664 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,120 And then, you know, it kind of the the diamond leagues come 665 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,560 thick and fast. So then there's Rome and 666 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,960 Stockholm and Oslo. So that that kind of takes us 667 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,680 from mid-May to mid June. So that's kind of the first 668 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,200 month, a bunch of diamond leagues. 669 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,000 There's a couple of continental tall golds as well in there. 670 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,480 I think there is a then the weekend after that, I think that 671 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:15,320 weekend of the 20th, 21st of June, I think there is that's 672 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,000 when the Doha Diamond League has now been rescheduled to. 673 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,680 But I think that is also a now a national championships kind of 674 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,080 window. Possibly it's when the British 675 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,400 champs are taking place. I don't know if other national 676 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,000 champs will be taking there, but I suspect a lot of the European 677 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,160 national championships will be that weekend. 678 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,320 And then we run and I think there's is there a meet in the 679 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,920 USI think around then as well, like one of the the LA or it 680 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,240 might, might. Be which weekend? 681 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,760 20th, 21st of June I think. I'm seeing Portland Track 682 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:50,120 Festival, I see New Balance outdoor nationals, so that's 683 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,400 also the weekend of the U20 championships taking place 684 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:54,640 across the country. Yeah. 685 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,960 Yeah. And then we kind of have a 686 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,880 little bit more Diamond League. So we have Paris pre 28th of 687 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:06,960 June, pre Classic 4th of July, Monaco 10th of July and London 688 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,480 18th July. So it's kind of pretty heavy on 689 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,520 the Diamond Leagues up until that point. 690 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,600 And then there's quite a big hiatus and we'll get US champs, 691 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,560 I think. What are they, 20 something of 692 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,240 July, 23rd, 24th July, something like that. 693 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:26,360 And then that's also when the Commonwealth Games kind of kick 694 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,400 off 27th July. Yeah, to from that same, that 695 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,960 same week, the 27th July, I think the Commonwealth Games 696 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,040 kick off. So that's sort of a week 697 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:42,680 Commonwealth Games. And then there is another kind 698 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,120 of gap as well. So there's quite a big gap in 699 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,640 the Diamond League schedule. And then there's European 700 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,360 Championships from 10th to 16th August. 701 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:55,360 So I don't think there's any, any Diamond leagues. 702 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,800 There might be some continental tours in that window, but 703 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:02,920 basically from about mid-july to mid August there is quite a big 704 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:05,480 hiatus you're. Going to be wondering, I was 705 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,360 like, where are the Americans? The Americans are going to be at 706 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,320 like beach, the Beacon, Falmouth, Sir Walter Meyler. 707 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:17,200 But then there are a couple like you said, if they if there's 708 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,360 some athletes who base themselves out and like Louvin, 709 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,880 they'll bounce around to like Oregon meets like Court Trick 710 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,840 and Ghent, like all these different spots on the European 711 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,240 Sofia. Yeah, though I though I imagine 712 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,840 a lot of them will not, you know that I don't, I don't know if a 713 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,840 lot of the stuff will move around and schedule just to 714 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,600 avoid the European Championships because obviously they will not 715 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,480 want to be clashing with those. But obviously, yes, if you're a 716 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,040 Europe. So if you're a Commonwealth 717 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,960 athlete and we know like the Aussies, the Jamaicans and some 718 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,680 of the, the, the, I think the Kenyans and stuff, unfortunately 719 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,400 there's No 4 by 4 at the Commonwealth Games. 720 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,320 Otherwise that would have been really cool because we'd have 721 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,120 got Australia versus Botswana versus South Africa again. 722 00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,560 But there is no single gender 4x4. 723 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,280 There's only a mixed 4x4 there unfortunately. 724 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,640 But yeah, there's, there's a lot of a lot of those, those events 725 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,320 could be really good if everyone shows up that obviously we don't 726 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,560 know if everyone will. And then the European champs, 727 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,200 again, I think a lot of the track races could be very, very 728 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,120 strong indeed. And a lot of the field events, I 729 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,200 think that the European champs could be very, very strong as 730 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,080 well. So yeah, there's there's, 731 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:22,440 there's quite a lot happening there. 732 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,360 If you are either a Commonwealth athlete or a European athlete, 733 00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,760 there is a big championship to focus on and that might change 734 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,240 how we see what those athletes are doing. 735 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,120 And especially because a lot of them will be prepping for their 736 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,360 national champs in June as well. So their kind of season will be 737 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,480 structured differently to US athletes. 738 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,120 There's another then whole bucket of Diamond Leagues thick 739 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,800 and fast from 21st August is Lausanne and then you've got 740 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:54,480 Celestia in Poland on 23rd and Zurich on the 27th. 741 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,800 And then the Diamond League final is on the 4th and 5th of 742 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:00,600 September. So that's another sort of 4 743 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,920 Diamond League meets to close out that Diamond League season 744 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:08,000 in in then Budapest. And then there is Budapest World 745 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:13,640 Ultimate Championships from 11th to 13th September. 746 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:20,040 So I think what that also means is we are going to see a lot of 747 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:24,960 Americans on the Diamond League trying to get points to qualify 748 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,080 for world ultimates because the Diamond League, I think we 749 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,800 talked a little bit about this earlier on when we were talking 750 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,320 about world rankings. The Diamond League is where you 751 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,600 get the best ranking points. So if you put down a performance 752 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,520 at a Diamond League, you'll get more ranking points to help 753 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,480 boost your ranking to then help you qualify for World Ultimate 754 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,520 Championships. You will also, you know, 755 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,040 obviously in a lot of lot of events, you'll also then have 756 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:52,360 been better quicker races against stronger competition 757 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:56,120 with better conditions, hopefully to then actually have 758 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,280 the marks that, that will also contribute to your world 759 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,320 ranking. So that's what you need. 760 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,600 And, and as we've kind of said, like you need 5 marks right in 761 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:09,360 the qualifying window for most of the events up to up to 762 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,920 including the 1500 to kind of make your, your world ranking. 763 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,360 And I think in all the field events as well, it's only the 5K 764 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,720 that goes down to three events. So three sort of marks. 765 00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:24,840 So you need to kind of be thinking about strategically, 766 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,520 have you got enough marks that are high enough ranked and you 767 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,360 might need to do more meats to kind of throw in there to if 768 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,080 you've got like 1 not so great mark that you need to get rid of 769 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,040 from your from your ranking to boost you up. 770 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,840 So that's I think what we'll be seeing a lot of the Americans do 771 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,520 if they are interested in competing at the ultimate 772 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,840 champs. And then you've got the poor old 773 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:50,560 steeplechasers and the shop putters who are all slapping out 774 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:57,200 to China because there's two steeplechase, there's there's 775 00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:58,640 two women steeplechasers in China. 776 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,800 So pretty much there's 5 or 6 American steeplechasers are 777 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,800 going out to China. For example, there's six 778 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,840 Americans in the shop put at the Rome Diamond League, including 779 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,600 Ryan Krauser and Joe Kovacs. So you can see that kind of is 780 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,200 influencing what you might see those guys do because they you 781 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,680 know, that's where they can get paid and and have a good 782 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:21,680 competition. So. 783 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,560 We're all rankings crunching this year to see who gets to go 784 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:31,000 to the World Ultimate Championships, and the website's 785 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,560 up. I'm looking at it right now. 786 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,520 The road to the Ultimate Tracker, I think by World 787 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,320 Athletics is up. And just out of curiosity as we 788 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:47,720 start to dive into the Kekiao Shanghai Diamond Lake preview, 789 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,760 'cause it starts off with a women's 5K that is not a Diamond 790 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,240 League event, includes Faith Kippy Aegon. 791 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,960 But you know what? What's that that hypothetical 792 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,760 that always gets thrown around. It's like, would you fight 100, 793 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:11,480 you know, duck sized horses or 100 horse sized ducks? 794 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,520 I, I, it's something like that. So it's like Faith Kippy Aegon 795 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:19,400 versus 12 Ethiopians in this one is what she's got her hands full 796 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,760 with. And then so that made me wonder, 797 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:27,480 it's like, OK, this is going to be like one of the first meats 798 00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,560 that is going to start to shake up people's world ranking 799 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:36,080 position for World Ultimate. How many Ethiopians are already 800 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,960 'cause that? That's kind of maybe the thought 801 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:44,040 around the 5K at World Ultimate is that it's going to be Faith, 802 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:49,800 Kippy, Aegon, plus potentially something like this, Nadia 803 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,520 Bataclidi. And then, you know, another 10 804 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:57,640 Ethiopians. Right now there are 1232 805 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,360 Ethiopians and two Kenyans qualified. 806 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,240 You also have Beatrice Chibet, but she's out for the season. 807 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,680 Shelby Houlihan, only American in the world rankings quota. 808 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,160 It's super early right now, but this thing will move around a 809 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,120 bunch. So as we look at just sort of 810 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:25,120 what we've got on tap in China, Faith is up against, like Medina 811 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,800 Isa, who else? Caroline Nyaga is probably the 812 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,640 only other like of the, the sort of the very, the strongest in 813 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,520 terms of, you know, Kenyans, Kenyans, Margaret, Ecuador is, 814 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,360 is pretty good as well. So there's a couple of Kenyans 815 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,600 who are, who are in it as well, who are, who are pretty strong. 816 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:46,760 And then you've got, you know, the next quickest athletes are 817 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,720 and Iachu is probably the fastest of the of The Ethiopians 818 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:54,960 1431 yeah, I think she's the no sorry, Medina Acer is the 819 00:49:54,960 --> 00:50:02,520 quickest Ethiopian 1416, Chelsea deed of 1427 and and now this 820 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,520 Mabrati 1422. So, you know, there's there's 821 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,000 there's a few Ethiopians who could be pretty quick. 822 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,160 But as I say that hard to know how that'll pan out. 823 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,560 But yeah, then there's, there's a few Aussies and a couple of 824 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,360 Brits as well in, in there as well. 825 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:23,120 Mr. Courtney Bryant making a return after a year out with 826 00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,240 injury last year. So. 827 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:29,880 I could just see a solid race where it's Faith and Medina isa 828 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,040 together up until like 1K and then Faith starts to squeeze the 829 00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,640 race. I don't like Faith opened up 830 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:43,680 2025 also in China but it was a was a 1K. 831 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,440 It was 1K world record. Yeah. 832 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,000 I do wonder is it a world record attempt or not like it it does 833 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,800 yeah, this is this is the thing like it's it's one of these 834 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,440 things. Whereas yes, you know, there's 835 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,480 only a couple of reasons you do it like 1 is to get paid. 836 00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,680 But it does seem a bit bizarre to go out to to China just to 837 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,200 get paid for a 5K like it it's. I believe the global sports 838 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,880 communication folks are the people who assemble this meet. 839 00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:12,800 And so I think one, you're paying your own athlete to show 840 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,760 up to the meet, but then also it's, you know, you never know. 841 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:22,600 I think with some of the stuff where it's just a good 842 00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,520 opportunity, like I'm sure there's much more marketing 843 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,320 stuff that comes out of this. Like now that faith is in China, 844 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,320 you unlock faith in in China for a couple days to do other 845 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:37,400 sponsorship things and things that probably, you know, are 846 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,640 beneficial to her bank account and also her brand. 847 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,160 That just getting a race on the board is kind of how I see this 848 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,120 one. I don't if it was a world record 849 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,360 it sounds I think we would have heard I think a little bit more 850 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,400 about it in the lead up. It's very early I think. 851 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:58,360 And yeah, I think this one's just sort of great. 852 00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:02,400 We'll be cool to see Faith win this thing in like 1410 or 853 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:07,080 something like that, and that's a good sign of things to come. 854 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,440 This is her first time in like 5 case since she broke the world 855 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:15,960 record in 2023 I believe. So she has not. 856 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,360 She's been mostly 1500 since then. 857 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:23,400 So that's the women's 5K. Next event on the track Women's 858 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,640 400. You do have Aliyah Butler who 859 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:33,600 has already run 50.1 this year. The The star of who runs crazy 860 00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:37,720 fast early has always been Sal Waid Nasser, who's opening up 861 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,240 here at this meet. She ran some random meat the 862 00:52:42,240 --> 00:52:43,520 other day. Let me see if I could pull up 863 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:44,440 that. Was there? 864 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,000 I think there was a gulf like, yeah, local meat. 865 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,800 I think 'cause she. She's based out in like Florida 866 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,560 or something like that. Oh yeah, she did. 867 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,680 Oh yeah, she did also write something random in Florida. 868 00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,960 Yeah. It was the OK. 869 00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:02,560 So she opened up in 50.9 at the Gold Coast USATF Florida 870 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,360 Association Youth Championships. OK, interesting. 871 00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,640 Probably 0 appearance money for that. 872 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,400 And actually I'm looking at it. She tripled at that meet. 873 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:20,320 She ran 11.7 in the 123, three in the 250.9 in the 400. 874 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,960 I don't know what the order was, I don't know what the rest was, 875 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:27,720 but seemed like it was just like a public practice of sorts for 876 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,040 her. So watch for her, watch for 877 00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:35,160 Nikisha Price and Aaliyah Butler. 878 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:41,000 Sowa's the favorite, just given the fact that Marlita Paulino is 879 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,000 not here. Cindy McLaughlin Liveroni is out 880 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:47,160 for the season, so if there's someone who likes to run fast 881 00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,160 early, it's Sowa. Other than that, not too much 882 00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,720 else from that one, right? No, no. 883 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,520 Men's 110 hurdles, you're missing. 884 00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:02,280 Oh, actually you do have Cordell Tinch, you've got Jamal Britt, 885 00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:08,560 you've got Rashid Muratake and Enrique Lupus Lopez. 886 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:14,000 He's, this is a solid field, Cordell getting back to the 887 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,680 hurdles after experimenting during the indoor season with 888 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,560 high jump, long jump, all that kind of stuff. 889 00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,640 And we'll see what he opens up with. 890 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,880 He it is where he is. This the meet where he ran his 891 00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:32,920 PB last year, his 1287 it. Might well be. 892 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,240 Yeah. It was out in China, wasn't it? 893 00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:35,440 So it was one of the two. Yeah. 894 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,000 His PB last year, it was in. It was in. 895 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,720 Yeah, it was. It was this one Xiaoxin Kekiao 896 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:44,560 last year, 3rd of May. So. 897 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,720 All right, so good, good juju on this track. 898 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:48,360 Yeah. I don't know if it is the same 899 00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,840 track actually though, because they I think it's all right, 900 00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,800 like they are, they're basically because it's the Shanghai, like 901 00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,800 they're between the two cities and like they are doing, it 902 00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,040 might well be the same track. But I, I haven't double checked 903 00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,720 whether it is the same one because this is, I think they, 904 00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:06,640 they have a couple of tracks in that area near Shanghai and 905 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:08,920 they're just rotating between them, I think. 906 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,240 All right, you brought up the women's steeple. 907 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:19,280 This is actually probably the closest thing we've got to like 908 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:25,800 a world championship semi final with the one the diversity 909 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,720 across all the different countries represented and then 910 00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:32,240 two, the top talent is also here. 911 00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:37,640 So you do have Faith Chirotich, you've got Nora Giroudo, you've 912 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:42,680 got Peru Chimutai. That's your your big three in 913 00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:46,680 this one. But then all like a good portion 914 00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,680 of the top Americans decided to go. 915 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:53,360 So you've got Lexi Holiday, Olivia Marquezic, Kaylee 916 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:58,320 Mitchell, Courtney Waymond, Angelina Ellis. 917 00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:03,400 So who's that? That is in terms of the 918 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,920 percentage of the US Championship. 919 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:13,320 So you got 1/2, 3/3 of the top 4/4 of the top 6 from last 920 00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,080 year's US Championship final competing out in China. 921 00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,640 Good, good opener. I would say for this. 922 00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,160 Usually you get a meet at like a turn out like this at one of 923 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:29,920 these sound meets, but I'm sure it's a Diamond League 924 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,120 discipline. You got points on the line, 925 00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,000 although there's there's no women's steeple at the. 926 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,880 No, not the world ultimate. So I think I think that's the 927 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,200 point, right. So for for the steeplers, there 928 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,440 is there is no steeple men's or women's at the world ultimate. 929 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,920 So for the steeplers, like it is go and run the Diamond Leagues 930 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,240 and because there's only I think 5 steeples across the Diamond 931 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,040 League program like and there are two in China, right, for the 932 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,280 women's steeples. So you kind of, if you're a 933 00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:58,040 women's steepler, you kind of have to try and get into those 934 00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,560 races and, and and and make the effort because there isn't 935 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,360 really much else. If you're, especially if you're 936 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,960 AUS steepler, there isn't really much else you'd focus on this 937 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,000 year. So yeah, I think that's why we 938 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,680 are seeing so many of them out. Here of the Americans missing 939 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:17,240 from this one, it's just Angelina Napoleon, who still 940 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:22,400 running in the NCAA, Chrissy Geer, who's out for the season. 941 00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,440 I think she made an Instagram post about that. 942 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:31,360 Val Konstein, who is 7th last year, Gabby Jennings. 943 00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,200 Those are, you know, I think the only notable names missing. 944 00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,200 Emma Cobend is obviously returning to the track in for a 945 00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,760 first steeple in like 2 years. She's steepling, yeah, just 946 00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:46,200 steepling. Yeah, Yeah, I think she is 947 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,360 actually steepling. So that's that's good to see. 948 00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,000 But obviously, yeah, she's doing that in the US and not not in 949 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,920 China. You have to wonder, I guess, 950 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:57,640 like, OK, so Emma's committed to coming back to the steeple, but 951 00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:01,240 I guess is Courtney Weyman now done with the steeple and only 952 00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,200 going to focus on flat races because she ran really well on 953 00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:10,960 the 5K at the US Rd. Championships. 954 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:17,120 But I just like on the track there just seems to be a log jam 955 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:21,680 of trying to make any team in the 5K10K. 956 00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,200 So you do you. Just continue moving up if 957 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:30,200 you're Courtney Ferricks. Yeah, Courtney Frericks, yes, 958 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,280 Yeah. So yeah, I thought you said 959 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,080 Courtney Way but at the start, so I was confused but. 960 00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:35,000 Oh, my bad. Yeah. 961 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:35,960 Yeah, no, that's what I said. Yeah. 962 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,600 Courtney Frericks ran really well at the. 963 00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:39,360 Yeah, no, she she very much did, didn't she? 964 00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,360 Yeah, she she well, yeah, it'll be interesting to see if she 965 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,320 does decide to come back to the sea pool because if she's got 966 00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,360 back the 5K strength then then that's obviously a good sign 967 00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:52,280 also for the steeples. So it may be that, but maybe 968 00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:54,360 she's also decided post injury that she doesn't want to. 969 00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,880 So I'll be interested to see what she what she decided. 970 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:02,480 All right, let's move on over to the men's 800. 971 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:09,840 And we're missing Emmanuel. We're missing the podium, 972 00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:12,040 Onioni. We're missing the entire podium 973 00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:16,920 from. No Marco a rope, no Jamal 974 00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:25,400 Sajadi, and the best of this field is looking like it's Peter 975 00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:33,480 Bull, Ketu Bogila Hangura. He put on a bit of a tear 976 00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:37,760 earlier in the season last year that kind of petered out later 977 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,920 on. And so he got me so excited 978 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:46,000 cause of just the potential that he showed over 8 and 15. 979 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,520 But then once everyone else gets going, you just start to, you do 980 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:56,120 start to kind of see like who's who's for real come championship 981 00:59:56,120 --> 01:00:00,560 season, who's not. So from the looks of this, guys 982 01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,800 are taking taking their time to open up in the 800. 983 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:10,320 Wenyoni coming off of that victory in the 1500 over Timothy 984 01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:16,720 Cheriot at the Kipkano Classic in Nairobi was very impressive. 985 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:21,200 But we'll see him, I'm sure. Just tear up the Diamond League 986 01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:26,000 in the in the 800 really strong 800 that is formed is the one 987 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:31,160 that's going to be at the track fest out in LA where that one, I 988 01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:37,320 think I saw Donovan Brazier, Josh Kerr, Bryce Hoppel, all of 989 01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,080 those guys are running that one. Same mate, Cooper Luckenhouse is 990 01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,680 moving, is moving up to the 1500. 991 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,640 So I guess there, there there's I guess some options where it 992 01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,160 goes to show some athletes are choosing to stay domestic 993 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:55,520 stateside versus, you know, knockout some of these earlier 994 01:00:55,520 --> 01:01:00,000 meets out in Asia and Europe. Though Josh Hoey and and on the 995 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,760 Brazier are heading then heading over to Europe for the Rome 996 01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:04,520 family. So they've been asked for that, 997 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:11,520 for that, in that field. This episode of the City of 998 01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,280 Smack podcast is presented by X Endurance. 999 01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,080 If you're training hard, you already know those feelings. 1000 01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,080 Heavy legs. 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That person that there is really 1020 01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:24,960 like no schedule that is easy to like out there, that's easy to 1021 01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:30,080 navigate of like, hey, I want to look up where Donovan Brazier 1022 01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:34,360 has been announced for. And this is where I guess like 1023 01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,880 maybe we developed the Sidious app where you're able to click 1024 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,840 on a name and see like, all right, these are the meats that 1025 01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:46,800 a person has coming up because it I mean, again, it is a lot to 1026 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:51,320 try and navigate these meats on the Diamond League circuit. 1027 01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,240 The fields vary from meet to meet. 1028 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:57,200 So I appreciate the listeners who are able to keep up and 1029 01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:02,400 listen closely to be like, all right, so it sounds like I got 1030 01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:05,200 to watch track fest for Josh Kerr. 1031 01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,720 OK. I also got to watch Roam for 1032 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,800 Brazier and Hoey, but not Hopple. 1033 01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,120 Hopple's going to be somewhere else or whatever it is. 1034 01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:18,480 It's like that's one thing we still haven't figured out. 1035 01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,320 So there's there's actually, and I want to give a shout out to 1036 01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,840 these guys. There's a website called track 1037 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,240 athletes dot IE and track athletes dot AU. 1038 01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:29,040 So they launched an island and now they're doing it in 1039 01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:32,640 Australia as well, where basically they they then 1040 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,680 announce all the Irish athletes and all the Aussie athletes that 1041 01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:38,360 are racing each week, what meet they're racing at what distance 1042 01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:40,840 they're racing. And they do a really great job 1043 01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:44,560 and they provide links to results, start lists, live 1044 01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,920 streams for each of those meets as well. 1045 01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,080 And they do a really great job. And they also like track like 1046 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,280 people who've qualified for things or in the rankings 1047 01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,880 qualifiers for various meets as well. 1048 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:58,160 So they do a really great job of doing that for their respective 1049 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:02,120 country's athletes. And the other thing tool that is 1050 01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,320 useful because the World Athletics calendar on their 1051 01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:09,760 website is just an absolute mess to navigate is there's Colin 1052 01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,360 Jackson's app Track and Field Life, where you can go, if you 1053 01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:16,200 download that app, then at least each day you can click on each 1054 01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:19,120 day and see which meets are happening on that day, which 1055 01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,280 means that at least you can look at the next week or so and just 1056 01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:23,520 like click on each day and see like if there's any interesting 1057 01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,880 meets coming up. And although it isn't fully 1058 01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,080 developed out yet, they've got kind of section for link out to 1059 01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,960 the meats as well. And I don't think that that 1060 01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,240 works fully yet, but at least it tells you which meets are going 1061 01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:37,600 on which is, which is at least some progress to make it easier 1062 01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:39,640 to kind of keep track of these things because yeah, it is. 1063 01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,160 It is an absolute nightmare otherwise. 1064 01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,160 Otherwise, I guess like the way we've just been trained is just 1065 01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:51,520 pray that an athlete has either taken it upon themselves to open 1066 01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:56,720 up a laptop and make their own graphic or hire someone with 1067 01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:00,120 graphic design skills to make a post that they can just pin on 1068 01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:04,560 their profile and announce sort of that's where they're racing. 1069 01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:08,640 I just opened up like that track athletes dot IE app and it's 1070 01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,080 great. And I'm I'm looking at Sophie 1071 01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:15,080 O'sullivan's profile and it's got all her personal best links 1072 01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:20,120 out to her profiles. And then it says that upcoming 1073 01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:24,360 events, Seiko Grand Prix May 17th in Japan. 1074 01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:30,600 So this is cool, but again, like just takes a lot of bandwidth if 1075 01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,000 you're trying to do this for all the American athletes. 1076 01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:38,120 So we haven't quite solved that just yet. 1077 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:42,640 But if you keep up with us on the pod, we will try and keep 1078 01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:46,240 you up to date on who's at least competing over the next couple 1079 01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:50,200 days. All right, Next up, women's 200 1080 01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:54,520 strong field, one of the best of the entire weekend. 1081 01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,920 And this one you've and and I think overall the the 1082 01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:03,960 overarching theme of around the women's 200 is that the best of 1083 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,560 the best are going to be going up head to head multiple times 1084 01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,120 throughout the year. It looks like, you know, I've 1085 01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:15,680 lost track of OK, some combination of Amy Hunt, Dean 1086 01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:19,640 Asher Smith, Melissa Jefferson Wood and Julian Alfred Shakira 1087 01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:22,280 Richardson have been announced for this time in the this time 1088 01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,440 in the league. But they're all in a Navy battle 1089 01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:30,920 seems to be in all of those fields that just kind of is 1090 01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,040 happening already. So the women's 200 this year 1091 01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,000 will be very exciting. I guess I the one name I I 1092 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,280 haven't caught in a lot of them is Gabby Thomas. 1093 01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:43,040 So we'll see what meets she chooses to do. 1094 01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:48,040 But for the field in Shanghai, you got a Navy battle, you got 1095 01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:53,560 Amy Hunt, Sharika Jackson, Tori Lewis, Shawnee Miller, Weibo The 1096 01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:57,400 comeback continues. Shikari Richardson, Jenna 1097 01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,200 Prandini. Very interesting mix of athletes 1098 01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:06,840 you've got, I guess you got Amy Hunt, who obviously has the 1099 01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:09,760 World Medal, and you could probably maybe make the case for 1100 01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,760 it as the favorite. I want to see what Shikari is 1101 01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,480 going to open up with, because in the past, it's either really 1102 01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,320 good and you start to get excited for the rest of the 1103 01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:22,960 season, or pretty bad and you start to wonder, all right, how 1104 01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,000 long is this going to take to get in order? 1105 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,680 But we'll get our answer in just just a couple days. 1106 01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,000 And then when you've got that mix of Shawnee Miller, Weibo, 1107 01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,640 Janet Prandini, even Sharika Jackson, I think I'm throwing 1108 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:37,840 them into a bucket of like, these are athletes who have not 1109 01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:39,680 been at their best in their last couple of years. 1110 01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:44,960 But we'll get a great baseline of how they're going to stack up 1111 01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:49,920 against Shikari and Amy Hunt, who have been good over the last 1112 01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,400 couple of years. Yeah. 1113 01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,040 And and just from past experience of these early 1114 01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:57,280 season, like 2 hundreds over in China, like obviously Tory Lewis 1115 01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,760 Beach, you carry and a bunch of other people a couple of years 1116 01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,720 ago. And you know, that is one of 1117 01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:06,120 those meets where it will probably be one in 22 five. 1118 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,720 And if it's one in 22 five, pretty much anyone on the start 1119 01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:14,320 list can can win that race, depending on on how they're on 1120 01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,760 the day. I don't think anyone's if 1121 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:20,760 someone comes out and runs 21 seconds at this meet or 22 at 1122 01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,560 this meet, I will be very, very impressed because they'll 1123 01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,200 they'll be kind of probably ahead of where they probably 1124 01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:30,439 need to be for the season. But yeah, I think it because 1125 01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,800 like Shawnie Miller Webber's already run 2244 this season. 1126 01:08:35,359 --> 01:08:39,560 Mackenzie Long's run 22 four and and Jenna Crandini's run 22 1127 01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,000 three. So, you know, and we know Navier 1128 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,160 Battle shows up to a Diamond League and, and she's she's 1129 01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:47,040 she's she's always in contention for the win. 1130 01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:51,479 So I think like, yeah, you, you can't write anyone off. 1131 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:55,200 And I think, yeah, which makes the race interesting, but also I 1132 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,160 don't think you should put too much stock in it. 1133 01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,000 Like, because, yes, it's also equally possible that Tori Lewis 1134 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:01,319 comes along and wins it again, right. 1135 01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:04,520 That's that's kind of the the vibe of of some of these early 1136 01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:10,359 season Sprint races. For the best race of the the 1137 01:09:10,359 --> 01:09:13,560 meet so fascinating they just put it in like right in the the 1138 01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:17,800 middle of the schedule. But alas, we don't make the 1139 01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,120 schedule either. Well, to be fair, the the 1140 01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,560 women's 100 hurdles is is probably still the best race to 1141 01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:24,120 meet and that will actually probably be fast. 1142 01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,200 So by comparison to the 200, so they probably made the right 1143 01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,120 choice, but we'll come on to that in a minute. 1144 01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:33,560 I guess the one thing I have with the women's 100 hurdles is 1145 01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:37,920 that this field you see at every meet. 1146 01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,600 Yeah, but it's still like the best field and it produces 1147 01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,720 really good races every time. Whilst some of those 200 Diamond 1148 01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:48,680 E2 hundreds, like even if they have a lot of good people in 1149 01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:52,040 them, they're often not the best races unfortunately. 1150 01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:54,440 So that is just especially early season. 1151 01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:01,000 Yeah, I just, I can't remember the last meet I've been to where 1152 01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,960 it ends with a 110 or 100 hurdles. 1153 01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,960 But yeah, I just looked at the field. 1154 01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:12,560 So I guess we'll jump ahead. This one's got Toby, Amazon, 1155 01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:19,960 Masai, Russell, Akira Nugent. I got Akira versus Masai for the 1156 01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:25,120 first time since they were both going at it, I think a little 1157 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:31,520 bit in the offseason on TikTok. This is how deep in the weeds 1158 01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,240 you got to be, I guess in, in, in track sometimes to 1159 01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:36,160 understand. I think like Messiah came out 1160 01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:38,520 with some video that says like she's not friends with any of 1161 01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:43,600 her competitors except for the ones that I think like her in 1162 01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:47,920 her training group and or that in order to be really good, like 1163 01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:50,840 you can't like anyone in your events, you can't be friends. 1164 01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:55,960 And I'm not even sure if she caught heat for it, but it 1165 01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,280 started to kind of get around like who's this shot at? 1166 01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:03,280 And then Akira kind of voiced and sounded off on it, I think, 1167 01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:08,200 and even did some podcast with someone in Jamaica where she 1168 01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:12,200 talked about just sort of a little bit more to the rivalry 1169 01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:19,240 with her and and, and Masai. And so obviously they were 1170 01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:23,600 rivals in college. Masai got the better day at the 1171 01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:29,320 Paris Olympics. Akira's very, very, very good, I 1172 01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,040 guess, just hasn't put it together in the gold medal 1173 01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:37,040 championship moment quite yet. But I like this. 1174 01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:41,720 I like that drama. Yeah, and yeah, you've got wild 1175 01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:45,160 indoor champion Davin Charlton, world outdoor champion Ditaji 1176 01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,840 Kambunji, Olympic champion Messiah Russell, Karen Nugent, 1177 01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:52,200 Danielle Williams, who's the world champion from 2023. 1178 01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:56,320 So yeah, it's it's it's a world record holder in Toby Amazon. 1179 01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,760 So it's an absolutely stat race as these these things always 1180 01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:04,520 are. And yeah, yeah, it's always fun 1181 01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,400 to to watch them watch them go at it and. 1182 01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:08,680 One person you won't see this season? 1183 01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:12,960 Jasmine Camacho Quinn, the multiple time Olympic medallist, 1184 01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:16,760 because she announced that she is expecting her first child. 1185 01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:21,000 So congratulations to her. And that is another lane that it 1186 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:26,960 opens up in the Diamond League for these 100 hurdle races, 1187 01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:30,960 which obviously are very easy to fill with just how much talent 1188 01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:35,120 there is globally. So yeah, so that's the women's 1189 01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:36,880 100 hurdles which close out the meet. 1190 01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:43,160 Going back to the schedule and order, men's 3K should be a fun 1191 01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:47,400 one. You do have an assortment of 1192 01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:52,480 Kenyans and Ethiopians, including getting at Wale Adisi, 1193 01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:55,040 Yehune, Jacob Crop, Edwin Kirgat. 1194 01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:59,720 But I'm so excited to see what does Andreas Omgrin have up his 1195 01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:04,440 sleeve on the track after being on an absolute tear on the 1196 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:06,840 roads. You also got Timothy Chariot and 1197 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,480 Reynold Chariot stepping up to the 3K. 1198 01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:14,520 So this is this is a fun race. Yeah, no, absolutely. 1199 01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:18,680 It's fun race. Yeah, Reynold temperature will 1200 01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,280 be will be definitely interesting to watch. 1201 01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:26,240 I think Almgren, like yeah, 3K feels like a bit short for him 1202 01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,720 these days, so it will be interesting, but he's has 1203 01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:32,520 announced like a full track season of three KS and five KS. 1204 01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,400 He put up his schedule on Instagram so. 1205 01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:38,120 He did put up his schedule. Flap it up for Andreas Almgren, 1206 01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:39,440 yeah. Yeah, exactly. 1207 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:44,520 So yeah, there's yeah. And look, you can see like most 1208 01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:48,320 of this field have PBS in the in the seven, seven 30s, low seven 1209 01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,760 30s. In fact, the fastest guys are 1210 01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:55,800 Jacob Crop and Edwin Kirgat with 728 8 PBS, so it's all pretty 1211 01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:58,560 even. So we could be in for a for a 1212 01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:03,600 fun race. Next up, men's 100 meters. 1213 01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:07,320 Was this one of those that like had a crate or is it the next 1214 01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:12,440 China one that had like a crazy announcement at first of like 1215 01:14:12,440 --> 01:14:15,320 here's who's entered and then slowly but surely, like people 1216 01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,160 started dropping off. Was it this one or the next one? 1217 01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:20,520 I I don't know. 'Cause I think like a like a 1218 01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:23,840 month ago, it was like, Oh my God, this field is absolutely 1219 01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,080 stacked. I highly doubt that this field 1220 01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:31,840 stays together come race day. And so we do have three 1221 01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,520 Americans in this one, Kenny Benaric, Trayvon Burmell, 1222 01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:37,600 Christian Coleman, God bless. Kenny Benaric. 1223 01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:41,480 Did you see his quote yesterday? Well, Grand Slam. 1224 01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:46,360 Yeah. He he's hoping for Grand Slam to 1225 01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,360 come back. One of the few left on the 1226 01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,840 payroll. Trayvon Burmell opening up, 1227 01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:53,760 Christian Coleman opening up as well. 1228 01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:59,480 Coleman I think had a decent Australia little stint a couple 1229 01:14:59,480 --> 01:15:03,000 weeks ago. Lachlan Kennedy is intriguing 1230 01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:06,520 after his 996 earlier in the year. 1231 01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:11,920 The the beginning of just sort of, you know, the debate, can he 1232 01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:15,320 do it outside of Australia? Toboga will be there to push 1233 01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:17,680 him. Some Bini will be there as well. 1234 01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:21,760 Toboga with his season's best of 10.2 so far. 1235 01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:28,480 Don't read into that. But yeah, given that Toboga and 1236 01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:33,080 some Bini show that they are they were informed at the World 1237 01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:39,360 Relays, I think they should be. But I guess like this is 1238 01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:42,240 typically the time of year, right, that Akane Sombina ends 1239 01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:45,720 up going like 4 and O to start the season at these early season 1240 01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:49,080 meets and then ends up finishing 4th or 5th at the World 1241 01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,520 Championships. That feels like the trend 1242 01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:53,920 historically well. Yeah, and it is hard, right? 1243 01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:57,440 Because if you're a South African sprinter, your track 1244 01:15:57,440 --> 01:16:00,000 season is early season, you know, you're running outdoor. 1245 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,200 If you want to run at home, you you do run a run an outdoor 1246 01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:06,320 season in South Africa last year he ran an indoor season, 1247 01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:10,000 obviously, and, and instead and, and, and got a bronze medal at 1248 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,440 World indoors because that was his first ever global medal. 1249 01:16:12,440 --> 01:16:16,400 But yeah, there is a question as to whether he maybe needs to. 1250 01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:18,840 And it feels like he hasn't taken a break, right, because he 1251 01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:22,320 was at World Relays. He's so he just hasn't. 1252 01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:25,200 And, and I do wonder whether this would be the time in the 1253 01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:28,880 season to take a break. So, yeah, it does seem 1254 01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,960 especially if you've got comedy Commonwealth Games in July and 1255 01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,840 then you've got the end of July and then you've got world 1256 01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,760 ultimates at the end of in September. 1257 01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:40,440 So it does feel like this would be the window, you know, the 1258 01:16:40,440 --> 01:16:43,160 month, next month or so would be the window to take a break but 1259 01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,720 and go back training. But but here we are and these 1260 01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,040 guys are all running it back the following week in Shamen. 1261 01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:52,480 And I think the person in addition that was announced was 1262 01:16:52,480 --> 01:16:54,560 Ka Shane Thompson. So I don't know if he's the one 1263 01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:58,080 who's yeah, if he's just doing that as a one off or whether 1264 01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,640 whether he's he's done that one, but but that was the original 1265 01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:02,600 announcement for the following week. 1266 01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:06,240 I think I saw even one race announced that it was like his, 1267 01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:10,160 Shane Noah and Jordan Anthony were all slated. 1268 01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:12,640 For I don't know, I don't know about that, but they're 1269 01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:17,360 certainly in Rome. You've got Noah versus Jordan, 1270 01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:24,000 Anthony versus Tabogo and Jacobs and Kenny. 1271 01:17:24,440 --> 01:17:25,920 But all right, so. That's a good one. 1272 01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,680 So that's quite a good one coming up in Rome kind of a 1273 01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:33,440 couple of weeks after that. All right, that was the 100. 1274 01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:41,360 Let's move on over to the 1500 women, which I think it's 1275 01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:42,240 actually. Really good race. 1276 01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:43,680 Really good race, very good race. 1277 01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:52,400 I think this one you got Sica de Guma, Dorcas Ewoi, Berka Hilam, 1278 01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:56,240 Claudia Hollingsworth, who I think she was very impressive 1279 01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,640 and we've, you know, been talking about how she's going to 1280 01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:03,040 be a breakout star this year. Jess Hall of the Americans 1281 01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,160 making the trip over. You got Emily Mackay, Gracie 1282 01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:11,520 Morris, Terren Parks. So I I wonder if people are 1283 01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:15,680 ready to go under 4 this early in the season, right? 1284 01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:19,320 Like it's a solid enough field. But if yeah, I mean, but if it's 1285 01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:22,320 a four O 2 race, still kind of intriguing. 1286 01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:26,560 You know, how does Dorcas end up trying to win that one? 1287 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,960 I think we also get the because we didn't really get the match 1288 01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,080 up with the fall at the Australian championships. 1289 01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,000 Like the five top Aussies are all in this race and we didn't 1290 01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,840 get that match up in in Australia. 1291 01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,680 So it'll be intriguing to see how that plays out as well, 1292 01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:43,200 because I think that also factors into their very 1293 01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:47,080 competitive Commonwealth Games selection, very political. 1294 01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:50,960 Selection, yeah. So yeah, that will be 1295 01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:52,840 interesting to see how that all pans out. 1296 01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:57,360 Can Claudia Hollingsworth do it in in a dimely style race and be 1297 01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,120 and maybe maybe close to or be just, I mean, this is a thing, 1298 01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:03,560 right? If they go out at 354 or 352 1299 01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,040 pace or something. Jess up in the front. 1300 01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:08,920 Then, then, then Jess is going to going to kind of be miles 1301 01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:12,680 away from everybody along with I assume back at Highland will be 1302 01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,720 the one leading that charge and then then fall off a bit later 1303 01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:19,160 in the race. But yeah, it will be, and it 1304 01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:22,000 will be interesting to see what Siggy to do when it does as 1305 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,440 well. Burka Highland with the 353 PB 1306 01:19:25,440 --> 01:19:31,800 is like the most like underrated 353 of any field because she 1307 01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:36,800 gets so overshadowed by the likes of Gudas the guy and you 1308 01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:38,480 know, faith and and all these but. 1309 01:19:38,480 --> 01:19:42,160 Remember, she she the the issue for back in Highland is she she 1310 01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:45,160 doesn't have she's the agent of chaos with tactics, right? 1311 01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:48,240 She turned up to world indoors and she went off like like about 1312 01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:51,640 out of hell and they ignored it and and all came past her right 1313 01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,680 so. She's listening, she's a good 1314 01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:57,520 listener, she listens to the Ethiopian Athletics Federation 1315 01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,360 that tells her to do those things, so she stays in their 1316 01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:03,760 good graces for further team selection in the future. 1317 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:08,040 The moment you actually decide to race smart and go against 1318 01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:10,280 their orders, you're going to risk not being selected for the 1319 01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:11,720 next. Team who knows? 1320 01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,680 So you're in a no win situation. Yeah, well, sadly with no sign 1321 01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:18,800 of Goudaf Sagai just yet. Who? 1322 01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:20,680 We haven't seen her. We didn't see her indoors when 1323 01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:22,320 we normally do. So I don't know if she is 1324 01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:24,760 injured or or or on a bit of a hiatus but. 1325 01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:27,320 That's a question for her coach, Eric Jenkins. 1326 01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:29,880 Absolutely. Absolutely. 1327 01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:31,960 But I think he needs to take up coaching Berkeley Highland as 1328 01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:35,080 well now. Stable's going to get way too 1329 01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:39,440 big soon, all right. Final event to talk about men's 1330 01:20:39,440 --> 01:20:42,280 300 hurdles. I mean, this is still such a 1331 01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:46,600 funky event to me, but it's the first time over 300 hurdles, I 1332 01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:49,600 think that we get war home versus Dos Santos, right? 1333 01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:53,040 Yeah, because it was war home versus rye last year. 1334 01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:55,520 No, no, it was all three of them last year over. 300. 1335 01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:59,600 So it was all three of them at both Oslo and Stockholm last 1336 01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:02,000 year. So yeah. 1337 01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:05,240 But yes, it will be. I mean, yeah, we'll see. 1338 01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,640 What what, what Caston? I mean again, yeah. 1339 01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:10,880 You give this one the edge to Caston in this one, obviously 1340 01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:15,240 over Allison Dos Santos. But yeah, it'll be interesting 1341 01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:18,640 to also see what what CJ Allen, Trevor Bassett, Caleb Dean do on 1342 01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:23,160 the American front. You know what I saw I, I was 1343 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:26,360 wondering just sort of a couple days ago, because we did see 1344 01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:31,400 just sort of like the headlines about Abby Steiner suing Puma 1345 01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,800 over like spikes injuring her. And it was, it wasn't just Puma, 1346 01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:38,520 but it was also like the Mercedes Formula One team 1347 01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,640 because I guess they were involved in just sort of a lot 1348 01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:45,800 of the shoe development is I wonder what does Carson Warholm 1349 01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,160 think of that? Like that whole news because 1350 01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:52,680 he's I think been pretty pivotal to some of those Spike 1351 01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:59,560 developments and he has no problem running fast in them and 1352 01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,080 he's been very, very successful in them, so. 1353 01:22:02,760 --> 01:22:05,400 Yeah, it's a very interesting. Yeah, it's a very interesting 1354 01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,080 thing like, and we didn't get the chance to talk about it when 1355 01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:08,840 that news came out, right, with Abby Steiner. 1356 01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:13,560 And like, because if you're if obviously if by any chance Abby 1357 01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,200 Steiner wins that lawsuit, like shoe companies are going to be 1358 01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:19,840 very, very kind of careful. I guess I don't, I don't know 1359 01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:24,400 how do you because you you don't want to then get sued by your 1360 01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:28,520 sponsored athletes, right. So that is kind of the that is 1361 01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,680 very interesting move and it does feel like, you know, and it 1362 01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,440 does seem like you would only make such a move if that is the 1363 01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:39,320 end of your career. So it does feel like maybe we 1364 01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:41,880 won't see Abby Steiner back on a track anytime soon. 1365 01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:43,520 Because. That's the that's the saddest 1366 01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:47,560 part, I think to the whole entire thing is that, you know, 1367 01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:51,760 it's difficult to put the blame on just one thing when it comes 1368 01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:54,800 to an injury, but she's was such a tremendous talent. 1369 01:22:55,320 --> 01:23:00,200 I think we saw signs of it in 2022, especially her being part 1370 01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:02,880 of that 4x4 that ended up winning the gold medal. 1371 01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:09,280 She ran such amazing and memorable 4x4 legs in college. 1372 01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:15,440 I think the one, the thing that just I guess is maybe tough to 1373 01:23:15,440 --> 01:23:20,160 bring up in this whole situation is like, sure, I guess you can 1374 01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:25,160 blame the spikes a bit, but also like you're pretty run down to 1375 01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:27,480 the ground like in your last year of college. 1376 01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:30,680 Like the number of races that she did was insane. 1377 01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,800 And then like just to keep it going, I think like they were 1378 01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:38,600 like, this is part of maybe something that, you know, if 1379 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:41,760 you're Puma or whoever in court would have to present. 1380 01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:46,240 It's like, yeah, you can maybe blame the shoes for a little bit 1381 01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,120 of discomfort and stuff, but at the same time, it's like how 1382 01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:52,040 much blame do you put on Just sort of like the load that you 1383 01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:56,200 carried from your college days and injuries that may be propped 1384 01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:58,600 up from that. And then on top of that, it's 1385 01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:03,400 like, what are some of the other areas of your daily life that 1386 01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,920 also could have contributed to an injury that you can't just 1387 01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:09,640 100% put blame on the pair of spikes? 1388 01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:12,800 So that's the ultimate challenge there. 1389 01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:14,440 Exactly. Yeah, there's always going to be 1390 01:24:14,440 --> 01:24:17,680 things like, you know, I, I imagine it's, it's true of 1391 01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:20,040 everybody, right, With shoes, like some people find certain 1392 01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:24,720 shoes more comfortable than others and comfort is I'm using 1393 01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:27,240 as a bit of a proxy. But if you run miles in them, 1394 01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:30,280 you, you, you or you, you do kind of hard Sprint workouts in 1395 01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:34,240 them, like, yeah, if you've got the wrong shoes on, whether you 1396 01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:37,280 were wearing slightly the wrong size or whether they just have 1397 01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:40,920 shoes that don't suit your feet right, that that obviously 1398 01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,280 they're not going to suit everybody. 1399 01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:45,240 And I guess if you take it to extremes, then it might cause 1400 01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,440 injury. But yeah, it's hard to know. 1401 01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:50,120 Like, where's the causation, right? 1402 01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:51,840 Is it, oh, you did the wrong workout? 1403 01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:55,040 Is it, you know, you, you wore the wrong size shoes? 1404 01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:57,200 Is it you just? You didn't stretch. 1405 01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:00,840 Yeah, you didn't stretch before. You like, what is the, what is 1406 01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:04,040 the thing that made you, you know, how to suffer those 1407 01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:06,440 injuries? And it's obviously quite 1408 01:25:06,440 --> 01:25:09,480 challenging to prove causation in those situations. 1409 01:25:09,480 --> 01:25:14,080 And it'll be interesting to see how that lawsuit progresses and, 1410 01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:17,480 and what it kind of where it ends up. 1411 01:25:17,480 --> 01:25:22,600 But yeah, it obviously is one of those things where, yeah, you 1412 01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,880 you might say, well, would a shoe company put out a shoe that 1413 01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:32,080 helps people run really fast? But yeah, it also isn't great 1414 01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:34,320 for your feet. Like spikes in general are not 1415 01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:36,120 great for your feet. Like we've seen that with the 1416 01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:38,560 likes of a Yacob and stuff. Like you will see people 1417 01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:40,440 running, avoiding running in spikes. 1418 01:25:40,440 --> 01:25:42,960 People only run limited workouts in spikes because they know that 1419 01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,360 if they run everything in spikes, it's not great for your 1420 01:25:45,360 --> 01:25:45,920 feet. Right. 1421 01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:49,840 So it's like that's like, you know, otherwise why would you 1422 01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:51,960 run every single workout in spikes where you could run your 1423 01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:57,200 quickest, you know, like there is a bit of yeah, there there 1424 01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,320 was a there was a lot of stuff that goes into that. 1425 01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:04,280 And yeah, it will be interesting to to follow that lawsuit as it. 1426 01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:07,200 Goes there's a trial. I hope you get streamed 1427 01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:10,680 somewhere. We now call to the stand Mondo 1428 01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:15,240 Duplantis, Carson Moorholm to testify in defence of the 1429 01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:20,600 spikes. Yeah, yeah. 1430 01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:22,280 I thought about getting into spikes this morning. 1431 01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:28,680 I had a 6 by 600 session than I did and for a second I was like 1432 01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,320 maybe I should do the last tune spikes but I'm racing 1/2 1433 01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:36,280 marathon this weekend and I was like I can't have my calves be 1434 01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:40,960 sore before my body doesn't recover as quick as it as it 1435 01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:45,040 used to. So we shall see I guess how I 1436 01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,040 feel. But yeah, if there's anyone 1437 01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:50,600 running the Brooklyn half this weekend and is targeting 1438 01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:55,960 somewhere around one 24125, look for me in the starting corral 1439 01:26:55,960 --> 01:27:01,760 because I have no gauge of who to run with. 1440 01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:05,080 Or I mean, it's going to have to probably be me just solo. 1441 01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:07,000 But I think that's what I'm shooting for right now is just 1442 01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:09,720 kind of a little fitness test to see where I'm at. 1443 01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:15,040 Not APB race for sure. But hey, if you got me, you 1444 01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:18,200 know, actually I will have a fresh pair of super shoes for 1445 01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:21,520 it. So should be should be a good 1446 01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,880 one. But excited to then just also go 1447 01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:28,320 back and rewatch a bunch of the Diamond League races that are 1448 01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,920 taking place 'cause I don't think I'll be able to watch 1449 01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:37,560 Shanghai live because I'll be getting ready to race. 1450 01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:43,920 So yeah, I think that does it. For well, there's also yes, 1451 01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:46,320 indeed, But it's worth mentioning the Seiko Golden 1452 01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:48,920 Grand Prix, which is at the stadium where the World 1453 01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:50,200 Championships took place last year. 1454 01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:53,280 It's a oh, really? A it's an A yeah, It's at the 1455 01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:55,160 same stadium. It's in the main, main stadium. 1456 01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:58,040 It's yeah. So it's a continental tour, like 1457 01:27:58,040 --> 01:27:59,520 a meet. So gold meet. 1458 01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:05,640 So Noah Lyles racing 100 against Tate Taylor and Jake Odie Jordan 1459 01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:07,920 the high school slash former high school. 1460 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:09,720 Kids got all the way out to Japan. 1461 01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:13,480 Yep, Yep. To race Noah as well as Jerome 1462 01:28:13,480 --> 01:28:18,520 Blake, Marcellus Moore in the 100, Courtney Lindsay and Jordan 1463 01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:22,600 Anthony in the two hundreds and then the four hundreds. 1464 01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:25,880 Actually quite interesting because it's Vernon Norwood Rye, 1465 01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:31,920 Benjamin Mazala, Sam Conga, Olympic bronze medalist, and 1466 01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:37,800 Rhys Holder who obviously run, run that crazy 400 split World 1467 01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,600 Relays. So yeah, that's all. 1468 01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:43,640 One of the crazy 400 splits of World Relays. 1469 01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:50,680 It was a 43.1 or something so. Wow, if Rybe can beat Samakonga 1470 01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:53,680 this weekend, feeling even better about my. 1471 01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:57,480 Well, Samakonga's always a bit of a he's a bit of a wild card 1472 01:28:57,480 --> 01:28:59,760 in terms of still he gets. So I don't confidence from it. 1473 01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:02,120 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, yeah. 1474 01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:07,880 So there are a few good races out there to to keep an eye on. 1475 01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,800 I didn't see let me just see if there's anything interesting in 1476 01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:17,720 the women's races, but there isn't as much. 1477 01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:21,640 Well, I think there is the Evergreen ever present Nazomi 1478 01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:25,200 Tsaka running. I think she's running the the 15 1479 01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:29,280 and the 3K, at least me. I don't know how she's going to 1480 01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,280 manage that in in the place of two hours, but I guess it's 1481 01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:34,640 Dissami Tsaka. Two hours is a ton of time. 1482 01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:39,000 For plenty of rest and yeah, Sophia Sullivan is is racing in 1483 01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:44,320 that and Shelby Houlihan are racing in that 1500 as well, so. 1484 01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:48,600 Yeah. All right, that does it for 1485 01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:51,440 another edition of this week in track and field. 1486 01:29:51,440 --> 01:29:54,800 It's so nice that the Diamond League is back up and running, 1487 01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:59,320 and so we'll be back next week to recap all of the action. 1488 01:29:59,880 --> 01:30:02,680 But you can keep tabs on everything by following along 1489 01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:08,400 Sidious Mag on Instagram, Twitter, Blue Sky, YouTube, 1490 01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:11,960 everywhere. So that does it. 1491 01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:17,120 I love track and field. All right, that's a wrap on 1492 01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,400 today's episode. Thanks for listening, for the 1493 01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:22,360 time, the curiosity and for making this show part of your 1494 01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:25,480 routine or your run. 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