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Good evening everyone. 

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This is Preet Majithia here in 
Torren, Poland, just after the 

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conclusion of day one of the 
World Athletics Indoor 

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Championships 2026. 
It's a bit of a star today 

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today, but I thought we'd do a 
quick roundup of most 

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interesting results from the 
day. 

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There were a few finals as well,
so we can dive into those in a 

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little more detail. 
But if we start with a morning 

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session, which was a lot of 
heats, so men 60 meters, all the

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main contenders got through nice
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Shane Thompson, Brian Lavelle, 
Kim Blake, 3 Jamaicans. 

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The two Americans Jordan 
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Jeremiah Azzu all kind of ran 
well in their heats and and and 

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made it comfortably through 
women's 400 meter heats. 

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Again, the main Europeans all 
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However, we did lose Rosie 
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qualifier out because there were
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must admit there are unnecessary
amounts of seven heats with four

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athletes in each heat. 
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unnecessary and pretty long, but
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We got through it and the same 
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400 meters, most impressive 
there to be honest, Christopher 

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Morales, Williams with A455 top 
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But you know the likes of Chris 
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through in that morning session.
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the probably the toughest 
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events because you're running 
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You then run the semi final 
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the final is then day 2 in the 
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So tomorrow evening and we then 
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have some of these athletes who 
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which is tomorrow morning before
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And you then have two rounds of 
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day three. 
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see running 64 hundreds in three
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round up the semi finals of 400 
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So here on the women's side we 
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Platolova as ADNS but 
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final rounds of of of four 
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the heat winners in each case 
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thereafter. 
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Bailey Lear of Team USA first 
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But again the remaining sort of 
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Lourdes Manuel of Czech Republic
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Lika Klava and Talia Bakriyechka
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in the semis. 
And we had Waddelin Venlo or 

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formerly Waddelin Jonathas and 
formerly of the USA now of Haiti

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also sneaking through as the 
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But we will have this two 
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have to see how that pans out. 
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had also Christopher Morales, 
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standings in the semis, as he 
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McRae and Chris Robinson looking
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heat. 
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heat of Caleb with Dream 
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So Dream Richards, Caleb Mccrae,
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together at Pure Athletics with 
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coached by Lance Brown and down 
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So that training group is having
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They've got three guys in the 
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Jarim also squeaked through as a
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He was saying he was a little 
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hadn't raced as much as the 
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But he has made it through to 
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And I think Hungary's Attila 
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think is most definitely a 
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He's been looking really good 
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So all those guys through to the
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That's four hundreds. 
Let's go to the 800 meters. 

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Now. 
We again had the heats of both 

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the men's and the women's, eight
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There were three rounds, day 
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So first first round. 
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up two, Eliza Coro and Audrey 
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But to be honest again all the 
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through. 
Keely Hodgkinson with a 

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controlled win in her heat, 
Addie Wiley from the US as well,

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and Izzy Buffy, who was sort of 
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needing a time qualifier to 
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But there was a bit of drama 
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Valerie Tobias came second in 
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unfortunately on the second bend
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lane 5 and she stepped on all 
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couple of times and that led to 
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unfortunately and missing out on
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So that was a little bit of 
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Also worth noting, the two 
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Gedditch, NCAA 800 meter 
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did not make it through. 
Gladys was was telling us in the

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mix, knowing that he has a 
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had to go to Washington to get 
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happen the same day and she was 
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So she had to cancel the flight,
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So obviously not in the place to
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Unfortunately for her, Keely 
Hodgkinson's luggage didn't turn

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up as well. 
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fortunate, but it did make it 
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And she was saying that she 
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they're horrible. 
So go check out the interviews 

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on the CS Mag YouTube channel. 
Haley Kitchen is also worth a 

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mention. 
She obviously fell in the heats 

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of the NCAA's last week and this
felt like a bit of redemption 

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for her. 
She makes it through comfortably

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into the semi finals and was was
looking really good. 

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And then if we talk about the 
men's eight hundreds, again, you

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know, big players, Elliot 
Krestan, Mohammed Atawi looking 

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good cruise through a TOWIE. 
They they were both in the same 

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heat as it happened. 
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back and effectively just with 
about 200 to go, started to move

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up. 
And that was deliberate strategy

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with him and his coach, he said 
afterwards. 

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But that that was quite 
interesting to it was quite, it 

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felt like quite a dangerous 
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He he makes it through 
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Peter Bowl of Australia and 
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Prostate track club. 
He makes it through as well. 

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First indoor race in seven 
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Noah Kibet, interestingly, who 
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medallist in 2022 from Kenya at 
the age of 18 and we haven't 

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really seen much from him since.
He obviously went for a little 

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while to train over in the 
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know, athletics club didn't 
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He he I think he subsequently 
went back to Kenya, but he was 

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actually looking really good. 
One is heat. 

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Interestingly, there was second 
Peter Bowl in in his heat. 

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Alan Tsitsunami Clay, who is 
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from Penn State, so he was in 
NCAA's last week, made the final

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I believe, but is here running 
while indoors and has made it 

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through the semi finals. 
Sean Dolan made it through as a 

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time qualifier, ran really well,
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And yeah, he, you know, I think 
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race for him is like a final. 
He's just got to give it his all

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in, in every single round. 
Cooper Lukinhaus, obviously the 

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main man looked very controlled,
very comfortable, came through 

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his heat, 2nd place, but but all
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So yeah, that was the men's 800.
We didn't really lose any 

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particularly big names. 
Maybe we we lost, I don't know. 

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Well, Handle Robin made it 
through as well, just about as a

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time qualifier, as did Navasky 
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So, yeah. 
But we did have one final in 

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that morning session and that 
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was a really great competition. 
Four women cleared 199 first 

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time, so it was looking at a 
really good competition. 

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Unfortunately, only Yaroslava 
Mehuchik was able to clear the 

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next type, which is 2 O one. 
And then the remaining three 

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women, Angelina Topitch, Nikola 
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shared the podium. 
There's interviews up on the 

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CSMA YouTube channel with all 
four of them. 

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Really great interviews actually
with all of them. 

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Yulia Levchenko won her last 
global medal in 2017, getting 

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silver in in London and nine 
years for her to return to that 

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global podium. 
So that that's a great story. 

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Obviously top pitch backing up 
her bronze medal from Tokyo with

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a silver medal here. 
And yeah, Nicholas Orlas Log is 

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always, always happy. 
So yeah, that was that was 

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great. 
And then let's move into the 

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evening session. 
We had the women's shop at 

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final, first event of the night.
It sounded like the women were 

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feeling a bit flat, 
unfortunately, because the 

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audience wasn't there. 
Chase Jackson takes the honours 

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20.14. 
I think everyone was expecting 

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the final to need 20 meters to 
medal and unfortunately it 

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wasn't quite there for everyone 
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So Sarah Mitten takes over in 
1978. 

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But what was really cool was 
actually in a Johansson 1975 

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Swedish national record. 
She is the NCAA champion. 

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Just last week she was so happy,
really surprised that she got a 

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medal. 
But but that's an amazing story 

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and I'm really gutted. 
My bad, I had an amazing 

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interview with her and cunningly
failed to press record, so sadly

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you won't find that interview on
the CSI YouTube channel. 

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But let's talk the 1500m heats. 
We've then got first heat of the

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women's 1500 meters. 
Agatha Guillermo looked really 

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impressive leading that heat 
out, making a really hard move 

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and and and really putting a 
stamp on that one. 

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It's a 416 race. 
They were really jogging. 

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Nikki Hilts takes seconds and 
comfortably qualifies Heat 2. 

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Burke Highland 410 for the win 
and Claudia Kasmeska, the crowd 

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was going wild because she's 
from Poland and obviously trains

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under Jerry Schumacher with 
Swoosh TC in Eugene. 

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Really impressive run from her. 
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gear in her just from the home 
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And Susan Jory Sanders third in 
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and Lucia Stafford just missing 
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heats were only three to qualify
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time qualifiers. 
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heat of death I felt going in 
George Antebelle, Jess Hull, 

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Marta Zanoni, Salome Alfonso and
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a building. 
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Antebell and Jess Hull looking 
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particular knows it at the right
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through. 
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suppose Nathan Green makes it 
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heat. 
Adam Spencer now training with 

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Thomas Levandowski and alongside
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Nielsen, Timothy Chariot. 
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move. 
He was like, this is the best 15

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nanometre group in the world. 
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go and train. 
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impressive. 
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heat, Second heat was won by 
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been having a bit of a breakout.
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They were, they were sort of 
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out was he is now self coached. 
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with Thomas Levandowski but 
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we see Thomas Lewandowski I 
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athletes. 
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ASICS. 
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meant that they couldn't 
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so he is now self coached and I 
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Selomia Fonso. 
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out by .12 of a second in that 
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unfortunately no time qualifiers
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through. 
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Mariano Garcia who is the 2022 
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now seems to be running a lot 
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heat comfortably. 
Samuel Chappell who is the 

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European Indoor 800 meter 
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the 1500 here and and qualifies.
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here was Tituan Legree of France
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from Wingate College in 
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I think he's now graduated but 
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pro group there and this guy 
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the field. 
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and that that again. 
There's an interview with him up

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on the city's mag YouTube 
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Go check it out. 
Really great. 

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Festus Lagat was in this heat, 
obviously having overturned that

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provisional suspension that he 
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Anti Doping Agency of Kenya and 
he did not make it through 

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unfortunately. 
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So Trayvon Brummel runs a world 
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647 and then Jordan Anthony runs
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Jeremiah Azu who runs 6:45. 
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phenomenal final with Brian 
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as well. 
And really unfortunate for Akeem

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Blake that in the first semi 
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between second and third down to
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which then meant that they were 
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Blake, who'd run a little bit 
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heat, would have been the second
time qualifier, but there wasn't

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a second time qualifier anymore.
So that feels a bit sad and 

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unfortunate for him. 
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And we moved on to the final 
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impressive light show. 
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little photo of some of the sort
of rehearsals they were doing, 

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but massively impressive 
darkened stadium, some really 

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great graphics and and lighting 
effects, really creating the 

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vibe in the stadium. 
And we got a final that lived up

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to expectations. 
Jordan Anthony takes the win, 

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641 world lead. 
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final because Shane Thompson and
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one, one thousandth of a second,
6.447 to 6.448 seconds, really 

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close on the line and Jeremiah 
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them. 
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line together, the three of 
them, and Azure is the one that 

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missed out on the medal. 
But I would urge you to go check

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out the interview with Jordan 
Anthony on YouTube. 

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It's 8 minutes of pure gold. 
He is an absolute quote machine.

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He had a wild situation 
yesterday with a doping control 

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officer trying to take a blood 
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days ago when he arrived missing
his vein, causing a massive kind

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of inflated clot in his arm. 
His arm was completely strapped 

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up, absolutely wild. 
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know, he talked a lot about a 
lot of things and, and 

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absolutely brilliant, brilliant 
interview with him. 

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So yeah, as I say, I urge you to
go check it out on Citysmag 

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YouTube channel. 
But yeah, that was day one. 

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We also had day one of the 
heptathlon, but we will round 

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that up in more detail tomorrow 
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So yeah, lots to look forward 
to. 

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And just so you know what's 
coming tomorrow we'll have the 

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men's 60 meter hurdles. 
That's three rounds there, 

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morning round one and then semis
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Women's 60 meters same as well. 
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semis and final in the evening. 
We'll then have the mixed 4 by 4

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final in the morning and the 
men's high jump the mine in the 

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morning along with the 800 semi 
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We'll also then in the evening. 
Probably one of the the best 

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events of the Champs. 
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men's pole vault. 
All the big guns are there. 

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Mondo, Manuel, Corrales, 
etcetera promises to be a great 

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showdown. 
We'll get the 400 meter 

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individual finals and we'll also
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tomorrow evening. 
Obviously go check out our 

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preview if you want more detail 
on those. 

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But the men's 3000 in particular
are looking like an incredible 

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race. 
So yeah, lots to look forward to

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tomorrow and and yeah, I'll, 
I'll hopefully be back tomorrow 

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with another little Padlet to 
round up the day's action. 

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