1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,440 Kombawa and welcome to Sidious Mag live from the World 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,880 Championships Day 9. Chris Chavez here with Eric 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:13,680 Jenkins and Mac Fleet, we've got still got some guys over at the 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,240 stadium as the men's discus competition is still taking 5 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:23,200 place because of a rain delay. It was absolutely pouring rain 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,960 out there. So it means Paul Hoff Mahoney is 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,560 out there. Preet Majithia still in the mix 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,640 zone gathering some interviews. Mitch Dyer is also doing some TV 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,640 work and while Matt Denny is throwing, he's got to stay 10 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,800 there. So smaller crew for the last 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,880 night. But overall, I mean, like we 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,320 took in all the action ready to talk and breakdown everything 13 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,040 that took place on the final night of the World 14 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,000 Championships. A reminder that our presenting 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,440 sponsor of the World Championships is A6. 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Without them, none of this would have been possible for us to 17 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,320 have as big of a crew here and to be able to bring you as much 18 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,160 coverage as we have across podcasts, newsletters, articles, 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:12,280 social content, these shows. So we are eternally grateful to 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,040 them for all of their support. On my way back here, I had to. 21 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,520 I was walking and it was since it's been pouring rain. 22 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:27,080 I was like, I wish I had my Nova Blast on because it was getting 23 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:31,280 a little bit slippery out there. And so I loved the Nova Blast's 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:37,280 grip, especially for some of those rainy runs, and so loved 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,720 it. It's it's it's still pouring 26 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,040 rain out there. So I got to be careful with this 27 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,360 with this knee. But get your hands on a pair of 28 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,200 the Nova Blast, crush those miles. 29 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,840 And yeah, let's get into it, Eric. 30 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,000 Tonight was awesome. And we're going to kick things 31 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,600 off with discussion over the men's 5K. 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,040 When we came into this race, we thought that it is the perfect 33 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,720 blend of the speed side of things where you have those 1500 34 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,759 studs, you have the strong guys coming down from the the 10K. 35 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:15,000 You make make a meet in the middle and you can get a 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,560 tactical affair that crescendos with a blistering final lap. 37 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:25,640 And so we got that as Cole Hawker is your men's 5K world 38 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:32,400 champion with just an exquisite final 300 meters where he moved 39 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,840 his way at, at at at the bell he was sitting in. 40 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:43,080 Let's see. Like 6th, like even more back. 41 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,600 I mean, he was kind of back in the pack. 42 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,360 Am I saying this right? It was. 12th That makes that 43 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:54,920 yeah, he was. 12th at the bell, then at 4700 meters 9th, 4800 44 00:02:54,920 --> 00:03:02,000 meters fifth with 100 meters to go 2nd and then closes it out to 45 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,840 win it in 1258.3. Which is really funny because 46 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,760 all throughout these championships, we saw these 47 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:17,920 solar races and we also were thinking that, oh, if it ends up 48 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:25,400 being a race in the 1310s, it's called hawkers to to win most 49 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,160 likely. And even when I did the podcast 50 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,200 with him post USA is like that was part of the reason why he 51 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,600 wanted to get after this event. He was like, I've just seen this 52 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,960 race go slow so many times that like it would it's you know, 53 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,000 they would tee it up for him to to win. 54 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,840 And today, I guess, like he kind of proved that like doesn't have 55 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,280 to be that slow. He can still he he's got the 56 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,280 best kick in the entire field and he wins it. 57 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:57,880 It just exquisite redemption. I would say after the DQ in the 58 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:04,360 1500, he had a baller quote after the race, let me see if I 59 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:09,240 could pull it up really quick. But he said not to have the 60 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,480 opportunity to race The 1500 really hurt. 61 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,760 I had to recalibrate and think how do I redeem that? 62 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,000 There was only one answer and today he provided that for the 63 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,680 fans and makes history. Third American to win the global 64 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,960 5K title. Bob Scholl in Tokyo back in 65 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:32,720 1964, Bernard Lagat in 2007 and now Cole Hawker. 66 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:38,840 He wins when it matters most. So Eric, you have kind of been 67 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,680 riding the high of like picking Cole as the favorite to this. 68 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:42,720 Like what did you see in the rounds? 69 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,080 And then ultimately in how he executed this race early on up 70 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,760 in the front, kind of they let they let him kind of lay it up 71 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,840 for for him to set it up. Yeah, First off, I mean, what an 72 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:56,200 incredible race probably. And you know, it's fresh in my 73 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,760 mind, so I think that could be a lot of why I'm saying this, but 74 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,000 it's one of the best 5 KS honestly, I've ever seen. 75 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,160 Cold cold has just he's looked great in these in the opening 76 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,760 round and he looks very comfortable at this distance. 77 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,200 I was in a slow race. Yes, his kick is just it's one 78 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,240 of the best in the world, if not the best in the world. 79 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,640 So he's going to be a factor in it. 80 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,960 But this is this is a sub 13 race and the kick was still just 81 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,120 as lethal. It was I was surprised like 82 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,480 right off the gun. I was surprised to see the 83 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,040 tactics of it. It was we I had been talking a 84 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:42,520 lot about how the Americans usually don't work together and 85 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,560 it seemed like there was some coordination on the part of 86 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,400 maybe Nico and Grant like they were Cole. 87 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,760 Cole goes out to the front, takes the lead what he's done in 88 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,760 the past and and in this event and and Bush, is it not? 89 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,520 He's not he's not really really going for it, but he's just kind 90 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,920 of stretching out the legs a bit, staying out of trouble. 91 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,640 And then Grant and Nico start making it a pretty honest race, 92 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:13,480 clicking off, what was it, 60 twos, 60 threes maybe, and and 93 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:19,480 sharing, sharing the workload, which is, I can't remember the 94 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,440 last time I've seen something like that in a world 95 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,320 championship final. Making it so, yeah, making it a 96 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,400 very honest race that came through 3K and 7:51. 97 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,440 I'm like, OK, they're they're they're really going for it. 98 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,960 And then still to see that it's a sub 13 race and it was packed 99 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,920 up like it was a sitting kick. It was like, yeah. 100 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:39,520 Everyone was there. Everyone at the. 101 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:45,120 Bell at the, I mean, Cole was 12th at the bell in a big pack 102 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,440 and they're bunching up. So there are points in that 103 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,120 race. I'm like, is it slowing down? 104 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,080 You know, is it? And just because you are at A 105 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,760 at, you know, 13 flat pace and under, you don't It's usually a 106 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,560 trance. It's one straight line. 107 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,440 So to see the everybody in the in the hunt at the bell just 108 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,680 shows you how great all these athletes are. 109 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:12,800 But yeah, the Cole Hawker man at at about at about one at 200, 110 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,200 150 it's hit. You know, it says the way he 111 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:23,000 when he's coming up on the shoulder and he always has 112 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,200 something special in that last 100. 113 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:31,000 And so to see him at 1:50 to go on the making the moves you got 114 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,200 OK, I he's got it like it was. It was amazing. 115 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,200 Amazing thing to watch. He's got to be feeling so elated 116 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,400 to come to come away with a a gold medal in an event that's, 117 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:49,640 you know, not his primary event. So man, I what what else could 118 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,480 you say about that? Nico and Nico still Nico young 119 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,960 ran ran well didn't end up on the podium, but he was sick, but 120 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,920 he was sick 13 flat and this is another just a great learning 121 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:08,400 opportunity for the guy. The more finals he makes it, 122 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,120 which he I'm sure he will, is just going to get better and 123 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:12,520 better, more comfortable out there. 124 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,320 But yeah, I mean, man, what what a race. 125 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,920 OK, so one thing I want to point out because I've pulled up the 126 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,200 the final 200 meters of this race in front of me. 127 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,240 Unfortunately, I can't show it to you guys because we don't 128 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,200 have rights to any of this broadcast footage. 129 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,320 But I guess, Eric, the thing that stands out too is that, you 130 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,559 know, we, we had a caller on, on off the rails earlier this week 131 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,480 say it's like, oh, yeah, we mean we need a nickname for some of 132 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,360 these runners. And like for Cole Hawker, it's, 133 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,960 it's the rail merchant or something like that because he's 134 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,240 always on the rail. Turns out he doesn't need it. 135 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,680 You know, in the final lap of of today's race, most of it was, 136 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,360 was in lane 2. And it was very, very impressive 137 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,120 because, I mean, he he outkicked, you know, the likes 138 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:00,400 of Gressier, who, you know, had a lethal kick to win the 10K, 139 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,520 Isaac Camelli, who we saw this kick at the Brussels Diamond 140 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,000 League. Cole got it done without having 141 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,400 to hug the rail. I think you're going to see less 142 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:14,160 of Cole hugging the rail going forward because it's just got 143 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,600 this is to get DQ D in, in, in and not make that 1500 final 144 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,000 when he's clearly in some of the best shape of his life, if not 145 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,640 the best shape of his life, I think. 146 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:31,680 And you saw this and the and the fitter he gets, the more you 147 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:33,840 can, you can take bigger chances, right? 148 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,720 You don't need to be riding the rail if you are just a level 149 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,000 above all these guys. And when he and with about 4:50 150 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,240 to go, you saw he had to leave the rail. 151 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,720 Yeah, someone pointed it out. 22 out of the 25 turns on the rail. 152 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,440 But when he left, he, he, he. It paid off. 153 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,560 Yeah, I was, I was going to say it's awesome to see him kind of 154 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,960 figure out how to run these these 5000m championship races. 155 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,960 And he's been trying over the last couple of years to, to 156 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,920 attack of a fast one in a Diamond League or, or we saw him 157 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,760 in LA two years ago. And even when he gets out after 158 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,120 these, these fast ones, he's running, he's running like 159 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,960 12581256. I think his maybe his PB, but he 160 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,440 can't really like crack into those 40s like we've seen Grant 161 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:22,040 and Nico do so, but that doesn't matter at the end of the day. 162 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,320 Like we saw him do exactly today. 163 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,680 We saw him do exactly what he did at US as you know it, the, 164 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,200 the paces are a little different. 165 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,040 We also saw him do it in the in the prelim of the of the $5 166 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,320 meter. So he's figured his race out. 167 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,240 And yeah, he was absolutely. He was on the rails the entire 168 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:41,280 time. He got out in the lead and was 169 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,000 just on the rail the entire time until it basically a lap to go. 170 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,920 I mean, Eric and I were commenting on it like for 4000 171 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,840 meters, his head was straight down staring at like Gressier's 172 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:58,760 heels just didn't move an inch. And then also when, when Nico 173 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,480 and Grant really like kind of pushed the pace there early, he 174 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,520 didn't respond right away. He just like he kind of let the 175 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,960 field hold that gap in themselves and he didn't 176 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,240 overreact to it. So man, what a run like think of 177 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,200 just the the ups and downs of this, of of this championships 178 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,880 for him and and to be able to kind of recalibrate and set his 179 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,880 sights on a on a different goal than maybe he went into this 180 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,720 originally thinking it's cool as hell. 181 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,280 And then also you have to think of like, I mean, now we're now 182 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,520 we're getting into the whole like legacy, you know, talk of 183 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,440 Cole Hawker and yes, he already has an Olympic gold, but like 184 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,720 him winning a 5000 meter in a different event now, you know, 185 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,200 and then we're talking about like we get a healthy Yaka back 186 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,240 and now we see some different racing styles against each 187 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:46,560 other. It's it's hard for me to not 188 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:49,440 think of like the clashes that we're going to get in the next 189 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,000 few years between Cole and some of the other other best in the 190 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,120 world. I mean think about just his year 191 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,960 in general right? Like to like post Olympic final 192 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,280 and he couldn't get a win. To. 193 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:10,400 Save his life and it's and he was patient, trusted that the 194 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,520 the he just you know, you hear the saying trust the process a 195 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,680 lot. But man, the guy did that. 196 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:20,200 He goes to goes to Grand Slam and was kind of getting worked 197 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,000 by some of the other favorites and still just kept it going, 198 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,480 stayed healthy. And then turn the turn the 199 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,960 corner right around. I probably I get like you around 200 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,840 USA, but even there in the 15, you know, he's still he still 201 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,280 came in 3rd and then but man, just to see him come through 202 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:46,760 with a win like this is it's a it's a monumental achievement. 203 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,920 You talked about legacy and with just as soon as he crosses that 204 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,240 finish line today, he's in the conversation for being one of 205 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,120 the for not one of, but maybe the greatest American distance 206 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,120 runner. Well, I to to to win the Olympic 207 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:08,040 gold in a in an Olympic record time is already something so few 208 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,320 people have done on the on the American side and then to the 209 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,760 very next year 5000 meter world title against the field like 210 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,160 this. And you, you can't under. 211 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,440 You can't overstate how big this was. 212 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:23,800 Right. And a little bit of recency 213 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,280 bias, like obviously we have Bernard and and Matthew, who has 214 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,120 more, more global medals than Cole does, absolutely. 215 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,280 Gay, but Gaylyn never got the gold. 216 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,760 Never gold and and doing it in two events is is something 217 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,040 that's I don't know, it just shows the range and the type of 218 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,400 athlete that Cole is is is certainly special. 219 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,040 Man, what a what a fantastic race. 220 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,840 That was awesome. Yeah, if you think about just 221 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,480 kind of like how successful the United States was in the 222 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,560 distance events at the Paris Olympics, like overall it didn't 223 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:55,520 go quite as well this time around. 224 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,680 And, you know, up until tonight, no medals. 225 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,000 And then Colt was there to to save that. 226 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,840 And also, I guess like, we're going to live with the biggest 227 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,760 what if in our heads as what if he had never gotten DQ D? 228 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,320 Would he have been able to pull off the double? 229 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,480 You know, the fitness clearly showed there tonight, the kind 230 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:21,160 of race that unfolded in the 15 final also suits, you know, his 231 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:26,800 his strengths. And so yeah, I'm he's he's it's 232 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,840 kind of crazy to also remind yourself, like how young he is 233 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,960 and where he is already at this point in his career. 234 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:40,640 Truly, truly an epic night of racing and so A+ execution by 235 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,400 Cole Hawker. What about Gressier? 236 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,400 Gressier. He's he's a different. 237 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,720 I thought he it looked like he was going to win with 200 to go. 238 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,240 He was like, oh, Gressier, he's got it. 239 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,080 Yeah. And I think with respect to him, 240 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,160 I guess like after the first, after the 10K, we kind of were, 241 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,000 were like, all right, like it was a slow race and like they 242 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,640 let they left it up to a kick. And you when you leave it to 243 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,160 that, like someone like him could sneak in and, and get the 244 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,000 win. But now he's proven himself, I 245 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,440 guess now that he's got the tools to to be able to contend 246 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,360 in a variety of different races. And so people will view Gressier 247 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,520 differently next time around. Isaac Kamelli, same way, like he 248 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,560 had the win in Brussels over Grant. 249 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,040 And was it Brussels or or Lausanne? 250 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,480 One of the two. And people were just sort of 251 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,800 like, oh, OK, like, again, that's what happens when you 252 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,880 leave it to a kicker's race. And now he he, he backs it with 253 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,560 a silver medal here for for Belgium. 254 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:47,440 So a really strong podium just off of it. 255 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,440 Kai Robinson. Huge run by Kai. 256 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,480 If you think about it, all things considered, and we'll get 257 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:57,840 to to the women's 800 a a a solid World Championships for 258 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:03,320 OAC with, you know, Sage finishing as high as she did. 259 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,840 He got Kai here, the gold medal by George Beamish. 260 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,760 Yes, like the, you know, the likes of Yard and a Goose and 261 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,480 Ollie Hoare were were left at home. 262 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,920 Joe Zad and Joe Zad finishing super. 263 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:20,200 High So while maybe you know throughout the season, they they 264 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,400 have tons of stars that were you know battling injuries 265 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,720 throughout the year the ones that made it here definitely you 266 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,880 know performed well and I think that that team could take that 267 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,640 as a catalyst for you know 2026 so a strong performance by him 268 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,520 and then you know we're we're. Surprised to see Jakob honestly 269 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:47,800 finish 10th, 13 flat. Yeah, it's just with with can 270 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,400 never be like too surprised with it with Jakob, you know, running 271 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,240 times like this, but which is how he looked in in the, you 272 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,240 know, earlier races in this championships. 273 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,240 I was kind of surprised to see him place as as as high as he 274 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:10,240 did, run as fast as he did. But yeah, I mean, like the 275 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,000 entire field was right around 13 flat or under. 276 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,359 Besides, you know, a few people that you know, might might have 277 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,079 fallen off the pack a bit, but yeah, this, this race had 278 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,119 genuinely everything you could want in a championship 5K. 279 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,280 Chris, what was his quote that he said afterwards? 280 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,080 Something about like you? I wouldn't, yeah. 281 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,560 I wouldn't want to be sitting at home watching or something like 282 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,080 that. It was on his Instagram. 283 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,000 I got it right here, pulling it up right now. 284 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,160 It was basically, let's see, he said, and he also posted this 285 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,160 like within like 10 minutes after the race had ended. 286 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,200 I was like, he's quick with it, go big or go home. 287 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,880 The only thing worse than finishing 10s would have been 288 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,640 watching the World Championships happen from home. 289 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:53,960 I run because I love competition. 290 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,520 I will never miss an opportunity to test myself against the best. 291 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,360 Thank you to everyone for the support these past few 292 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:01,320 challenging months. I don't need to tell you that I 293 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:02,720 will be back, you know that already. 294 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,960 But for now, it's time to take a few days to recover and relax 295 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:06,400 with my family. Thank you, Japan. 296 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,440 Cool as hell. Yeah, I'm probably showing up. 297 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:10,680 Yeah, yeah. Really awesome. 298 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,680 Yeah, it lights a fire into him. And you know, kind of the the 299 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,440 cool part to this too, is that Cole doesn't have to show his 300 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,160 cards in the in the 5K all that much between now and 2027. 301 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,880 I'm sure he'll want to chase, you know, a fast time at BU or 302 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:29,480 even I guess throw him into the American record conversation in 303 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,000 both the 15 and 5K because he's so he's so talented, but he can 304 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,200 start to pull the similar move that Jakob does. 305 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,040 And it's like, don't you know, get as quick as you can in the 306 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:43,000 1500 and then just show up to the championship in the 5K. 307 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,080 What what I love and and Cole isn't afraid to lead, but we've 308 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,080 yet to see him lead in a way that Jakob kind of does, 309 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,640 especially over the final 2K. Hope Anderson's OK. 310 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,600 Jeez. But yeah, I can't wait for for 311 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,200 Jakob to kind of come back because he's one of the only 312 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,280 athletes or the only athlete that'll that'll press a race 313 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,080 when everyone else doesn't want to. 314 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:06,120 And we saw that half the day where it kind of slowed down a 315 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:10,960 little bit around 3:00 to 4K. And they just have crazy like 316 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,240 contrasting styles and like, you know, Jakob's going to I just 317 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:17,960 he's going to say something unlike if you're not leading, 318 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,880 like what are you doing? Like that's not racing because 319 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,240 that's just his mindset. And Cole is someone that in 320 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,120 these five KS and fifteens isn't going to be leading, you know, 321 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,000 600 meters out. I can't wait. 322 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:34,680 It's going to be a ton of fun. Yeah, I guess one of the final 323 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,840 points, Eric is like a little bit of a head scratcher for for 324 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:43,160 Grant Fisher. Like he's been going for so long 325 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,520 with the indoor season, the the the slams, you know, kind of 326 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,760 trying to fine tune those race tactics, maybe just a little too 327 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,120 burnt by the time he got here to Tokyo. 328 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,080 What are your thoughts? Yeah, I think exactly that. 329 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,200 I think he's had a very long year. 330 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:04,520 I mean, he ran 1244 indoors in what was it March, February, 331 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,960 February. I mean, it's and, yes. 332 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,480 You know, I'm sure he's taking some strategical down times and 333 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,720 and breaks in between that, but it's still is just a it's a very 334 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:23,240 long year and you also Grand Slam it definitely takes a toll 335 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:28,600 toll out of you some and you're seeing a lot of people that that 336 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,720 raced well in Grand Slam struggle towards the end of of 337 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,040 this season and into the championship season. 338 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:39,040 It's it just it is what it is. It doesn't seem like the 339 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:43,040 sprinters were as affected, but you are seeing some of the 340 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:48,680 distance athletes not looking quite as sharp as they usually 341 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,560 would in a in a racing and grand Fisher. 342 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:57,120 This is in a similar, similar cut to to Jakob in that this is 343 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,440 just going to be this is going to be fuel the fire. 344 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:02,920 And this is a learning thing, right? 345 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:09,640 You, you don't, he is going back with his coach to, you know, 346 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,360 reassessing how the year went and talking about how to not let 347 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:17,320 this happen again. And so I, I think he's, I'm sure 348 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:22,080 he's very disappointed. But of course, Grant being 349 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,480 Grant, you're not going to see, you're going to see a whole lot 350 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,920 more of him. Yeah, all right. 351 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,880 Epic all time men's 5K performance. 352 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:37,080 Let's jump on over to the women's 800, which also, you 353 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,960 know, if if fantastic. Race. 354 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:43,520 Yeah, if this meet, like we came into this one being like, OK, I 355 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:48,120 think I have an idea of who's going to win This race provided 356 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:53,280 another extra surprise for us as Mary Maura, the reigning world 357 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,400 champion, decides to take it and make it as like a super honest 358 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,280 race. They hit the 400 mark in 55.6. 359 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,280 Keely was kind of battling to try and be the one up in the in 360 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:12,080 the front tried, you know, sat on the heels of of Mary Mora for 361 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:13,960 a bit. But going into that bell lap, it 362 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,920 was like just some jostling for who? 363 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,600 Like hey, there was an inside pass. 364 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,480 Yeah, I was. I'm pretty sure. 365 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,960 And and 500 Keely Hodgkinson had made that inside pass. 366 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,800 Yeah. So that, yeah, there was a very 367 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,840 someone who she wrote, she decided to be a rail merchant 368 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,800 and luckily that that's that opened up for. 369 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,880 But man, I think honestly this because you know, me along with 370 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,000 everybody else, for the most part thought Keely is the heavy 371 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,440 favourites and it's it's kind of her race. 372 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:55,080 But and I think to see how much energy she used fighting to 373 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,520 maintain that position, there was about Rob, like, honestly, 374 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,480 three to three, maybe more surges to hold off. 375 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,640 Yeah. Mary Maura. 376 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,560 And there's no way that that doesn't affect you in a race 377 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,120 like the 800 at the speed that they were running. 378 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,920 Super. You know, we thought that this 379 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,520 was going to be a race that's going to be 1 quick and under 380 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:24,520 155 and because of just this the start starting list and how 381 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,160 these athletes love to get after it. 382 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:31,520 So, so I think if she could run that back, she'd say, look, I, I 383 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,840 maybe I don't use all this energy to hold off Mary. 384 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,960 Maybe I let her take it and sit on her shoulder at some point. 385 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,120 I don't, I don't know. But yeah, there was just a there 386 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:47,000 was a lot of action upfront. She ended up paying for it, you 387 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,920 know, severely down the down the home stretch. 388 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,800 But what also what is she going to do when she had? 389 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:58,040 Odira charging. Well, even before Odira was 390 00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,680 Georgia Hunter Bell. Oh yeah, her. 391 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,120 Her training partner. For sure, but but I'm trying to 392 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:07,040 like yes, Georgia Hunter Bell like did come up on Keely's 393 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,400 shoulder before Odira did. But that last, I mean Odira's 394 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,640 last 100, there's no stopping that. 395 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:18,640 And man like this. And again, this was this was the 396 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,200 race that opened up the tonight's action on the track. 397 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,600 And it really set the pace, set the tone for the events to 398 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,800 follow. And it was because this whole 399 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,720 day, this was, I mean, this was by far the best day, best energy 400 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,400 at the track for sure. The crowd was going crazy for 401 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,400 the for the relays, for, for these distance events. 402 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,960 And yeah, this was a perfect way to set up the night. 403 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,680 Yeah, Mac. Yeah, I was just to say I think 404 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,400 Mary Moore is one of my favorite athletes in the entire sport 405 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,920 just because it's like it's so clear to to see her racing. 406 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,960 Like you can see the moves that she's making it. 407 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,680 And yeah, they're, they're a little bit more dramatic maybe 408 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,720 than others, but you can like really plainly see in front of 409 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,160 you how she's affecting the race and that, yes, it's happening in 410 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,120 other races and a little bit more subtly. 411 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:10,000 But she had a huge impact on this race, even though she 412 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,480 finished 7th. And it just like goes to show 413 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,640 you how hard it is, even if you're as fit as someone like, 414 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:22,400 you know, like Keeley to, to combat those tactics from other 415 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,920 athletes. I it was fascinating to me that 416 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,400 Mary wasn't closing in down on the rail. 417 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,880 She could have shut out Keely like two or three times and and 418 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,640 and kept kept to the window. It was really, really 419 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,000 interesting. She could have really hosed 420 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,640 Keely there a couple times. You learned from the School of a 421 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,280 thing, MO, and left too much space, Yeah. 422 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,840 And left it out there and then she pulled the chute, went 423 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,840 through the pack. Georgia Hunter like was up more 424 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,560 in front than she usually is. I think that's the thing that I 425 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,920 was most critical of going into this was she tends to run really 426 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,640 far in the back and storms through. 427 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,280 She was further up in the pack and I think that kind of allowed 428 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,080 her to really have the success that she did today. 429 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,560 But I don't think anyone's beaten Odira in in today, 430 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,160 regardless of what Mary Moore is doing up front or where Georgia 431 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,200 Hunter Bell is like she was, it was her. 432 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,600 It was her day. And yeah, First off, the the 433 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,080 Kenyan distance women, my God. First time in history. 434 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,720 First time in history. That a single country has swept 435 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:26,640 all of the distance races. So we're talking 800 with Odira 436 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,360 tonight. 1500 with Faith could be gone. 5K with Beecher should 437 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:34,080 bet 10K with Beecher should bet 3000m Steeple chase with Faith. 438 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,720 Charodic marathon with Paris or Cheercher. 439 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,480 Wow. And then the total opposite is 440 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,920 Ethiopia leaving with 0 gold medals. 441 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,880 I think they had their worst ever World Championships and so 442 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,080 but but I mean for Kenya it was this has to go down as probably 443 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,080 like their greatest World Championships. 444 00:26:54,080 --> 00:27:01,240 Yeah, for sure. Oh man, yeah, they and Georgia 445 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:06,240 Hunter Bell, the decision to to do to focus on the 800 paid off, 446 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:13,200 you know, in spades with this silver medal over Keely and and 447 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,520 the field like this. What a performance by her. 448 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,120 Yeah, Odira also, too, just kind of like flies under the. 449 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,680 It flew under the radar, I think coming into this meet for sure. 450 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,280 Like, you know, we can probably do a quick search on our preview 451 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:32,520 and I forget, like if I'd even mentioned her this in a similar 452 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,320 vein. Like, didn't we talk about this 453 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,360 a couple days before that? Like Cole Hawker wasn't even 454 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:43,120 mentioned in the World Athletics preview of the men's 5K And so. 455 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,320 Yeah, yeah. So then I'm looking at Odeer and 456 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,400 it's like why, why didn't I think about her a bit more 457 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,760 coming into this one last year she qualified for the Olympic 458 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,520 team. She won like their their 459 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,960 national championships and goes to Paris, only makes it to the 460 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,640 semi finals. And at that point, like it took 461 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:08,480 her two PBS at the Olympics, she went, she ran 15883 in the in 462 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:13,600 the heats and then 15853 in the semis this year. 463 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,320 So I mean, she started the year as a 158 runner, is now ending 464 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:26,000 it as a 154.62 runner and at the World indoor Championships only 465 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,880 reached the semis. Did only raced 1 Diamond League 466 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:35,000 meet where she in in Poland where she ran one of 156 PB. 467 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,920 But in that race that was the Keely returned and where Keely 468 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,760 ran 154. So that's again like Keely stole 469 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,880 the headline. And so everyone was, you know, 470 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,000 kind of, you know, looking at that. 471 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,360 And so that's the IT makes it just like I I guess like it's, 472 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,360 it's fine to to think like where did did she come from? 473 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,280 Just quite the quite the jump this year for sure. 474 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,480 And so I'll be so curious to see, you know, just how, you 475 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,920 know, her next couple years developed. 476 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,600 She's 26 years old. I would, yeah, if I'm looking at 477 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,320 this like this, the last two years have been the first two 478 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,520 years where she's really ventured outside of Kenya to 479 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,440 race. So yeah, we'll just see, I 480 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:19,520 guess. She's obviously going to get 481 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,120 more invites to bigger meets I don't know much about. 482 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,040 Just kind of like her, her training, who coaches her, but 483 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,840 definitely a new name to learn. Shout out to Sage. 484 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,720 Her to clap. Huge shout out to absolutely. 485 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,800 Third fastest US time in history. 486 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,360 Third fastest US time in, in, in history. 487 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,480 And it's just so cool to see, you know, we've talked into 488 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,480 these microphones on, you know, on and off air relentlessly 489 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,680 about like, oh, should Sage move up? 490 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,080 And we've been saying the same thing for four years. 491 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,680 And she just stayed at the 800. And she hasn't made a team year 492 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,240 after year after year, doesn't make the US team. 493 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,320 And then she finally makes it on to this this team going to Tokyo 494 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,240 and is the lone American in both the men's and and women's 800 495 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,480 final. You know, out of out of 496 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,880 everyone, she's, she's the last one standing and totally 497 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,840 capitalizes on that with just incredible performance. 498 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,840 Yeah. Was was this the? 499 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,960 Was this the champ? The championship record. 500 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,040 Yes, yeah. So I mean, like, yeah, 154.4 501 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,320 championship record. The podium was all 154 runners, 502 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,960 Sarah Mora finishing fourth and 155.74. 503 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,000 She's the one who had all the KT tape on her leg and had to be 504 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,280 carried off the track. So I was like kind of amazed by 505 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,040 by seeing her run that well, you know, here. 506 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,400 But yeah, Sage in in 5th place even she had just like kind of 507 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,120 this total look of of shock once the time popped up on the on the 508 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,880 board. Andre Buero underperformed in 509 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,240 this one. She faded to 6. 510 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,360 Mary Maura after that super hard move faded but still around 511 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,160 1:57. And then Jess Hall was that's a 512 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,200 157 that was very calculated in terms of just like she was 513 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,960 never, she was always in the, she was in the back of the the 514 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,200 race the whole time. I mean that first they got off 515 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,280 the line yeah, today I think they were through in 2626 point 516 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:25,640 yeah, 26 four and Jess, yes, this is it was this was it was 517 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:30,680 always going to be something that that Jess was going to 518 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,440 fight and have to have to battle and claw her way into because 519 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:39,280 yes, she was probably what, 30m like she had a there's a huge 520 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,000 gap to Jess that first 101 fifty. 521 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,360 She had to really, really slowly but surely get her way back into 522 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,560 the race. But yeah, she's had a an amazing 523 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,560 championship, so I'm sure she's leaving very happy. 524 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,360 We we're getting just a couple of the insights coming from the 525 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,120 mix zone. And so I think my first thought 526 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,240 when Keely crossed the finish line and bronze was like, she's 527 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,000 going to be devastated, especially because of like the 528 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,360 pre race hype, probably that was centered around her. 529 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,760 The Olympic champion posting the fastest time coming into to 530 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,480 this. And like all signs are pointing 531 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,400 to like this is going to be the another, you know, gold medal 532 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,320 for for Keeley Hodgkinson. And then, you know, I think it 533 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,720 was soon after when Georgia's, you know, silver medal gets put 534 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,080 up on the board and then Keely's confirmed for the bronze and you 535 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,280 see them embrace. I was like, OK, all right, she's 536 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,880 going to be all right. And then she came through the 537 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,240 mix and she said, if you'd have told me back in June that even 538 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,320 be here running a 154 in the final, I wasn't even in spikes 539 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:46,400 in June. When you put that into 540 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,680 perspective, it's nothing to be too disappointed about. 541 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,720 And so I kind of think back to like a couple, you know, World 542 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:57,520 Championships back in 2022 where Rye Benjamin, I think got the 543 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,400 was that a silver or bronze Anderson for Rye in 2022. 544 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:10,960 I think he's got an Airpod on, but whatever it was Rye when he 545 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,120 came over to our backyard said like, yeah, I mean like this 546 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,360 might be a bronze, but it's shine. 547 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,160 Oh no, it was a silver. This one shines a bit brighter 548 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,040 than, you know, last year's because when you take all things 549 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,520 into consideration sometimes like, yeah, it's this is a 550 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,800 bronze. But I bet, I bet she looks at 551 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,840 it, you know, with like a it's got a different shimmer for 552 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,440 sure, because she like she said she wasn't even in spikes in in 553 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,480 June. So there's there's the World 554 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,920 Ultimate Championships next year. 555 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,320 She's got a spot in that as the reigning Olympic champion. 556 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:50,480 So in very impressive all things considered to to to see what she 557 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,640 was able to do in such a short span of time. 558 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,880 Yeah, it's good to have this adversity, right? 559 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,680 Like true champions aren't just like they're champions after 560 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,760 going through hard moments in your career. 561 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,880 It's it's never, it's always more impressive when you see 562 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,800 these people go through hard times and low points and bounce 563 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,400 back to be where they were at or even better than before. 564 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,960 So I would imagine this is just an, just like the other people 565 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,040 that like, like we talked about with Jacob, this is just a 566 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,440 stepping stone. And still, yes, she clearly has 567 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,120 a good head on her shoulders to be able to, to look at it and 568 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,040 say it. Look, this is a it's a it's I 569 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,120 came away with the metal. I was hurt at for a very long 570 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,239 time throughout this whole year, a lot of pressure on me and it's 571 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,560 it's, and she still was able to come away with the metal. 572 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,719 So yeah, it's a, it's a good mindset to have. 573 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,920 Yep, someone theorizing in the YouTube chat was that Team 574 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,840 Tactics by Team Kenya? I don't think so, because I 575 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,480 would think, I don't think there's any connection between 576 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,440 Mary Moore and and Lillian Odira. 577 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,600 It just so happens that that's what Mary thought that the best 578 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000 approach is going to be toward the race. 579 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,400 All right, So that is the women's 800. 580 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,520 Excellent race. Can watch that back over and 581 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,480 over again because it was it was good. 582 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,480 All right. Then after that, we had some 583 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:21,080 relay action taking place. Anderson, come on over and let's 584 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:26,000 chat through these relays because they were good At this 585 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,160 point, the rain started coming down in the stadium. 586 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,160 I like how the stadium is built because like it allowed for all 587 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,480 of the a lot of the fans to stay dry. 588 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:45,600 Anderson needs a bike that the the fans for the most part, I 589 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,640 think stayed dry and then it just kind of like funneled 590 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,360 immediately and dumped onto all all the athletes and on the 591 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:53,640 track. It was bad. 592 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:55,600 Yeah, they they, it looked. Beautiful it was. 593 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,640 Poetic it was, really. Yeah, they. 594 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,760 Have the athletes standing out there for like 20 minutes. 595 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,960 They were there for a long. Time been pouring. 596 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,400 Right. Vernon Norwood's on the start 597 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,040 line just cracking up laughing because he knew that he's like 598 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,120 this. This sucks for everybody, but in 599 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,680 particular I guess like the first couple steps that Vernon 600 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,800 took in the race, I was like, I feel like we got more puddles 601 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,680 than everyone else, like. Yeah, I feel like this was a 602 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,960 setup. Yeah, so let's get into the 603 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,280 men's 4x4. We knew that this was going to 604 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:32,360 be a battle between Botswana and the United States, and the 605 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:37,320 United States held strong for a good portion of it. 606 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,560 You know, Vernon with a strong first leg handing off to Jacori. 607 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,240 So it's Jacori versus Tobogo. Jacori holds off Tobogo. 608 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:50,240 Yeah, before the handoff, even though Tobogo split 4405. 609 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,000 Yeah, on that second leg. And a reminder the second leg is 610 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,840 is typically the fastest. Yeah, but but reminder to your 611 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,840 point, Jacori was running out of lane one. 612 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,320 Yeah, it was like the most puddles. 613 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,880 So like, yeah, to run this fast is actually really good. 44 two. 614 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,160 And then from there, hands off to Caleb McRae. 615 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,520 Caleb has a little bit of a battle there with Bayapo and 616 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,840 Dory. Yeah, that's when it really 617 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:19,240 started to get a bit tighter. And then when Rye Benjamin takes 618 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:24,080 the baton in fourth place as a United States fan, like, you 619 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,280 feel good about it because we've seen this play out before. 620 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,880 And he doesn't have the threat of, let's see, Le Tibogo, but he 621 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,440 still had. Kevin not Shippy. 622 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,200 The gold medalist from the four. The gold medalist from the 400. 623 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,600 That's the thing. It's like. 624 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,680 He just ran 43 six. Yeah, gold or whatever, 43, 625 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,320 five. Kevin not Shippy, not a 626 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,600 household name because it's very hard to say, but definitely not 627 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,680 he. He he is now making a case that 628 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,240 I think like everyone will be able to spell Kevin not Shippy 629 00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:58,080 and say it by the end of these World Championships. 630 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:05,520 So he ends up just, I guess, like the rye got after it and 631 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,080 was closing in. Like he could not have, you 632 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,040 know, sniffed out that finish line any sooner. 633 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:17,040 But in those final 50 meters, it was clear that he was tying up a 634 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,400 little bit. And when you're out in front, 635 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,520 you've got a target on your back and so cabinet should be just 636 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:27,480 immediately locked in and managed to get him just before 637 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,640 the finish line. It almost looked at South Africa 638 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:30,760 was almost going to get the 2 they. 639 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,680 Got the they finished with the same time 250-7883 and for the 640 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,840 United States, same thing for South Africa, like it was 641 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,920 literally to the line. And I mean I I think that. 642 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:51,480 Point .0. Yeah, by separating US and South 643 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,480 Africa, which was crazy. I think that Botswana might have 644 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,560 kind of, I guess smelled blood in the water. 645 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,080 Considering everything that that unfolded with the United States 646 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,360 over the past two days. With, you know, the whole, you 647 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,040 know, getting, you know, blocked by Zambia in the heats, having 648 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,320 to run, you know, less than 12 hours later, you know, this 649 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,080 morning with, you know, the rerun with Kenya successfully 650 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,200 qualifying and then finally getting the team into the final. 651 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,560 And then to cap things off, everything with pouring rain. 652 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,360 Like, I feel like things were just going against the United 653 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,000 States today. But I mean, all things 654 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,520 considered, for the United States to be able to hold on and 655 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,960 get the silver medal, it's pretty impressive considering 656 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,000 everything that came together. Spoke with Rye and Vernon, the 657 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,080 whole team afterwards and they said that honestly, they didn't 658 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,840 obviously because we didn't qualify, they didn't know if 659 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,440 they were going to run. And then like they also were 660 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,440 unsure just on like the relay legs and like what order and 661 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:50,600 like all kinds of things like that. 662 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:55,600 So and even Rye did drop in the in the interview that like he 663 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,560 was, he was kind of out a little bit last night. 664 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,600 So yeah, I mean. Yeah. 665 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,440 He he dropped a little bit. I mean, not to say he also 666 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,840 didn't give any excuses, right? He's like a professional. 667 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,560 He knows all right, I got to show up for my team. 668 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,280 So he's like. He's like, I shouldn't have said 669 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,280 that, probably because. Like I shouldn't have been a 670 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:22,480 karaoke, maybe I should have called it after one song, but. 671 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,480 I I do want to give kudos to Botswana though, like the fact 672 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,160 that they got the silver medal last year behind the United 673 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,320 States in an epic, you know, head to head race. 674 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,520 Now they get the gold medal and there's a degree of me that 675 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,960 feels like this was the time for Botswana to win gold because 676 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,760 they got three guys in the final, they won the four in the 677 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,040 400 final, they won the gold medal, they won the bronze 678 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,760 medal. It was like, and then Tabo just 679 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,320 missed the the podium in the 200. 680 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,440 It was like things were coming together for Botswana to get the 681 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,240 gold medal. If it was going to be a time, 682 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,280 this was probably the time for them to do it. 683 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,920 I presume first ever gold medal in the 4 by 4 but. 684 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,320 First ever for Botswana, first ever for any African nation. 685 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,320 Wow A. Gold in the four by four. 686 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:04,400 Yeah, that's. Huge. 687 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:10,640 This, this, this was this was. I think of all of, of the entire 688 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,760 week, this, the stadium was going the most crazy for this 689 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,680 4x4. The men's, it was they were, 690 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,000 they were really for at one point we were me and Mac like 691 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,520 looked around because I thought we were sitting in like the 692 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,880 Botswana section. They were like actually going 693 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:30,680 crazy. So this was a super fun race. 694 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,160 Probably, you know, one of the highlights of the of the of the, 695 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,320 you know, World Championships experience in my opinion. 696 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,880 Yeah, I think that this was this was a long time coming. 697 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,800 I think it's I like this rivalry if it's something that's going 698 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,960 to take shape. In addition to that, 699 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,360 piggybacking off what Eric just said, he just kind of goes to 700 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,640 show you that the the 4 by 4 is the way to close out the meet. 701 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:03,000 Like, I personally didn't really think that it should have been 702 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,800 the four by one at the. I kind of think I understand it 703 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,480 with Japan probably being more of a factor, yeah. 704 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,480 Yeah, that was. Clearly. 705 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,800 Yeah, that's probably why it was changed up here. 706 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,560 But if? If that was fun though, like to 707 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:19,600 see the crowd, they were losing it when they were introducing 708 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,960 the Japanese team and the, and each and they would, they put 709 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,240 the camera on each of the legs and they each one of them had 710 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,080 like a kind of a different intro like pose. 711 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,360 And it was what they, the everybody was actually kind of 712 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,040 losing their minds in the stands. 713 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,640 I I saw something on Twitter which is really cool. 714 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,880 Is that and I don't, you know, again, like I'm not a big anime 715 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,360 guy, but like anime, anime. Yeah, anime guy. 716 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:52,080 But like there was, there's been multiple like intros that people 717 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:58,720 have done with like references to to anime, anime, like I don't 718 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,360 know, like Noah had some X written on his arm. 719 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,800 I don't know what any of this stuff means. 720 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,840 But like then I saw a side by side of like that was like I 721 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,680 think it was called One Piece. Yeah, One Piece is a yeah, 722 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:10,840 Really, really crazy popular anime. 723 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know I don't watch anime 724 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,280 but like One Piece is big. OK, if you feel like Noah was 725 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,960 playing to the crowd, like he had it, you know, on his arm, 726 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,560 people were doing the poses as as they were from different 727 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,920 shows and stuff. But so like if you're a big 728 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,880 anime anime guy, like then you probably would have been able to 729 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,880 like pick up on all of these different things. 730 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:36,480 And so, yeah, the atmosphere at the in the 4 by 4, even the four 731 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,080 band 1 is good. Hey, really quick. 732 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,680 Like kudos to South Africa on that on that third one. 733 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,120 But let's talk about Wade. Van, I was going to say yeah, 734 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,560 Wade. Van he like he really put him 735 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,240 back into. The Wade 32 is what's being. 736 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:51,240 Reported what's being reported by by a couple of people. 737 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,680 Like, I don't know why the official splits aren't up, but 738 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:54,840 yeah. We can't believe. 739 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,360 Yeah, like. I know they were like what Wade 740 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,440 van Niekerk, like, obviously he's the Olympic gold medalist, 741 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,120 the world record holder in the 400. 742 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,360 For whatever reason, he's been running to 200 last year and 743 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:08,760 this year and. He said at one point he's like, 744 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,720 I hate the 400. He hates the 400. 745 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,400 It was just kind of like a a curse that he was like, I was, I 746 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,720 was really good at it and I was just like I was forced to do it. 747 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,800 Hate the 400 even when he was I. Think I think. 748 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,520 While he was erasing it yes, it is like one of the worst pains 749 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,280 you'll feel like I actually it actually makes total sense why 750 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,800 he would hate it, but you would think that your success, the 751 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,400 success it would be like a mandatory you have to run the 752 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,160 400. It's like, yeah, look, you guys 753 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:43,520 suck it up for 45 little less seconds, but this was flashbacks 754 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,880 of like Crime Van Niekerk on that. 755 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,520 Absolutely like 44 two is one of the fastest splits in history. 756 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,720 Like if this is accurate, it's like one of the fastest 4 by 4 757 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,880 splits in history. But like even aside from that, I 758 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,000 think because this entire South African team is really, really 759 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,760 young except for wade. I think he really wanted to do 760 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,520 it for his team. He would he's it's almost a way 761 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,680 of like, all right, I'm literally passing the baton off 762 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,200 to this next generation, right? He's he's in his 30s or 763 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,440 something like that. You know, it's, it's almost 10 764 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,320 years, you know, removed from his world record in Olympic 765 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,560 gold. I think he's just like, listen, 766 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:23,960 this is my chance to this might be who knows, my last time, you 767 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,240 know, competing with this team. Let me make sure I can execute 768 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,600 for them and give them something to to celebrate, right? 769 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:31,960 I think that was a big one for Wade. 770 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,800 I mean, it's crazy. You went crazy, Crazy. 771 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,640 So yeah. Yeah, I mean, he's, he's not 772 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,520 done. He's far from being done. 773 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,320 He's not done. He's not done as long as you 774 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,040 know, I, I don't know. I'd love to see him in the 400 775 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,880 again, but as long as he's still running, we, we're going to 776 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,920 watch. Did Botswana say anything fun or 777 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,000 interesting in the in the mid? No, didn't get your chance to 778 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,640 speak with them. They were, it was really weird 779 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:54,840 down there. They were pushing them through 780 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,960 for like the medal ceremonies, but then some of the athletes 781 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,160 wanted to come back. So Botswana, they kind of rolled 782 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,560 through. But then I guess they came back 783 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,480 for African media. So didn't get a chance to speak 784 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,320 with them. But I mean, they, they were like 785 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,080 they were high stepping through the mix zone like they were, I 786 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,480 think I saw it on the track they were doing. 787 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,680 It the high step telephone, I was going to say so they high 788 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,800 stepped right right from the finish line through the mix 789 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,880 zone. They're high stepping through 790 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,880 the streets right now. Yeah, I want to know where that 791 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,640 after party is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 792 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,600 That's the. Botswana one Max, did you see 793 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,960 what I sent you or can you pull it up on the screen? 794 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:34,040 He's trying to. I found the the anime like the 795 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,640 pros, I just want to show it to the YouTube crowd because they 796 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,160 they probably would understand it and appreciate it a little 797 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,680 bit more. I feel like Japan has been like 798 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,400 the dream place for all these athletes because they didn't get 799 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,760 the get the experience at the Olympics last time. 800 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,560 And now I feel like every athlete is just talking about 801 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,960 like anime and manga and like all kinds of things. 802 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:53,960 Right now. It's just been. 803 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:58,360 There it is like every one of the people being introduced for 804 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:03,040 the four by Is this 4x4 4 by 4? By one for Japan. 805 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,440 I had like a different thing. Noah actually did the first one 806 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,880 too, before the 200 meter final. Like he did the I don't know 807 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,520 what they're doing and all those, so I'm not even gonna 808 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:16,280 pretend to explain it. Yeah, but created crazy. 809 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:16,920 That's pretty. Cool. 810 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,280 By the time they got to like, they by the time the, the, the 811 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:24,320 big screen got to like the third leg, the they were like people 812 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,040 having like seizures and like strokes in the stands. 813 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,520 They loved it so much. And I and I, I'm not. 814 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,480 And I was losing it. Yeah, I'm like, this must mean 815 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:34,800 something. Yeah. 816 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,720 But like, yeah, super. It's we need more of it. 817 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:43,600 It's fun to see because I did. Did anyone from Japan get get a 818 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,520 medal get a medal in this? Walks. 819 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,720 I think they got two in the walks that was. 820 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,560 Only in the race walks. In the race walks, that was only 821 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,600 two medals they got. God, I should I, I, I blew it by 822 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:58,560 not going to those, but it's fun to see the crowd really cheer 823 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:00,400 regardless of positioning, right? 824 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,520 Like it's they're, they're cheering for these athletes. 825 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,840 They could be in last place and you would think that they're in 826 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,200 the in the hunt for a metal. It's fun to see, and it's fun to 827 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:11,640 be a part of in the in the stands. 828 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,400 Yeah, it's, I also just find it interesting. 829 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,800 I I love the crowd. I love the athletes of the 830 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,880 Japanese crowd and athletes. And then it's really 831 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,680 interesting, like, like you said, no matter where they 832 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,040 finish their cheering. But then also when the athletes 833 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,160 finish, like they will bow to every corner of the entire 834 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,760 stadium to make sure that they're like, you know, showing 835 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,040 their respect, obviously. But it's, it's crazy. 836 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,120 It's pretty dope. We got to take back Bow going 837 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,280 with us to the states. Yes, I like bowing. 838 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,240 Yeah, it's a lot of fun, all right. 839 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:43,720 When we had the women's 4x4, which was not a surprise 840 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:48,800 whatsoever because the United States has the best team in the 841 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,640 world. And so we went. 842 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,640 Isabel Whitaker, Luna, Irby Jackson, Olia Butler, Cindy 843 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,240 McLaughlin, Lebroni. And by the time I got to Sydney, 844 00:48:57,240 --> 00:49:00,720 it was Sharpie keep, you know, already start engraving them. 845 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,320 They start engraving the metals as soon as the handoff goes to 846 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,440 Sydney. Yeah. 847 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,840 And in the rain and on the wet track, Sydney splits 47.82. 848 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,840 What do you mean? Yeah, Imagine what that would 849 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,840 have been on a on a dry. Dry track. 850 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,760 I mean, yeah, she would have split 47 low. 851 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,440 This was this was big like like you said, they by the time even 852 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,520 like Lena Irby Jackson because she split 48 seven, which is 853 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:28,720 wild. By the time she handed off to 854 00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:31,280 Aaliyah Butler, the the race was over. 855 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,920 This was, you know, sealed sut. What do you say? 856 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,400 Sealed Sign. Sealed. 857 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:36,320 Delivered. Sign sealed. 858 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:37,120 Delivered. There we go. 859 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,720 Good movie too. Right, like yeah, and I I think 860 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:45,120 it's a perfect capstone to like what Sydney has done at these 861 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,720 championships, winning, winning gold in like perfect fashion in 862 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,080 the 400, like becoming one of the greatest of all time across 863 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,760 the board. Then to anchor this team, right. 864 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,680 She had she had won or she had run second leg for the United 865 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,320 States on actually most of the four by fours. 866 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,640 I think maybe in Eugene she ran the anchor leg, but she'd been 867 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,800 running second leg for many of these four by fours and now she 868 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,480 gets to anchor things off in the perfect way running 47 eight. 869 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,120 What I found interesting was everyone had been calling for 870 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,560 FEMCA versus Sydney on the 4 by 4 at at some point or in an open 871 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,800 four and like we got it. Just obviously not the way that 872 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,200 people think. Now clearly even if Femke got 873 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,520 the baton at the same time, it wouldn't have mattered. 874 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,200 But I mean. Sydney should have waited for 875 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,520 Femke at the start and then and then taking off and then. 876 00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,600 Taking. Off another impressive leg in 877 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:38,920 this whole thing. Well, so Jamaica ends up with 878 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,360 the silver medal here. Yeah, silver medal Nikisha 879 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,000 Price. Rendering price 48 point. 880 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,800 Five, yeah, that was big. That was big. 881 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,680 And then Netherlands got the bronze medal. 882 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:49,920 It was, I guess it was interesting. 883 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,000 I in my mind and I'm kind of looking back at the mixed relay 884 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,080 too. In my mind, I thought Femke 885 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,040 would do a lot better on these relays, right. 886 00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,400 We've known her as like running down. 887 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,520 Oh, if Femke is like super close, she's going to be able to 888 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,800 run down some team. I thought she would be more 889 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,040 competitive, but in this and in the mix, it seemed like she was 890 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,800 just like, all right, I'm just too far behind. 891 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,320 I'm just gonna let it go like. Yeah. 892 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,920 And then she wasn't even as dominant as I thought she would 893 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,400 be, like in the 400 hurdles. Yeah, yeah, either. 894 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:25,000 So I mean, that could be some athletes can end up banged up 895 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,120 heading into a championship and we don't know honestly, like if 896 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,520 if that was the case, but it wasn't as electrifying. 897 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,680 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And well, we, we set this really 898 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:39,560 high standard and bar for That's true, But you know, yeah, USA 899 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,440 comes away with with the gold. So Sydney takes a double gold. 900 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,280 And I was trying to think like, I guess like it was, it's been 901 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:51,840 fairly common to win 400 gold and then 4x4 because it's. 902 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:56,040 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Phyllis Francis, Allison, Felix. 903 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,120 Felix, Sonia Richards Ross has done a Yeah, yeah, it's, it's 904 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,720 it's pretty common throughout. But I mean, it does add to the 905 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:08,480 fact that now Sydney has 400 gold, 4 by 4 golds and world 906 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,680 records and now 4 by 4 golds. Like that is very, I actually 907 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,480 don't think any woman has done that. 908 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:17,920 Yeah, yeah, I don't think any woman's done that. 909 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,680 You Lucinda Dimas has a 4 by 4 gold and a a 400 hurdle gold. 910 00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,600 But we're talking about 3 different events. 911 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,200 Sydney is goat. GOAT. 912 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,120 Then we shift on over to the four by ones. 913 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:36,480 We started off with the women's race, which was a good one. 914 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,320 This one was good. This was competitive and still 915 00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,200 still raining. Like the rain is still. 916 00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,680 It's not as heavy as the men's 4x4 that was like torrential 917 00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,600 downpour, but it's still raining. 918 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:51,000 And and the US women in the four by one have experience in the 919 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,320 rain because that's what happened in in. 920 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,120 Paris last year. Yeah, yeah. 921 00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,800 The fun part, I guess before the race is like as people are 922 00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,840 getting introduced, I noticed the Clayton twins were doing 923 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,720 something where they were like tucking their hands underneath 924 00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:05,360 like their tops, so keeping their receiving hand dry. 925 00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:06,520 And I was like, oh, that's smart. 926 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:07,840 I was like, that's smart. I was like. 927 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,360 Yeah, that's really smart. It, it, I mean, it helped them, 928 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,600 but it didn't necessarily. It wasn't everything for them. 929 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,960 Because Melissa Jefferson Wooden takes off against Shelley and 930 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,360 Frazier Price. Shelley, he went crazy. 931 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,360 Like and Shelley split faster, actually. 932 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,320 Yeah, 1132 for Shelley and then 11:38 for Melissa Jefferson 933 00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,600 wouldn't. Yeah, I was, I was watching. 934 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,400 When I was watching, I was like my eyes were just locked in on 935 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,040 Melissa because I'm like, all right, she's coming in, right. 936 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,560 We saw Jason in the in the heats. 937 00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:42,440 Now Melissa, who's literally the golden girl of these 938 00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,600 championships, coming in on first leg. 939 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,040 We've seen her run first leg at multiple championships at this 940 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:49,480 point. And I'm like, all right, she's 941 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,200 about to explode. And she does. 942 00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,080 Then in my eyes go to Shelly. And I'm like, whoa, like Shelly 943 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,200 in literally her final race of her career at the World 944 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,560 Championships, Like this was it for Shelly. 945 00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:05,280 And she blasts off like as if she was like, no, like, I'm 946 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,400 going to, I'm going to show put on a show for my last one. 947 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,280 That was that was a good first leg. 948 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,320 Yeah. And then she hands up to Tia 949 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,840 Clayton, MJW hands off to TT Terry. 950 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:19,280 And TT is the one who really kind of saves this race for for 951 00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,960 the United States from getting out of hand and and you know, to 952 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,560 Jamaica because TT splits, you know, 993. 953 00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,880 I mean, these splits, of course, like take it with a grain of 954 00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,040 salt. Take everything with a grain of 955 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:33,040 salt here. But TT had an explosive leg. 956 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:37,000 And then at the same time, like I trust her with with these hand 957 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,880 offs, like he's got so much relay experience. 958 00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,680 Might be like the best relay runner that we've seen in the 959 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,160 United States since and Allison Felix or what? 960 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:47,640 About Jenna Prandini. Or Jenna Prandini too. 961 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,200 Yes, yes, shout out to Jenna Prandini. 962 00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,360 Yeah, like, but she's just in that realm of like she's going 963 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:57,240 to execute on her leg or whatever leg you put her on and 964 00:54:57,240 --> 00:54:58,920 make sure that the team is together. 965 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,560 Make sure that the team is is getting the at least the gold 966 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,800 medals now, like they've USA has won gold at every championships 967 00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:10,000 since 2022. And even the way that TT speaks 968 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,760 like in the mix zone afterwards in whatever interviews, like she 969 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,200 really is a leader. I think so too. 970 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,880 She is a true leader and like the glue for the four by one. 971 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,040 And yeah, I I think she should be on every four by one at this 972 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,280 point. Like I I really do think so. 973 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,960 Yeah, they ended up going with a Dennis Mitchell squad. 974 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:33,440 From there it goes TT to Kayla White to Shakira Richardson and 975 00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,000 it all of this was kind of building up. 976 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,640 And by the time I guess it's Shakira, it's like your level of 977 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:40,080 of trust and your heart rate kind of goes down because it's 978 00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:44,120 like, all right, the United States is in good hands and 979 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,520 Shakira pulls away. She does it well. 980 00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:48,800 I mean, she almost, it was pretty close. 981 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:49,800 I was. Going to say it's kind of close. 982 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,640 Jamaica was actually kind of running Shakira down a little 983 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,560 bit there. And they they. 984 00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were kind of running her 985 00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,240 down. And what's interesting here is 986 00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:02,680 I, I didn't look at the start. I only knew who USA was running. 987 00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:03,840 I didn't know who Jamaica was running. 988 00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:08,160 And so I'm watching the race and I'm like, OK, Sharika is running 989 00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,880 Shakari down. Yeah, like Sharika wasn't there. 990 00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,920 And I've no idea why, but this was Janelle Smith instead of 991 00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,720 Sharika, So it was interesting. Yeah. 992 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:20,920 Is there any, I guess, like can we speculate on any sort of just 993 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,680 like rift between the Jamaican Athletics Association and I? 994 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,120 Don't think it was a riff. I mean, granted, who knows after 995 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,880 the 200, that's the only time that Sharika stopped to talk and 996 00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,960 she said that she was going to be on the 4 by 1. 997 00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,960 So I I don't know. The only I guess the initial 998 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,000 thing that I thought was Sharika just had a long championships 999 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,480 this year. She wasn't really as fit. 1000 00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,480 You know, she was kind of building back off of not getting 1001 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,520 medals, you know, being injured last year at the Olympics. 1002 00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,680 And she probably may have just been exhausted or maybe she 1003 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,480 didn't get a chance to like practice with the team. 1004 00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:57,120 I don't know. That was my initial speculation. 1005 00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,840 But it was surprising to not see Sharika there. 1006 00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:03,040 But I mean, Jamaica still again, they they hold held their own. 1007 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,720 Yeah, held their own. And then I think Germany was the 1008 00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:09,440 bronze medal coming up with Gina Luka Kemper. 1009 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,640 They actually got bronze last year at the Olympics. 1010 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,600 So they they were double back, which is pretty good. 1011 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,560 Great Britain off the off the podium. 1012 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,240 What went wrong here? That that was tough they. 1013 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,040 I mean seriously, like, I mean, they were a contender. 1014 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,160 I mean, it was. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. 1015 00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,800 They they were medalists. They should have been medalists 1016 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,480 on paper and their their last hand off wasn't great. 1017 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:35,800 This is the order should Amy Hunt should. 1018 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,920 Have Amy Hunt and switch. This was the same. 1019 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,200 I forget who ran who ran the third leg for Graper in Desiree 1020 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:44,160 Henry. Desiree Henry. 1021 00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,200 So this was I think this is the same team from the Olympics last 1022 00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,560 year. I forget if someone was 1023 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,440 different, but it was Dina, Asher Smith, Amy Hunt and then 1024 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:55,600 Daryl Need on anchor. So I don't I don't know. 1025 00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:00,200 I think there's things to consider of just like Daryl Nita 1026 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:04,080 maybe isn't in the as greatest form considering last year, 1027 00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,520 Dionysha Smith maybe not in the the best form. 1028 00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:07,840 Amy Hunt is in the form of her life. 1029 00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,000 But you know who knows? Who knows? 1030 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,000 It's really really tricky. I do want to note here as well 1031 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,480 that USA getting gold gives Melissa Jefferson Wooden the the 1032 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:22,960 triple print triple. MJW becomes the first American 1033 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,160 woman to win all three gold medals at the World 1034 00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,360 Championships. The only other woman in history 1035 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:33,400 to do that is Shelly Ann Fraser Price at the World's Thirteen. 1036 00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:39,480 And yeah, I it was. This was Melissa's year with the 1037 00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:43,800 100 PR that puts her at #4 all time, The 200 PR that puts her 1038 00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:49,080 at #8 all time, 3 gold medals at the World Championships. 1039 00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,520 Just dominance from start to finish. 1040 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,520 What a breakout year. But we got a taste of it in 1041 00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:00,880 20/20/2024. This all began really in the 1042 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:06,560 take off began in 2022. Last year, just even coming off 1043 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,120 of the Olympics, you're kind of just like, well, like I wish 1044 00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,240 Melissa was just like a bigger star name. 1045 00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,800 And then this I think will do wonders for for people to 1046 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:21,720 familiarize themselves with with her in the lead up to the to the 1047 00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:23,400 home Olympics. LA Olympics. 1048 00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,760 Yeah, this this was so big for Melissa and everything like this 1049 00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:32,120 was a a truly a dream season. Like I, I think yeah, she lost 1050 00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,760 one single race this year and it was the 200 in Miami. 1051 00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,960 That's the only race she lost this year, the only time she. 1052 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,720 But that race still won her the the the Slam title. 1053 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,440 Exactly 1. I guess I had to that. 1054 00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:49,920 Just like race true of the year, like 3 Grand Slam titles and you 1055 00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:55,200 know, $400,000 someday. Yeah, So like a huge year for 1056 00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:56,080 her. This this was. 1057 00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,240 This was so big and I'm I'm so happy for Melissa because, you 1058 01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,120 know, she like you said, she wasn't like. 1059 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,840 The star that, you know, people had known her as she, you know, 1060 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,560 came out of NCAA. She's, you know, relatively 1061 01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,880 reserved, kind of. I remember even in Eugene after, 1062 01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,920 you know, she was, she made the 100m final, but you know, she 1063 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:16,360 finished I think last place in that race. 1064 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,040 But she was just like, yo, I'm happy to be here. 1065 01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,200 Like this is my first final out of college. 1066 01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:23,240 And now we see her coming into the championships here. 1067 01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:26,720 She's like, no, I feel like I'm chasing other people. 1068 01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,800 I feel like I'm the underdog. I feel like I need to prove 1069 01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,080 myself. And she delivers in the best way 1070 01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,600 possible, winning three consecutive gold or three gold 1071 01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:38,800 medals and obviously the first at the World Championships for 1072 01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,840 the United States. But she joins Wilma Rudolph, 1073 01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:45,120 who's literally legend, a legend, and also Florence 1074 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,560 Griffith Joyner, also a legend, as they did it at the Olympic 1075 01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,760 Games. So like, this is history Melissa 1076 01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,920 Jefferson wouldn't making absolute history in at the World 1077 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,720 Championships. Amazing. 1078 01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:59,520 And then with Shelly Ann, if we're just kind of crunching 1079 01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:02,200 those stats, she finishes her world championship career with 1080 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:04,680 17. It's crazy. 1081 01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:06,120 This is 17 or 15. It's 17. 1082 01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,800 I think it's 17, yeah, 10. Gold 6. 1083 01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:10,520 Silver 1 Bronze. Crazy. 1084 01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,600 That is just. World Championships and then I 1085 01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:14,880 think if you add the Olympics one. 1086 01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,960 Championships. And and Olympics like. 1087 01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:22,560 I think that's another nine. So I think it's that's crazy, 20 1088 01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,560 total medals. That's cool. 1089 01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,920 Yeah, that acts. Like, yeah, we're throwing 1090 01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,720 around greatest American distance center of all time for 1091 01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:34,760 Cole Hawker, and he's got 2 medals. 1092 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,680 We need more displays, Yeah. Yeah, what's great is that and. 1093 01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:42,680 Then with the numbers with Shelly. 1094 01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,960 Remember, she missed 2017 to have her kid. 1095 01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,520 That's so true. She would have had more back 1096 01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,200 then. It's actually crazy. 1097 01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:51,600 That's actually crazy. Did. 1098 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,200 You have the most medals in track and field and. 1099 01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:55,720 Most decorated Athens decoration. 1100 01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,320 Maybe Allison. I think Allison, I think Allison 1101 01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,720 is, yeah. And then the benefit of Allison 1102 01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,920 is she was doing the four by ones and four by fours. 1103 01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,160 So she had. Yeah, and she got mixed right 1104 01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:08,240 and. She took the mix. 1105 01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,440 Yeah, that's true. That's actually so true. 1106 01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:12,280 Wow, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1107 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,720 I remember in Eugene she ran the mix relay and then they like she 1108 01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,640 went back to LA and they called her back to run on the heats of 1109 01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,280 the four by four, I think at the Eugene World Champs. 1110 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,240 Yeah, she was like the famous quote, I think was that she was 1111 01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,480 enjoying chicken wings or something. 1112 01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:26,960 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, she got the ball. 1113 01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,640 To go and rejoin the team. Yeah, but I mean, Shelly Ann, 1114 01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,720 like to your point, this was well, her final race, the first 1115 01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,000 question or the first thing that was said in the mix zone was 1116 01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,280 like, you know, the final race of your career. 1117 01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:42,360 And she was like, I still have my my kids race, you know, 1118 01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:45,840 coming up in the future. So, you know, she she's she's an 1119 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,760 amazing athlete. She's an amazing person. 1120 01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,560 And to see her cap off her career with an amazing, you 1121 01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,280 know, getting a silver medal on the four by one and running an 1122 01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:59,840 amazing first leg, I think the impact that Shelley Ann has made 1123 01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:04,120 has left on this sport is going to be very, very hard for anyone 1124 01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:06,480 to top. Like, you know, I was in Jamaica 1125 01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:10,120 and even Usain Bolt was like, yo, Shelley is at the same level 1126 01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,360 as me in terms of what she's done for Jamaican track and 1127 01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,000 field, what she's done for the sport on a whole. 1128 01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,600 And like all of these different women, I think Melissa Jefferson 1129 01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,800 wouldn't after they finished. Like she I don't know what she 1130 01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:26,240 exactly said, but I saw her go up to Shelley and embrace her 1131 01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,160 and be like she must have said something, something like, Yo, 1132 01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:30,400 this is you're one of the reasons I'm here. 1133 01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:34,240 Like, you know, all these women have almost like come up under 1134 01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,440 Shelly as she is like almost the godmother of, you know, this 1135 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:39,240 current generation of track and field in a sense. 1136 01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:41,600 You know what I feel like this championships didn't have enough 1137 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,120 of, I guess from our media standpoint is press conferences 1138 01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,120 where like in the past in Budapest and then even in Paris, 1139 01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,600 like you get the press conference interactions like 1140 01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:52,720 Melissa Jefferson Wooden and like Shelly Ann Fraser Price. 1141 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,280 We had that with like Shakari and and Sharika, all that kind 1142 01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:57,480 of stuff that like we just didn't get. 1143 01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,320 Yeah. How about your gene? 1144 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:01,120 Yeah. Yeah. 1145 01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,880 So, but in general, just, yeah, there's there's some great 1146 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,680 respect between these generations of, of of all time 1147 01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:13,040 sprinters. So it sounds like Shelly Ann is 1148 01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,160 done competing at the professional level. 1149 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,760 Like I thought for some reason there would be like a chance 1150 01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:22,560 that she would do Athos, but especially New York Jamaican 1151 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,280 presence, yeah, later started the season and all that stuff. 1152 01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,960 Like bodes well for like, all right, she could get one more. 1153 01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:31,000 But I think at this point like this is the exclamation point 1154 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:32,600 you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1155 01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:34,440 Career. I think this was perfect. 1156 01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:38,760 Like, end your career with a medal, literally handing off the 1157 01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,920 baton to the next generation. Like, she, she actually 1158 01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,840 literally did that. It's like she is ending off her 1159 01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:48,680 career on her own terms. Doesn't have to, you know, Yeah, 1160 01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,280 She she's she's the GOAT. She's the goat. 1161 01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,120 All right. And then we had one more race on 1162 01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,160 the day. We had the men's 4 by 1. 1163 01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:03,960 Men's 4 by 1. Relay, which, yeah, if you're 1164 01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,760 watching in the stands, your hands are a little sweaty 1165 01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,120 because you're just like, we've seen this before, actually. 1166 01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:12,440 But like, to be fair to the Team USA, that's mostly at the 1167 01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,080 Olympics. At the Olympics, not so much at 1168 01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,480 the world champions. World champs we we hold things 1169 01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:20,400 together you know we've meddled every time since 2017. 1170 01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:25,960 Now we haven't won gold every time, 2017, 2022 we got silver, 1171 01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,360 but like it seems like we're relatively consistent when it 1172 01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:33,640 comes to World Championships. Yeah, and then because the likes 1173 01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:37,520 of South Africa earlier in the day didn't even they didn't 1174 01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,040 make, they didn't make it dramatic. 1175 01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:42,280 Who else was another Great Britain? 1176 01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:43,520 Britain didn't. Make it. 1177 01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,640 Yeah, I think those were, those are the core 2O and Jamaica also 1178 01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,280 of course didn't make it that that's that's the other one. 1179 01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,320 So. It was boding really well for 1180 01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,560 the United States to be able to take this one it. 1181 01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,800 Was playing well. But also it was going to be USA 1182 01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,520 versus Canada. Yeah, and turned out to be. 1183 01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:05,320 It did Coleman to Kenny to Courtney Lindsay to Noah and 1184 01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,080 then it was Aaron Brown to Jerome Blake to Brendan Rodney 1185 01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:13,440 to Andre Degrasse. And even after, you know, Kenny, 1186 01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,960 well, if Jerome Blake split faster than than Kenny did on 1187 01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:21,520 the on the second leg. And then from there, Courtney 1188 01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:25,160 Lindsay kind of got the US out in front to hand off to Noah 1189 01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,400 Lyles. And Noah had to work a bit to, 1190 01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,160 you know, just make sure to stave off Andre De Grasse. 1191 01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:32,320 Yeah. Andre De Grasse was closing. 1192 01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,480 Was was closing. Hard he was closing I I asked I 1193 01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:39,280 was like for a second I so I spoke with them afterwards and I 1194 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,720 and I asked Noah, I'm like, you know, you held off you know 1195 01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:43,960 Canada or like Canada was super close to you and he's like. 1196 01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:45,840 I heard this because I was standing by the mixer and I 1197 01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:47,560 thought. Yeah, and he was like, really? 1198 01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:48,840 And I, I was confused for a second. 1199 01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,640 Like, I know I just watched the race, but you know, they're he's 1200 01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,120 playing games, which is which is great, right, like. 1201 01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,080 You know well, so OK. Well, maybe he's not. 1202 01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,680 People are going to be pretty like the the crowd, the mob 1203 01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,120 online, all that stuff which likes to pile on to Noah Lyles 1204 01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:06,600 whenever they can. They're going to take that clip 1205 01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,000 and they're going to run with it. 1206 01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,640 But like, I think this was an instance where you can, if you 1207 01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:15,680 watch that after he says it, there's like an extra 5 seconds 1208 01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:19,560 later where he does say just sort of like, no serious, OK, I 1209 01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,720 didn't see it. Like I, I didn't. 1210 01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:27,200 And it's like, yeah, I think maybe Canadian media will clip 1211 01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,720 just that one part and then like, run with it. 1212 01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,640 That's fair, but I do. Generally think like Noah was 1213 01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:34,200 unaware of what happened there toward the. 1214 01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,840 End that that's fair and it was it was raining he was locked in 1215 01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:42,920 and like he also probably maybe understood like I have to make 1216 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:46,080 sure I execute this right. Maybe he did he probably was 1217 01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:49,040 watching the the race before and maybe he didn't see Canada right 1218 01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,600 there, but he maybe saw OK it may be close. 1219 01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,280 Let me make sure I'm just locked in and focused to make sure I 1220 01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,240 can secure this gold medal. So, yeah, I mean, but them 1221 01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:02,080 getting defending their gold medals from 2023, I, this was a 1222 01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:03,720 really, really strong performance. 1223 01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:07,040 Noah, you know, goes home with three medals, you know, bronze 1224 01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,480 in the 100, gold in the 2, gold in the 4 by 1. 1225 01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,600 Kenny gets 2 medals as well. This is his first four by one 1226 01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:14,720 medal. And we remember last year at the 1227 01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:18,560 Olympics, Christian Coleman to Kenny B was really, really bad. 1228 01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,840 They secure it now. So, and, and then Courtney 1229 01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:23,359 Lindsay, he actually gets a medal now as well. 1230 01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:26,200 He was in both the 100 and the 200 wasn't able to get anything, 1231 01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,880 but he goes home with the medal. And same with Christian Coleman. 1232 01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:32,399 You know, I, I think Christian Coleman is one of the greatest 1233 01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:35,600 starters in history, maybe even, maybe even the best. 1234 01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,359 So he's a solid, you know, he's been solid. 1235 01:08:38,359 --> 01:08:40,520 So yeah, this was big for the United States. 1236 01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:43,960 It's always really cool too when they celebrate together, you 1237 01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,640 know, after that. So it's like we had the women's 1238 01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,720 4 by 1 squad and the men's 4 by 1 squad. 1239 01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:49,600 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1240 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:51,680 Taking photos and and hugging on the track. 1241 01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:58,319 It was if if you were keen to all of the drama off the track 1242 01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:00,520 that had been taking place in the last like 2 months. 1243 01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:08,720 So I did see Noah DAP up Kenny. So you're like OK, they're good. 1244 01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,600 And then I saw Shakari hug Christian and I was like there 1245 01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:13,279 we go. I. 1246 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:15,399 Was like I. Was like, this is crazy. 1247 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:20,000 This is the big happy ending that we wanted to to all of the 1248 01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,439 drama. This is this is crazy. 1249 01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:28,359 And, and also like this is a big success for the USA Relays in 1250 01:09:28,359 --> 01:09:31,880 terms of them getting a new coach at the top of the year. 1251 01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:36,200 And they come away with, you know what, 3 gold medals and 1252 01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:39,600 then one silver in the across the four by four and the four by 1253 01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,720 one. I mean, I know that was on my 1254 01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,359 mind of like, OK, especially the women. 1255 01:09:44,359 --> 01:09:48,200 You, you know, Michelle Louis Freeman, she won 3 gold medals 1256 01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,640 for the United States. You know, she's no longer at 1257 01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:52,680 USATF. They bring in a new coach. 1258 01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,400 What is actually going to happen at the at this first world 1259 01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,920 championship since then? And yes, they deliver. 1260 01:09:58,000 --> 01:09:59,400 They delivered. Yeah. 1261 01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,080 My only thought is like with coaching the woman's 4 by 1, it 1262 01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:04,680 just it feels like it's a team practice. 1263 01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,080 Because that's true. There's like, yeah. 1264 01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,640 But also just, yeah, I mean, this is it's a good sign of 1265 01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:14,000 things overall in general. And I guess like a couple other 1266 01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:17,320 events that were handed out just really quick in the men's 1267 01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:21,040 decathlon, like Leo Neuega Bauer ends up winning. 1268 01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,640 He left it all out there, you know, and the final event was 1269 01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:25,960 the the 1500. I think it was like a four 1270 01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:31,720 second PB where he ran 431 and he actually got taken. 1271 01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,120 Like, yes, there's a lot of photos of him celebrating with 1272 01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:37,320 his flag. He did his in stadium interview 1273 01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:40,800 laying on the ground and then he was actually taken off the track 1274 01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:43,040 in in a in a wheelchair. Really. 1275 01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:45,920 Yeah, just because, like, you know, just emptied the tank in 1276 01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,560 that event. And so good for him. 1277 01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:51,920 Gold medal came. It came down to that final, 1278 01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,840 final event between him and Kyle Garland. 1279 01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,320 Shout out to Kyle for for getting on that at the podium. 1280 01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:01,440 Yes. And then I was just looking to 1281 01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:04,000 see I was like, did the discus end up happening? 1282 01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:07,840 And I think it's it's it's over. Daniel Stahl ends up with they 1283 01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,480 cruise through that competition gold medal. 1284 01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:18,440 Mikola Selecna gets a silver and Alex Rose is this from Samoa 1285 01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:20,200 ends up with the with the bronze medal. 1286 01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:22,720 Paul Hoff Mahoney's at the stadium. 1287 01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:27,240 I'm sure right now gathering those interviews and also so 1288 01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,600 keep an eye out on Paul's channel, the Polythros and also 1289 01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:34,240 the Polythros show for a full recap of this. 1290 01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:37,520 Because I just remember seeing I was sitting next to him actually 1291 01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:41,240 as the delay this thing got weather delayed the whole and 1292 01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:43,400 postponed for a bit. And he's like, so you're telling 1293 01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:47,840 me like, old stadium is going to be just watching the discus? 1294 01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:50,320 And I was like, yeah, they're already starting the closing 1295 01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:52,280 ceremony while the discus is happening. 1296 01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,160 So I don't know how many people are actually going to stay 1297 01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,640 through the whole thing. But I was like, it it it felt a 1298 01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,480 little weird. Usually, you want the final 1299 01:11:59,480 --> 01:12:01,800 event to happen. So it happened in Eugene, too, 1300 01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,080 where it's like it was out of their control. 1301 01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:06,400 And Mondo ends up, yeah, closing that with a world. 1302 01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,040 With a world record, I was going to say that was. 1303 01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:11,400 Like slipping and sliding and it looked dangerous. 1304 01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:16,280 But yeah, the discus throat was very, very interesting. 1305 01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:20,280 That was that was really awkward because I saw like all the 1306 01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,280 volunteers like lining up for the I guess to like do the 1307 01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:27,280 ceremony or. Something they handed off the 1308 01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:29,920 ceremonial baton and I think maybe like the flag. 1309 01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:33,040 Or something to. From Japan to China. 1310 01:12:33,720 --> 01:12:36,880 And I was like, well, was there a there was no Hungarian dude 1311 01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:39,560 there to be just like, but also I'm here in the meantime between 1312 01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:43,480 the two of you because there there is an ultimate champs next 1313 01:12:43,480 --> 01:12:45,800 year. But we're going to have to yeah, 1314 01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,280 we're two years away from the world champs in in China. 1315 01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:53,760 And yeah. So to kind of close it all out 1316 01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,680 in terms of just the overall feelings of of these World 1317 01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:58,400 Championships. The United States ends with a 1318 01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:02,120 record setting 16 gold medals. That's a record. 1319 01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:06,720 Wow. Topping the medal table with a 1320 01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,240 total of Give me one SEC. It's populated. 1321 01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:14,160 They're still counting 26 medals, 16 gold, 5 silver, 5 1322 01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:18,600 bronze. Kenya, with a big help from the 1323 01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:23,040 women, ends up second on the medal table with 11 total 1324 01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,640 medals, 7 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze. 1325 01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:30,280 And it's Canada in 3rd with three gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, 1326 01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:35,400 5 total there. Jamaica does have 10 medals that 1327 01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:38,480 they just did up 10th in the on the medal table because there's 1328 01:13:38,480 --> 01:13:42,920 so many silver. It was 11 gold, 6 silver, 3 1329 01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,880 bronze. Wait, how many medals did USA 1330 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:47,600 get total? 26. 1331 01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:49,000 Oh, OK, That's, that's really good. 1332 01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:50,680 I was, I was just looking at Eugene. 1333 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,280 I'm, I was so surprised at it because they got 33 there. 1334 01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:55,640 But like the fact that we surpassed gold medals from what 1335 01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:57,480 we did at home in Eugene. That's big. 1336 01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:00,920 Yeah, I guess like, yeah, I'm trying to think where were the 1337 01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,040 spots that we didn't get medals this time? 1338 01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:05,760 Around so like women's 800 within thing MO right? 1339 01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,440 You have the the men's 100 right? 1340 01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:12,200 We we got gold back then. Yeah, there's a couple. 1341 01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:14,240 There's a couple that we we missed out on. 1342 01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:18,200 But yeah, but I mean, it's really hard to hang your head on 1343 01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:20,840 26. I mean, medals 26 is still 1344 01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:25,400 crazy. All right, So before we close it 1345 01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:30,320 out, MVP, who's your MVP and what's your most memorable race 1346 01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:32,480 of this entire World Championships? 1347 01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:39,080 Oh, MVP, like I mean like Melissa Jefferson wouldn't I 1348 01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:43,840 think make it a great case to be MVP, but also like Sydney 1349 01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:47,760 McLaughlin, Lovrone, I think it's it's kind of a toss up 1350 01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,760 between those two for me as far as MVP goes. 1351 01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:54,840 Favorite race? Sydney's 400 was something 1352 01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:58,440 pretty special. I thought that was really, that 1353 01:14:58,440 --> 01:15:01,280 was just a cool, cool moment to to see live. 1354 01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:07,200 And I mean, Cole Hawker's 5K today was, was also up there. 1355 01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:11,600 And so I think those two, those two were my favorite kind of 1356 01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,640 races of of this championships. Yeah, you actually, you actually 1357 01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,600 stole what I was going to say. Yeah, I, I, I actually thought 1358 01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:22,240 of Sydney's 400 and Kohl's 5K today, which were insane, 1359 01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:25,920 insane. But yeah, I, I think for me, I 1360 01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:30,880 think Melissa gets the edge over Sydney only because it's like, 1361 01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:34,720 obviously she got 3 gold medals. And this was like, it's almost 1362 01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:38,880 like people knew Sydney was like a dominant athlete and she 1363 01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:42,320 further proved it today. But like Melissa, I think people 1364 01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:45,640 were like, obviously, yes, gold medal favorite in the 100, stuff 1365 01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,160 like that. But she really asserted her 1366 01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:52,520 dominance as like, no, I'm here like this is this is me. 1367 01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,120 This is the 100, the 200, the four by one. 1368 01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:58,080 I own this right now so. Yeah, I mean, first, first 1369 01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:03,040 American woman to get titles in the 100 and 200 out of world 1370 01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:05,480 championship. Yeah, it's hard to give it to 1371 01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:08,160 the MVP award to anyone but that but her. 1372 01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:12,200 It's big. I think I'm going to go MVP, 1373 01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,920 yeah. It's so hard between Sydney and 1374 01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:21,640 Melissa Jefferson. Wouldn't I'm going to go with, I 1375 01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:26,840 think I'll go Sid just because like that 400 was. 1376 01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:29,360 Insane. It was electric, but my favorite 1377 01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:32,040 performance is George Beamish winning the men. 1378 01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:38,000 'S that was 3. Cases just it had shock, it had 1379 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:42,880 drama and it also just sort of like from a personal level, it's 1380 01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,240 like we're friends with with the guy too. 1381 01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:48,080 So that was really cool to see. Was there Poles too? 1382 01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:49,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to say, was there 1383 01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:53,640 any like underdog performance of like, oh, like, wow, like this 1384 01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:55,760 person, really. Isaac Nader I think was a. 1385 01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,080 Isaac Nader, I mean Beamish is a, is a good, good one to fill 1386 01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,480 that category. Oh my God. 1387 01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:06,160 I mean Jimmy Gresier in the in the men's 10,000 meters. 1388 01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:10,880 Also like most surprising moment, I think it's Isaac 1389 01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:12,520 Nader. I think it's for me, it's 1390 01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:14,920 probably Jimmy Grassier winning the 10K for me. 1391 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,440 That's big. That's big. 1392 01:17:18,440 --> 01:17:20,560 I was. Trying to think if there was 1393 01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:25,560 anything else that yeah, no, I think that that was it. 1394 01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,960 No. All right, well, that does it 1395 01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:35,680 for CS Mag live from the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo. 1396 01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:39,760 Many thanks to ASICS for supporting all of our wall to 1397 01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:44,080 wall coverage, from interviews to podcasts and newsletters. 1398 01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:46,360 They did it all. And actually like I'll read a 1399 01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,520 quick review that someone left on Apple podcast. 1400 01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,080 It's the easiest way for you guys to show your support for 1401 01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,640 us. 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