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Kombawa and welcome to Sidious 
Mag live from Tokyo. 

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It is day eight of the World 
Athletics Championships. 

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Chris Chavez alongside Eric 
Jenkins and Mitch Dyer here to 

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break down all of the action 
that took place today. 

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National Stadium got a couple 
distance finals, and then 

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finally we're reaching the peak 
of the relay action, which is 

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not without some controversy. 
We'll get into all of that and 

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more on today's show. 
But first, quick shout out to 

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ASICS for being the presenting 
sponsor of all of CS Max 

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coverage of the World 
Championships. 

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We could not be more thankful 
for all of their support. 

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And today they actually added 
another medalist, actually 2. 

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We'll, we'll talk a little bit 
more about the brilliant race by

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Nadia Banacletti. 
And also just like the strong 

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performance over 2 days by Talia
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Fun fact about Talia Brooks is 
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experience to through. 
No, it's actually like 4 days 

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ago. 
I think it's long time ago at 

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this point. 
We went to the sumo place. 

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It was an exhibition, and they 
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crowd. 
Peyton Otterdall was there right

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after, you know, competing in 
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And the sumo guys knew they had 
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But even before that, Talia 
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athletes in attendance. 
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She didn't realize like, oh, I 
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wrestle with one of the sumo 
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She just went in, took one step 
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immediately like bowed out of 
the whole entire thing and it 

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paid off because like she didn't
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away with it with a bronze 
battle today. 

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Dalia's a electric personality 
when it comes to the multi 

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events. 
And so the a six family is super

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proud of her and so are we. 
And we'll dissect more of all 

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that as we chat through the rest
of tonight's action. 

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But I want to get started with 
some of the distance finals that

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capped this evening. 
And the first one is the women's

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5000 meter final, which is one 
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to. 
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between a mix of just sort of 
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You have the 1500 meter world 
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champion in faith Capiagon Then 
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10K champion in Beatrice Tibet. 
2 of them who have like raced 

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1500 meters this year, 3000 
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time performances and but at the
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each other head to head. 
This time they do get to go to 

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head to head and in in a way I 
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go like in entirely chalk, but 
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that we ended up with were 
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So I think what it was Shelby 
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up towards the front of the race
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with about I would say 800 
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started to move. 
Shelby still toward the front. 

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Goudolf's a guy, your athlete 
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you know what, you know, I might
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that for basically as as as long
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kick. 
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because Shelby Bataclidi, 
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well. 
Cover that move. 

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And then it was just a matter of
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But before we saw that, like, 
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person who's been closing every 
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meters has been absolutely 
lethal, pulls the same exact 

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move. 
Move on Faith Kipiagon. 

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He Thrones the reigning champion
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performance for Chibet. 
It was a 1454 race. 

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So slow. 
It's very, very, very, very much

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slow. 
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And then Kabigon ends up second.
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Houlihan in fourth. 
Good, good OPS. 

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The guy in fifth, big UPS. 
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in 6th, who was up towards the 
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The four six showing by Team USA
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the United States, but that's 
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to a super tactical race and 
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So not a totally shocking 
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as we thought it would be, which
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the crescendo to this this race 
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than than expected. 
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very good one. 
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Yeah, I think though, it was 
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when you've got Faith charging 
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inherently you're going to 
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the 1500 meter strength, given 
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incredibly real over the 5K 
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But it was, yeah, phenomenal 
receive Beatrice just come 

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motoring over the top and it 
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her on the line or with 10 
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to really work hard until the 
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She moved past her into the 
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with about, I'm going to say 40 
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sewn up, which is just ultra 
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And you're right, it is how we 
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And I always thought it was 
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To be fair, I didn't expect it. 
Maybe I well, I don't know. 

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I just feel like the way it's. 
This slow? 

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Well, I was going to say I 
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slow, but I thought it would be 
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these championships have been 
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anybody go out and try and, you 
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go so unbelievably quick that 
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But I mean, shout out to Shelby 
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what they did differently, it 
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finals is that they put 
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kind of controlled the tempo. 
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they just figured well, I may as
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And naturally the squeeze came 
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separated everybody. 
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They did a great job to hold on 
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were there were some bodies 
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I think at least I mean, you're 
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was going to be a little bit 
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But I think a lot of us, myself 
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that because of the weather 
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significant amount of of degrees
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race is already naturally being 
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men's race. 
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little bit quicker, especially 
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as 1445 in that first prelim 
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was something like 1450. 
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that was slower than both 
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temperature and the athletes 
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And like I said, that this is 
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talented fields that we've ever 
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across all of all of the the 
events like this is certainly 

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one of the most decorated 
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And so I think that we all 
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little bit like except for 
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had an over under on time 
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big here, which I think made it 
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We saw Shelby up front. 
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the top four there for, you 
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before 400, yeah, yeah, but 
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But like you're, you're sort of 
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going to go out a mile or Faith 
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And then like still nothing 
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It was still Shelby up front 
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it wasn't even really a squeeze.
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marginal squeeze there, but but 
a clearly ends up taking like 

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the the hard move and is the 
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cards just before 400 meters. 
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race play out. 
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we're necessarily shocked at 
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but I think a fantastic showing 
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and Josette, both the 4th and 
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And, you know, I think when we 
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last month, it seems like that, 
you know, we were saying like, 

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OK, top, top 8 would be great 
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So to see that, especially in 
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talented as this I think is, is 
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American women. 
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absolutely delivered. 
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still great. 
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this one? 
I am surprised to see it be this

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slow. 
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the conditions be a little bit 
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Yeah, We'd heard rumblings that 
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were doubling back from the 15 
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We'd presented just sort of the 
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like, let's have a slow one. 
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it off. 
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like Faith is like, yeah, we're 
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slow one. 
It's like you could have slow 

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ones, but I'm just surprised to 
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Goudolf, who was never really 
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much and faith. 
They kind of just like let the 

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race was slow for so long. 
I was just surprised to see it 

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lag for this long. 
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it. 
Like when was the last time you 

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see like to see Faith, Kippy, 
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That's really the only 
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entire race. 
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Beatrice is is a world record 
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So it's like if you're if Faith 
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It's an all timer. 
It's an all timer, but it's just

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so interesting that it's just 
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seeing Faith Kippy, Aegon lose a
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the race lag and lag and lag and
it says just never, ever picks 

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up. 
This is like a this is like one 

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of these men sit, sit and kick 
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right. 
The women's race usually of this

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caliber never really happens 
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So it was, it was definitely 
just surprising, but that's kind

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of like this, this championship 
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Nothing but full of. 
Surprises. 

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And so it's like you can 
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happen is not going to happen. 
So in that sense, it's it's kind

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of expected. 
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that this, this 5K race, Faith 
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good off the guide. 
This is like the race where it's

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going to be, especially because 
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It's the the temperature, 
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it's going to drop. 
It's going to be very fast. 

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And then of course, it doesn't 
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very fun. 
I love it. 

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And it's, it's, it's good to see
it like that. 

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I, I think it's an incredible 
testament to the, the medal 

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winners here of, of their 
abilities to run both fast and 

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slow. 
Yes, yeah, yeah. 

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I, I think in, in a lot of 
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decades. 1430 race, right? 
Exactly what I was, yeah. 

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And that to your point, Chris, 
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Kabyagon have PBS that are damn 
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they ran today. 
And for them to, to for both of 

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them and Botta Claudia come out 
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minute slower than their 
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I think is it it? 
It's just really impressive to 

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see because I think normally you
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we're looking at like the men's 
10K and it's like who? 

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Like what, what are we watching 
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Like we totally that that's just
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But like not in the women's 
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It's just like, like the stars 
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you, showed up to date, 
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Except for one like and this is 
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the whole entire one for me as 
I'm like looking at these 

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results right here is Agnes and 
Getich, who was like in the pack

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for a good portion of this race.
Towards the front, a lot of it. 

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Yeah, but then like when you've 
run 1401 and all she's done all 

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season with great success has 
been just push it from the front

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and and just step on the gas and
you'll still land among like the

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top. 
If you're not winning, you'll 

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still land among the top three. 
Why she didn't choose to do 

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that? 
She's she ends up 15th place in 

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1513. 
Yeah, but like look at the look 

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at the top. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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Like, do you see you're not 
going to push it with athletes 

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like Faith. 
Yeah, Gonna and Beatrice. 

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You bet. 
I think honestly, the like the 

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athlete of the distance events 
for the whole mate is Badacleti.

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Yeah, I'm through with two 
medals, right, 2. 

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One's your bet too, yeah? 
Yeah, I agree. 

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Yeah, I mean, like I'm not 
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Yeah, OK. 
Like to, for, have to for 

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Badacleti to come through with 
two medals in the five and the 

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10. 
That's the, I think the 

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performance, that's I don't want
to say this, the like the 

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surprise like. 
For metal last. 

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Year yeah, metal last year, but 
I just like you look at the the 

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talent of this event and because
we're talking about like in 

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Geddicks and we're talking about
all these athletes, but it's 

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like Badakhladi she had a huge 
medal in the 10K comes back 

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medals in the 5K, which is 
arguably I think the more 

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impressive given that it's with 
Kapiagon and Kibet and she had 

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to be out in Kaddish and all 
these and Sagai all these 

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athletes. 
I think that is more impressive 

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than than the other because 
everybody else is kind of 

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expected, expected, but it's 
like it's it, I think that. 

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It is too good. 
It is. 

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It is actually is. 
Expected. 

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Yeah, it is. 
Yeah, as it should be. 

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Which as it should be. 
It's also like kind of like the 

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toughest part of this sport 
where it's like you do what 

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you're expected to do and it's 
still incredibly hard or you 

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just like show out and and you 
and you deliver. 

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But it means it's like it's like
we were talking with white men 

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with white when when Jake went 
and white men was talking about 

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yesterday. 
It's like, Oh, you either like 

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do what you're expected to do 
and it's a huge relief or you 

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just fail everybody and it 
sucks. 

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And it's like that's, that's 
actually like it sucks, but 

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it's. 
The reality of the situation. 

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Yeah, I was going to say like 
into this too, like the NBA 

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Finals or something like that, 
like the NBA playoffs. 

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And it's like Steph Curry is 
expected to go what, like 32, 

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8:00 and 8:00 or something like 
that. 

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But you have a role player that 
shows up one game and ends up 

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having 35 points or is hot from 
three. 

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And it's like, oh, that's a 
highlight. 

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That's it. 
That's in the press. 

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That's it. 
That's the headliners for what's

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getting run around the the media
circuit. 

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And it's not necessarily like, 
oh, Steph Curry did a bad job. 

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He did his work, he did his job.
He did what was expected, but 

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there was someone else that 
that's over performed what their

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expectations were. 
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And and Eric, to your to your 
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Like and yeah, it's unfortunate 
about the sport where it's like,

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yeah, maybe we're not excited 
about somebody winning gold that

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maybe that was the favorite. 
But like it, It is a good story.

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Yeah, it is a good story. 
I think it's a it's an 

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interesting one because I'm 
surprised everyone wasn't as 

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shocked. 
I didn't, again, I didn't think 

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it would go this slow. 
But when a race goes out like 

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this and you've got Beatrice 
Chabet, who is every day of the 

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week going to back her kick, and
you got Faith Kip Yegan, who has

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one of the best kicks in the 
world and the race goes out 

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slow. 
There would be absolutely no 

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sense for either of them to then
think like, oh, I got to start 

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pushing equally for those women.
Then when it slows up, they're 

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like, well, even if I try and 
put my foot on gas right now and

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stretch it out, they're going to
go with me. 

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They're probably going to out 
kick me anyway. 

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So you kind of in this weird 
catch 22 where it's like, well, 

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I may as well sit here. 
Maybe the heat gets them, maybe 

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the squeeze comes, maybe it 
doesn't. 

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Let's just see what happens. 
And I suppose for Sergey and the

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get, it's like there's so much 
conversation particularly good 

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off where it's like, why don't 
you just sit? 

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Why don't you just try sitting 
and see what happens? 

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And like, well, she did. 
She's tried twice now to sit and

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see what happens. 
And again, let's say 

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hypothetically one of them went 
out guns blazing, right? 

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Let's say the get it just went 
out and said, all right, catch 

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me if you can. 
Not a lot of people went with 

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her. 
She gets reeled in, she comes 

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14th, and then everyone's like, 
why wouldn't you just sit and 

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wait and see what happens? 
Maybe you could have come first.

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So there's always like the what 
if, like hindsight's 2020, every

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time, you can always see that it
would have went wind up better. 

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But to your point, when you've 
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particularly these two women in 
the race, there is not a hell of

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a lot you can do to change the 
result. 

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Yeah, I mean, you're playing 
against women that have pocket 

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aces. 
Like it's like, what, what do 

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you, how are you supposed to 
work this in your favor when it 

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you're, you're generally kind of
at a disadvantage? 

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And I, I will say like major 
problems is Shelby and Josette 

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like making the most of that 
situation. 

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And we're talking about and get 
it since the guy like not 

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pushing the pace and in like 
maybe they could have did things

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differently in the, in the last 
few meters of of kicking. 

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But I, I, I think both Shelby 
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that in terms of being 
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front. 
Shelby, similar to what we've 

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seen with, with Cole and Grant 
over the the last couple days in

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the 5K. 
Like control the pace up front. 

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Like do it, do what you can do 
up front without blowing 

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yourself up. 
It's basically what it is. 

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And give yourself the best shot 
with 400 meters to go. 

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And and I think both Shelby and 
Jose did that. 

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And I think both of them walk 
away pretty proud of that. 

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Like they're they're only like 
they're they're only 5 seconds 

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off of gold there, you know, 4 
seconds off of a metal like in 

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A5 Ki think that they've I think
that I think that they got to be

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proud of that. 
Yeah, best showing by Team USA 

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since 2013 when it was Molly 
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I think they were 6th and 7th. 
And then now today Team USA goes

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4th and 6th 6th. 
I'm I'm thinking more and more 

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about Eric's comment about just 
sort of like Nadia Botta, 

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Claudia being like one of the 
most impressive performances of 

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this championship. 
Because like, yeah, I mean, like

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if she had kind of a little bit 
of a not necessarily like 

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shortened season, but just like 
didn't race as much because 

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probably there was some some 
injuries that popped up here and

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there. 
And when she did perform, like 

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it was good. 
But it's just like she didn't 

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have a sling of like 10 races. 
She wasn't on the Diamond League

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circuit as regularly. 
And so it would lead a lot of 

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people to think it's like that 
that bought a claddy girl who, 

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you know, got a silver in the 
10K and almost got a bronze in 

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the 5K. 
Like was that a fluke? 

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Was that just like a one time 
thing? 

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And then this championships goes
on to prove that it's like, no, 

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like she's the real deal. 
She's still super young as well.

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Like she's the one athlete I 
think right now outside of East 

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Africa who has found a way to 
contend with the likes of Chibet

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and Kapiagon. 
And so it's been, it's been cool

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to see just sort of like that 
this year was the the validation

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of like, yeah, no, she's going 
to be around. 

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This is what you want to see 
Jimmy Gressier do next year or 

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in the next World champs when 
you're talking about like if you

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had to seen her last year and 
you know, we have this argument 

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a lot about like, oh, being a 
world beater and a flash in the 

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pan and all that. 
That's your. 

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That's a very valid assumption. 
What if you just a good example 

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yes, so. 
Now these athletes that are 

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coming out here this year and 
although surprising, she's a 

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she's a fantastic blueprint for 
them being like, all right, this

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is the MO that I've got to now 
follow because it's not. 

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She's an Olympic silver medalist
and there wasn't a lot of 

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conversation surrounding it to 
the point of not racing a lot, 

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but it it now opens up a good 
blueprint. 

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But in like the the the men's 
side of it isn't as stacked in 

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the top athletes as. 
Yeah, we don't have two world 

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record holders, I know. 
I agree that two of the guards. 

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There they come in against 
Beatrice Chabett and Faith Kit 

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BA gun snag a metal. 
Yeah, it's, it's just like. 

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And an Elgar Rouge being active.
Like Deborah, Selassie and 

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Elgar, Rouge and Piquet are all 
in your race. 

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Yeah. 
But Bob Cledy like coming in. 

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This is actually it's in my 
opinion because I'm not 

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surprised about Tibet beating 
Kippiega. 

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No, I'm not. 
It could have gone either way. 

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Exactly like if if Kippiega beat
Tibet, if Tibet beat like you 

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would never be surprised about 
it. 

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But Body Cledy comes away with 
two medals When And we we 

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actually should have like I 
should have. 

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We should have been talking 
about her more. 

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Yeah. 
Because yes, this is somebody 

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that meddled in Paris, but all 
the focus had been on Kippy a 

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gun and Tibet because they have 
had these world record seasons. 

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And so you kind of naturally an 
athlete like Botti Cleti slips 

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under the radar, but it's just 
because of headlines and that 

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you kind of it's, it's, it's 
kind of it's our fault that you,

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that somebody like Bodakladi 
gets 2 medals and we haven't, we

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didn't really ever talk about 
her. 

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Well, here's a. 
Good thing is that she is a A6 

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athlete and I hope, I think 
we're working on trying to get 

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some time with her tomorrow. 
I saw Ben and so we're able to 

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give a little bit more shine to 
to Batacledi right after this. 

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But no, it's it's, yeah. 
I mean, I would say like, think 

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of this past year, we saw the 
the whole breaking four thing 

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and then like in our eyes as 
fans and people that come to 

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sport, we saw that Prefontaine 
5K and it's like our eyes are 

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popping out of our head watching
that 5K. 

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And then also like face, face 
entire year or face entire like 

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last 18 months and it's. 
Like whole Amazon Prime series 

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about her, like breaking four. 
Yeah, I mean that it's. 

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Yeah. 
And so it's hard. 

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Actually, it's hard. 
To think that there's an Amazon 

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Prime series, couple episodes 
about faith breaking 4 minutes 

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in the mile, It's just like like
the sport is at a different 

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level of coverage right now, 
which is good. 

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It's great for everybody, but it
also leaves like athletes like 

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Body Claddy, where it's like, 
OK, we've been spending so much 

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time focusing on Tibet, on Faith
Kippy, a gun. 

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And then when these races are 
completely out of the blue 

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because you're, it's shocking to
see him go this slow. 

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It is. 
It is. 

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With with, with the caliber of 
athletes. 

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And I'm not saying this is a bad
race. 

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It's a great race because like I
would have thought that somebody

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what one of these athletes would
have taken it would have made it

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a bit faster. 
And to see none of them do that.

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I think it's fun. 
I think it and it makes it so 

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much more entertaining. 
It adds the wild card factor. 

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And now all of a sudden you 
you're bringing in all these 

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athletes that you wouldn't 
necessarily think have a shot at

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it. 
But yeah, exactly, like exactly 

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that. 
It's it makes it so much more 

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fun and makes it a great watch. 
Yeah. 

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And so and yeah. 
Someone in the YouTube chat 

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chimed in. 
Good off ran a pretty passive 

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race as Coach Eric pleased with 
her tactics. 

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I mean, she ends up fast, yeah. 
Look, look, obviously like I've 

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been working with good off for a
while now and I did truly think 

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that good off could have not, 
could have, but should have been

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in there for the medals I did. 
All throughout the year, the way

443
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,800
that good off's been running has
been aggressive has been. 

444
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:36,240
And like as a coach, you want 
that, right? 

445
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:41,240
Like you want an athlete that is
so you you would rather have an 

446
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,800
athlete that's too aggressive 
rather than not aggressive 

447
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,960
enough, right? 
And so as I've been coaching 

448
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:51,440
good off, it's been super fun to
see somebody who's going out in 

449
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,240
world record pace and going out 
some four mile. 

450
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,200
And my biggest thing with her 
has been trying to get her to 

451
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,040
just to rate it a bit right, 
like look, let's go out and not 

452
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,800
4 minutes, not not sub four 
mile, but like 403 would be 

453
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,760
great. 
That'd be great. 

454
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:15,240
Look at me so great. 
And she's like, and there's a 

455
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,000
language barrier. 
And you're like, Gee, we got 

456
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,840
the. 
Sense so there is a lot of stuff

457
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,680
when I'm talking to her, she's 
not understanding it. 

458
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:29,840
But this is like this this 
event, particularly with the 5K 

459
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,560
with with Kepiega and with 
Beatrice Chabet, with Goudaf 

460
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,840
Sagai and then now with Bada 
Klei. 

461
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,400
Like you're seeing so many 
athletes and now it's like is 

462
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,360
Bada Klei going to be one of 
these athletes that just sticks 

463
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:47,120
around and is now the athlete we
talk about? 

464
00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,320
Because I didn't talk and that's
on me. 

465
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,560
I didn't talk about her, but now
it's like, well, we have to talk

466
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,840
about her. 
She's incredibly talented, has 

467
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,440
meddled. 
Twice. 

468
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,960
Twice. 
Three times. 

469
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,560
I mean, she smelled twice this 
year. 

470
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,560
She smelled 3 times in the past,
in this past year. 

471
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,640
So it's like, I think it's, it's
great. 

472
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,920
It makes this event so much more
fun and the distance events are 

473
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,200
so great. 
And yeah, all of it. 

474
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,800
So yeah, all things considered, 
Chibet could be a gun. 

475
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,680
I I hope that this is a 
continued showdown for years to 

476
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,360
come. 
Like I, I hope it's not like, 

477
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,960
you know, faith only chooses to 
do the 5K after this and like 

478
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,720
has, you know, just only tasted 
silver at this point because she

479
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,960
is such a fierce competitor that
I hope that faith continues to 

480
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,200
stick to the 5K because like the
race goes a little bit 

481
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,040
differently. 
She could have beat Chabet on 

482
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,760
like today. 
I want more of these matchups. 

483
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,080
I don't want these two to 
continue like to 1 deduct the 

484
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,440
other and all that kind of 
stuff. 

485
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,560
So that's that's what I'm hoping
for. 

486
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,680
And I'm all with you, Eric on 
Bottacledy. 

487
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,120
Let's let's let's shine that 
spotlight on her a little bit 

488
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:06,000
more. 
It's it's, it's fine because 

489
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,240
like she when she ran four in 
the 1420s earlier this year at 

490
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,760
the Rome Diamond League at a 
home Diamond League, that was 

491
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,480
like a big performance for her. 
She doesn't have the that's I 

492
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,480
guess The thing is, she doesn't 
have the 14 O PR that nowadays 

493
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,080
is like, you know, gets you up 
on the all time list. 

494
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,680
It's coming. 
I I I firmly she's like she's. 

495
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,240
Just kind of like, like as of 
recently she's a championship 

496
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,480
racer. 
Like she shows up for these 

497
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,320
mates. 
Yeah, she's not doing like a 

498
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,560
tons of She's not winning 
Diamond League finals. 

499
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,000
Yeah, she's clearly not too 
obsessed with time because even 

500
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,600
the Diamond League, she ran, she
ran at home. 

501
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,600
She's clearly liking these 
bigger moments and these bigger 

502
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,760
opportunities. 
That was the crazy part, I think

503
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,800
was when I did look up was just 
like, oh, what was Pataclide? 

504
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,000
He's like PR and it's like, oh, 
she's not the European record 

505
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000
holder, but she easily could be.
And and what's hard about that 

506
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,600
is like they're OK. 
And can I get defensive here 

507
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,960
just a second? 
I'll allow it is. 

508
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,720
Is there's, there's, there's 
8000 professional athletes here.

509
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,280
And so like when we ultimately 
end up looking at a season's 

510
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,200
best descending order list, Oh 
yeah, they're like, you're 

511
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,120
looking at like former medalists
that have a, a season's best. 

512
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:18,960
That is like 30 seconds slower 
than than the the world lead. 

513
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,040
You're like, well, something's 
up this year. 

514
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:22,880
Yeah, like certainly something's
up. 

515
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,800
And like it's just it's just 
like actually literally 

516
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,720
impossible to to keep track of 
every single athlete's 

517
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,280
performances or just like health
of that year. 

518
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,120
So yeah, like something like 
Batacliti that doesn't race that

519
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,400
much outside of Italy or, or 
like is it coming over to 

520
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,040
Prefund if she came over to 
Prefontaine? 

521
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,960
Hey, hand up. 
I didn't see her because I was 

522
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,120
watching the front end of the 14
race. 

523
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,400
So yeah, it's, it's just, it's 
difficult, difficult sometimes 

524
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,760
to keep track of everyone, but 
it's it's so cool to see who the

525
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,840
championship racers are. 
And I think that that's 

526
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,520
something to, to really hold on 
to because they aren't paced 

527
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,000
Races like this is something 
that we talk about all the time.

528
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,960
Like you just know how the 
Diamond League races are going 

529
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,920
to go because they're all paced.
They have the right, they have 

530
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,720
the lights, everything's set up.
It's you know, exactly what's 

531
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:07,680
going to happen out in front of 
you. 

532
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,520
But like, you don't when you get
to these championships. 

533
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,760
And that's the coolest thing. 
I think the exact like there is 

534
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:19,120
something about like Bodakladi 
knows how to run championship 

535
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,040
races. 
Like it's like when we're 

536
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,440
talking about with with white 
men, it's this is a guy who 

537
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,840
isn't the fastest over these 
time trial races, over these 

538
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,320
races where there's European 
records and all these things, 

539
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,640
but it's a guy that just gets it
done in a championship races 

540
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,920
with medals on the line. 
It's kind of the same with like 

541
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,800
Bodakladi. 
At this point, yeah. 

542
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,400
And she's the. 
Is is an if you were to want an 

543
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,280
athlete, you would rather have 
an athlete that gets it done in 

544
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,760
a championship performance 
rather than somebody that used 

545
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,600
time trials. 
Oh yeah, so many of those. 

546
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,760
Yeah, well, A. 100% And it's 
like the like if you're if you 

547
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,320
are all these companies, right, 
you would rather have the 

548
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,920
athletes that get it done at the
championship moments and 

549
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,720
actually matters rather than the
times because the times are 

550
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,440
always going to change. 
Yeah, they all there's every 

551
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,080
single year somebody's going to 
run faster than you. 

552
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,240
Yeah, but it doesn't. 
But nobody's going to take the 

553
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,920
medal that you have got. 
This year, yeah. 

554
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,160
So it's like that's all that 
matters. 

555
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,840
And that's what's like fun to 
watch, especially with like the 

556
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,560
Jake Whiteman's and the Nadia 
Botticletti's where it's like, 

557
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,960
OK, yes, you're not as fast as 
these other the athletes we've 

558
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,560
been talking about all year, but
you've got the hardware. 

559
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,160
Yeah, that's much. 
That's so much fun to watch. 

560
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,360
Yeah, the most beautiful nuances
of track and field come from 

561
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,400
championships, right? 
Because it's it's a skill. 

562
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,560
It's a genuine skill to be able 
to pick apart rounds and prime 

563
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,440
yourself for a final, right? 
Not to your point of 8000 people

564
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,520
or whatever. 
Not everybody has the 

565
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,320
capabilities to be able to put 
themselves in a position and 

566
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,800
take home a medal. 
Only three of them are getting 

567
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,400
handed out each year for each 
event. 

568
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:12,480
So it, it, it really is an 
incredible, I suppose, piece of 

569
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,800
her legacy because that legacy 
is going to mean a lot more as a

570
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,480
three, two time world champ 
medallist, Olympic silver 

571
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:23,960
medallist than fourteen O 5 
European record holder, 5th, 6th

572
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,600
in multiple championships. 
And that was my point through 

573
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,680
the week. 
Like every athlete would trade 

574
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,520
every fast time for a global 
medal for sure. 

575
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,920
And Wightman's the perfect 
example because he's a 

576
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,800
technician of running rounds. 
He should, he should have a Ted 

577
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,840
talk on how to on how to make it
through rounds and how to look 

578
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,040
damn good doing it. 
And, and there's a handful of 

579
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,440
those types of athletes. 
Jacob BT is best is that type of

580
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,600
athlete and all that sort of 
stuff. 

581
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,840
So, yeah, Eric, great point. 
Yeah, we have to do more 

582
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,960
homework on him moving forward, 
but she's a star. 

583
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,920
Excellent signing by ASICS, I 
will say that. 

584
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,320
It's like going forward, it's 
just going to be like the 

585
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,920
athlete that bought a Clanny is 
right like from is, is this 

586
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,520
somebody that just rises to the 
occasion at the at the world 

587
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,400
champion? 
You can never doubt her any, no 

588
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,240
matter what the season's best 
sheet says. 

589
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,040
Now you see you're on the start 
line, you're like, well. 

590
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,440
Yeah, yeah, 100%. 
You see on the show line in May 

591
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,680
and you're just like, oh crap. 
It's also wild to see like, like

592
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,440
Faith, KP, a gun. 
This is an athlete that doesn't.

593
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,480
I mean, there was a whole Amazon
series about her breaking 4 and 

594
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,880
it's kind of like she had her 
hands full. 

595
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,400
She had her hands full here. 
She lost and there's so much of 

596
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,440
this thing where we have we 
build up these big stars that 

597
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,480
they can't lose. 
And now you realize that they 

598
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,760
are humans and you've seen it. 
You've seen it multiple times 

599
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,720
that especially this this World 
Championships. 

600
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,040
Like you're seeing Jakob 
struggling to even make it 

601
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:59,120
through rounds. 
And it's just like to see Faith 

602
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,880
Kip Jagon, an athlete that has 
been every single time out so 

603
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,800
far before this Championship 
Series, World record, world 

604
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,360
record, world record. 
And now it's like, OK, she came 

605
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,000
in second. 
And it's like, yes, all these 

606
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,160
athletes are just human. 
And you're seeing that time and 

607
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,520
time again. 
And I think, I think it's 

608
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,280
actually great. 
It is, I mean, there's more 

609
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,560
parity to everything and it's 
like that. 

610
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,360
There's not going to be that 
runaway star the whole entire 

611
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,200
time. 
It just like here's the thing 

612
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,440
about like inspiration behind 
breaking four and all that kind 

613
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,880
of stuff, is that like I think 
maybe even like 2 weeks after 

614
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,280
that, I was like, well, you 
know, you could have put Goudolf

615
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,560
in that race and she probably 
would have also run, you know, 

616
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,960
just as fast, potentially a 
little bit faster or just been 

617
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,960
right there. 
You could seeing how even 

618
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,680
Beatrice Tribet ran her one 1500
this year and runs 354. 

619
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,040
I'm like, yeah, she also could 
be one of those people. 

620
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,800
It's like that's the the beauty 
that we have right now in in 

621
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:07,080
women's middle distance and and 
distance is that they're they're

622
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,960
the the what is it four of the 
top six of all time we're in 

623
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,800
this race. 
And so like they'll, they'll 

624
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,040
they'll be going head to head 
for years to come. 

625
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,880
So. 
What I think is that the general

626
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,960
public loves to see somebody 
that doesn't lose. 

627
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,600
Yeah, like they, they want to 
see like a like. 

628
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,639
Yeah, back a winning horse every
time, yeah. 

629
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,920
Like the but but but the 
athletes want to see somebody 

630
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,320
that is human. 
They want to see somebody that 

631
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,600
can be beaten. 
They want to see somebody that 

632
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,440
they themselves can beat. 
Yeah. 

633
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,440
And they did beat them today. 
Yeah. 

634
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,520
Like Beatrice Chabet. 
And also, it's not Beatrice. 

635
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,760
You bet it's not just your. 
Average. 

636
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,480
Yeah, every everyday runner. 
Come out. 

637
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,760
He's a world record holder. 
So it's not quite the same 

638
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:53,360
thing. 
Yeah. 

639
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,400
But like we've talked about 
Faith Kip Yegan as like kind of 

640
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,160
this this person that cannot be 
beaten. 

641
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,160
Yeah. 
And she has been beaten. 

642
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,080
She got beaten today. 
And it's like we, we love to 

643
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,400
build up these people to be more
than they are. 

644
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,120
And they're humans and they will
lose at some point. 

645
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,560
They will lose. 
And I'd love to see that. 

646
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,400
And it's like, it's just kind of
fun. 

647
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,240
It, it's a sport, Yeah. 
And it took it took Beatrice 

648
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:24,080
Chabet, who's also kind of. 
A one of the greatest simple 

649
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,160
songs. 
Yeah, human. 

650
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:31,080
Yeah, to beat them, but I think 
this is like 1 of this is like 

651
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,920
an aspect of the sport that's 
incredibly fun. 

652
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,680
Yeah. 
All right, let's shift gears 

653
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,240
over to the men's 800, which is 
another final that took place 

654
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:41,680
tonight. 
And we had David Rudisha in the 

655
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,520
house. 
I saw that they showed him on 

656
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,520
the broadcast in the in the 
stands. 

657
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,280
It's like all year long 
everyone's been talking like 

658
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:52,720
that world record is going to go
down. 

659
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:53,960
That world record is going to go
down. 

660
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,840
And like that many of the 
diamond links that it was set 

661
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,480
up, huge fields, weather wasn't 
cooperative. 

662
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,000
Whatever it was, it's still, you
know, it's still 140.90. 

663
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,120
Ridiculous world record. 
It is insane. 

664
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:06,960
It's. 
Gonna go down. 

665
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,720
So many times they've dressed it
up. 

666
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,360
Yeah. 
So many diamond legs. 

667
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,600
It'd be like, well, this is it, 
we're gonna pay. 

668
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,520
For it. 
Yeah, we're getting here we go. 

669
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,640
Yeah, leave a seamless field. 
Why, why say that it's gonna go 

670
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,320
down like, why hype? 
Like, yeah, it's, it's almost 

671
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,600
like if Noah Lyles was to step 
on the track for the men's 200 

672
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,600
and they're saying like, like, 
ohh, it's gonna go down. 

673
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,520
It's not gonna go down. 
Yeah, that like and it's kind of

674
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,600
the similar way. 1919 is very 
hard. 1919 is very hard. 

675
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,440
It's not. 
It's not come, it's not going 

676
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,760
down. 
Yeah, in the exact same way if 

677
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,960
the men's 800 meters, it's not 
close to going. 

678
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,440
No, it's not. 
Like, yes, it would, it would 

679
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,600
make more sense if you were to 
talk about last year when they 

680
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,160
are all running in the 140 ones.
And maybe there was a shot at, 

681
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,560
at, at it going down because you
want to gather some, some eyes 

682
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,200
and to, to, to get all this 
attention on it. 

683
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,640
But it's not going down. 
Yeah. 

684
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,640
Also Big Dave in the sands, 
that's all that's you don't 

685
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,280
really see like you kind of like
see him around, but you don't 

686
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,240
see him like talk much, which. 
Yeah, we did a podcast with him 

687
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:21,120
in Budapest and that was like a 
rare one where it was like A and

688
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,720
you know, kudos to Kyle and I 
from pulling for, for pulling 

689
00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:29,800
out like his greatest workout 
ever and him being so open to 

690
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,040
the whole thing. 
But like the dude is reserved. 

691
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,800
And then it's like, I think the 
the joke is that David Radisha 

692
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,080
has still never announced his 
retirement and like, refused, 

693
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,560
retired, refuses to announce his
retirement. 

694
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,200
Lost his world champs coming. 
Kind of looks like he's retired,

695
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,800
but. 
Sort of, sort of definitely 

696
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,200
looks like he's retired. 
But he the cool part to all of 

697
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,880
this, though, is that Rhodesia 
does still have an established 

698
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,240
connection with Wenyoni. 
And so the story behind this is 

699
00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:02,720
that before this race, he had a 
conversation with Wenyoni and 

700
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,160
said, like, if you need to make 
it fast, if you don't make it 

701
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,520
fast, you're not going to win. 
And well. 

702
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,640
Wendy, he's like. 
He's like, OK, so you know what 

703
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:17,200
I'm going to go through in 49.27
through the through 400 meters. 

704
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:21,120
Wenyoni an aggressor from the 
start in this one we knew in. 

705
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,160
This is like kind of what we 
knew this was like this was a, 

706
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,120
a, a tactic from Winyoni based 
on every single race. 

707
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,400
He's fitter than everybody. 
We knew that he would. 

708
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,360
He's somebody that likes to run 
from the front, looks great when

709
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,640
he's pushing it at a very fast 
level. 

710
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,520
And so this is the it's not 
surprising to see him do this. 

711
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,280
Yeah. 
Marco a rope today with the 

712
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,480
strategy of like, you know what,
I've tested all these different 

713
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,360
things and today I'm just going 
to go back to what is what has 

714
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,640
been tried and true. 
And it's just like, don't let 

715
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,240
when Yoni go, I'm going to be 
the one who's going to sit on 

716
00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,280
it. 
Best, best race of his season. 

717
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,680
And I know we were, we were, we 
were, we were chopping it up 

718
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,800
over his season earlier, you 
know, in this week. 

719
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,200
But we we certainly have seen 
him do everything under the sun 

720
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,240
in order to beat Yoni and it 
hasn't worked. 

721
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,400
And he gave himself the best 
shot today in order to win. 

722
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,480
And he really was there and gave
himself a chance to win last 

723
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,120
year. 
When when I think that, you 

724
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,200
know, like Eric and I's side, 
like when he was more fit last 

725
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,600
year when he got to the 
championship championships, he 

726
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,600
actually sat, he was in the back
of the field and he did his his,

727
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,560
his like Jakob Ingebritsen. 
I'm going to go to the back and 

728
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,760
then I'm going to out kick 
everybody. 

729
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:38,560
And he did that really well last
year. 

730
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,800
But I don't think that he was in
the fitness to do that this 

731
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,080
year. 
And So what we saw him do was be

732
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,480
really aggressive early in the 
1st 300 in order, you know, to 

733
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,360
get on one Yoni and, and really 
like try to match his moves. 

734
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,920
I think what was interesting in 
that 800 was watching 1 Yoni 

735
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:58,080
really press from 400 to 500, 
which is generally when 

736
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,280
everyone's kind of like trying 
to settle or move. 

737
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,040
And when you're trying to move 
up in a field in an 800 when 

738
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,560
someone from the front is 
squeezing, it's hell. 

739
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,800
It is it I like. 
I can't describe how. 

740
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,800
How much hell like it feels like
you are in when someone from the

741
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,840
front is pulling in an 800 when 
you were trying to move up from 

742
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:22,120
the back. 
So kudos to Wynoni for for for 

743
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,880
his race. 
The dude is a dog on the final 

744
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:25,840
hundred. 
Yeah, like. 

745
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,080
He he, I know I'm I'm yapping 
here. 

746
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:30,720
The dude is a freaking dog over 
the final hundred. 

747
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:32,320
That is the key take away. 
Yeah. 

748
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,520
You look at that final 100 
meters and who's rounding up on 

749
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,040
his shoulder with Marco and you 
know, Bergen tried to go on the 

750
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,320
inside. 
Sajadi, I think the Irishman 

751
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,120
left his run late. 
But to hold on and to like your 

752
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,680
expectation, and I know it's 
when you're new is Olympic 

753
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,840
champion, whatever, but just the
way everything pans out and 

754
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,160
typically how this goes is like,
oh, damn, he's gone. 

755
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:53,960
They're going to come over the 
top. 

756
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,280
Like somebody is going to out 
kick this guy and then he every 

757
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,200
5 meters you're like, oh, but 
wait, actually he's going to 

758
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,760
hold on and maybe maybe five 
extra meters. 

759
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,760
Sajadi is your, you know, world 
champion. 

760
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,640
But this guy run to your point, 
he just he is unrelenting in the

761
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,080
last 100. 
You're going to have to bleed 

762
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,840
and kill to get to the front of 
that race. 

763
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,480
And when Yoni does such a great 
job in, in everybody being aware

764
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,120
that it's like, shit, there's no
easy pass in any of this. 

765
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,680
Like, if I'm going to get past 
him, I'm going to have to have 

766
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,360
the best, my best, best, best 
day. 

767
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,560
And he he worked him. 
He ran it perfectly. 

768
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,120
World Championship record, Yeah.
I think that that was the 

769
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,080
championship. 
World Championship. 140 ones a 

770
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,720
lot across the board. 
I think what's like so impressed

771
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,840
about when Yoni is that you know
that this is kind of his 

772
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,960
strategy and his strategy is the
hardest strategy. 

773
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,680
I'm going to go out in the front
and then it's up to you guys to 

774
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,080
come past me and to in the 800 
especially to go out hard and 

775
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,880
then try and keep stretching 
out, keep kicking from the front

776
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:03,320
is what he did and he did it. 
It's like to see him throughout 

777
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,280
the race, every single person, 
like you see Marco come up on 

778
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,040
his shoulder, they come up on 
him, he fights him off and he's 

779
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,960
still because the hardest 
position you have in a 

780
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,200
championship race, any, any race
really, is to kick from the 

781
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,760
front. 
And the entire race, when Yogi's

782
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:26,560
thinking from the front, it, it 
really is, it's it's like a 

783
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,640
cheat code to be able to to kick
from the front because 

784
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:36,080
everybody, the, it's so much 
easier to be the hunter rather 

785
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:41,040
than than, than to hunt. 
Because it's just like when Yoni

786
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,880
has this ability and that's why 
he hasn't lost in such a long 

787
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,360
time, because he's such a good 
racer from the front and it's so

788
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,600
hard to race from the front like
he's doing. 

789
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:59,400
And my God, I mean the the times
like do I see when Yoni running 

790
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,360
a David Rudisha time? 
I don't see him doing it right 

791
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,360
now, but. 
Potentially, yeah. 

792
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,120
Well, yes, exactly. 
Potentially that is in the mix, 

793
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,040
but also we shouldn't even be 
talking about that, yeah. 

794
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,280
World record. 
Like the world record is not 

795
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,320
even something that we should be
talking about because it 

796
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,400
doesn't, it's not even close to 
on the table. 

797
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,600
Like like last year. 
We a lot of guys are running in 

798
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:31,600
the 140 ones and to but Rudito 
is a 140 guy. 

799
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,320
Yeah, right. 
And so it's like that is it's 

800
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,960
it's not it doesn't, it's not 
all it it's not only not fair to

801
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,080
these guys who are running at 
this level. 

802
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,800
It's it's just one of these 
things where it it sets 

803
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,080
unrealistic expectation for fans
that all of a sudden are like, 

804
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:51,160
oh man, like you, we should be 
let's get, let's get some world 

805
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,880
record times. 
Like do you? 

806
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,600
You don't understand. 
Unfathomable like 5 times. 

807
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,000
A year, I think the best races 
that you could possibly have. 

808
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,840
And now you want David Rudish at
times. 

809
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,960
It's not going to happen. 
Yeah, right now, like let's get 

810
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,480
closer to those times and then 
maybe we can talk about it. 

811
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,080
But we we haven't earn the right
to start talking about world 

812
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,840
records. 
Let's enjoy these these 

813
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,040
fantastic matchups and then at 
some point, if it comes close, 

814
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,520
then we can start talking about 
it. 

815
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,880
Can I go back to my NBA analogy?
And it's like watching the NBA 

816
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:31,520
Finals and you're watching let's
go, Steph Curry versus LeBron 

817
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,160
James. 
And it's just an incredible 

818
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,080
series. 
And then the the thing that 

819
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,640
you're talking about afterwards 
is, and I wonder if Steph 

820
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,560
Curry's gonna break the, you 
know, the the NBA record for 

821
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,040
threes or scoring. 
Yes, but it's like, no, you just

822
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,320
got a 7 game series cool against
like the greats. 

823
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,160
Yeah, but you're the only thing,
the thing that you're mentioning

824
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,160
is a scoring record. 
Yeah. 

825
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,240
It's like, no, you actually just
got the the game. 

826
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:55,560
You got the real, you got the 
thing that actually mattered. 

827
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,680
Yeah, but that's it. 
That's the thing that matters. 

828
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,560
This is the battle, right? 
This is, this is the thing 

829
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,080
that'll get talked about for the
ages. 

830
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,920
It's it's who can win, right? 
And I and I, Eric, it's a great 

831
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,640
point. 
And the other thing about I 

832
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,400
suppose this era as opposed to 
David Rudisha is when he ran 

833
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,240
that 140, he smoked him and he 
was so far and he was, he was 

834
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:16,120
just in a world of his own and 
he was similar. 

835
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,280
He could kick from the front. 
He had the you know when Yoni 

836
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,440
kind of has the shades of the 
Rhodesia mold, but when Yoni 

837
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,800
also has about 5 or 6 guys in 
this race running 140 ones. 

838
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,680
And he's 21 years old. 
He's 21 years old. 

839
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,960
Not that, but my point being it 
is a deeper like what we've got 

840
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,920
now. 
When we had Radisha, Radisha was

841
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,760
kind of a league of his own. 
It was like he's untouchable and

842
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,960
like he was out in 140 twos or 
whatever it was for the rest of 

843
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,840
the field. 
We've got on any given day, 6 to

844
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,640
8 guys who can run 141 mid to 
low. 

845
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,080
And that in and of itself is an 
improvement of the event because

846
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,000
there's no longer a runaway 
leader. 

847
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,520
We it on coming into the home 
straight, there was six guys. 

848
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,640
You could have made a genuine 
case for being like on their 

849
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,800
day, they could actually win 
this and evidently the best guy 

850
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,120
won. 
But it's an exciting period to 

851
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,080
be able to throw a cloth over 
it, and it could happen another 

852
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,840
way. 
It's one of these events where 

853
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,680
it's not just the event, right? 
It's like kind of like the sport

854
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:18,720
and headlines in general where 
it's like world records. 

855
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,720
You want to see world records 
and you you could just throw it 

856
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:26,760
out there, right, Because the 
average person will watch who 

857
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,440
isn't as track fan will see the 
times like it is so close. 

858
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:32,920
Yeah. 
And it's not close. 

859
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:33,800
It's not close. 
It's like. 

860
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,040
If if you it, yeah, yeah, it's, 
it's it's worlds apart. 

861
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,560
But if you are like they're 
watching. 

862
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,080
If I'm if I'm just like 
headlining this, this this media

863
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,720
company and I'm trying to get 
eyes on this. 

864
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,800
Of course you'll make it. 
Say I can, I can whatever the 

865
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,880
hell I want, and it's close to 
the average person that doesn't 

866
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,960
know. 
But The thing is, it's like it's

867
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:04,360
not this this it's not exciting.
It's exciting enough without 

868
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,920
like saying that oh, you need to
break a world record because 

869
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,120
that like the you you think 
about like the 2012 one didn't 

870
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,000
find perfect race. 
Yeah, it is. 

871
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,080
The is the best 800 rate to run 
you've ever seen. 

872
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:16,760
Great. 
Race. 

873
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,320
It's like the greatest race in. 
The History 100. 

874
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,920
Percent and so you can't just 
like come in and say, Oh yeah, 

875
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:28,080
when Yoni's got a shot to break 
that record because he has no 

876
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:33,560
shot as of right now. 
Yeah, if he there you could say 

877
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:34,960
last year. 
Yeah. 

878
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,240
Guy could maybe have had a shot 
but. 

879
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:38,840
He's also, to your point, he's 
young. 

880
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,480
He's got so much time to hit. 
Yeah, he doesn't have a shot. 

881
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,080
No, no, I'm agreeing with you. 
No, I'm agreeing with you. 

882
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,800
I'm just saying, time's on our 
side here. 

883
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,400
Time's aside, let's not keep 
focusing on time. 

884
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:53,120
Focus on the competition and 
like, really hype the event. 

885
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,160
Don't hype hype. 
Don't don't bring in David 

886
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,240
Rudisha into the stands. 
Like man, the record might go 

887
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:02,560
down today because you know, 
Rudisha is sitting this thing 

888
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,680
going this record is. 
Not going down today, so I'll 

889
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,800
gladly just. 
Sitting there, couple of drinks,

890
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,960
Steve being like I'm good, this 
record that I've had the 

891
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,320
greatest race in history. 
I'm good. 

892
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:19,960
This is not coming close to 
going down today because the 

893
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:27,160
because what Rudisha had is not 
only lots of records and like 

894
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,400
races, building and building and
and like this was the race this 

895
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,800
the the 2012 800 race didn't 
come out of nowhere. 

896
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:39,520
That was this this race that was
like you kind of it was one of 

897
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,320
these race. 
Yes, it was like it was a steady

898
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,200
incline of a build up to this 
race and that's why it was such 

899
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,040
a climactic race. 
And if nobody's going to 

900
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:54,800
challenge Wynoni, you're not 
getting any sort any. 

901
00:48:54,800 --> 00:49:00,320
You're not going to even come 
close to the David Rudish 140.9 

902
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,360
race. 
So let's not even. 

903
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,360
Let's pause on the world record 
talk. 

904
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:10,720
These guys haven't built up to 
even work up to the world record

905
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,040
race, so it just doesn't make 
sense to me to hype that up. 

906
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,360
But. 
It was a good race tonight. 

907
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,560
Fantastic race tonight and keep 
doing that because the 800 is 

908
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,560
still building and building. 
It's one of the like every 

909
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:29,080
single other event, it's getting
better and better, but it's not.

910
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,160
It's not a world. 
It's not a world record 

911
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,240
standards right now. 
Yeah, yeah, it it is I guess 

912
00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:37,160
like one of the the fun things 
about rewatching that 2012 

913
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,120
various all the time is just 
that when you look at the 

914
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,840
results page and you see all the
letters that are in the results 

915
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:49,560
page, there's WR national record
course, you know, PBPBPB season 

916
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,360
best, whatever it is. 
So it's like tonight we got a 

917
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,160
lot of that, you know, you know,
championship record seasons, 

918
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,280
best season, best national 
record seasons best PB national 

919
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,360
record. 
But I what I want to touch on in

920
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,240
that regard, you know, now 
shying away from times is like 

921
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:06,240
big ups to the other guys 
outside of the medals who gave 

922
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:08,400
themselves like the best shots 
to win. 

923
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,160
Muhammad Attutui just like all 
the way in the back. 

924
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,760
But then unleashing that kick 
that we've seen just over the 

925
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,440
last couple races that like I 
potentially thought I viewed him

926
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,680
as like, hey, like that guy can 
either get bronze or silver, 

927
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,200
depending on what how the rest 
of the field ahead of him goes. 

928
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,160
Keon Mcphillips of Ireland 
having like the best 

929
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:31,440
championship of his life today 
in that final 100 meters, 

930
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,960
charging home like no one else 
coming into this whole entire 

931
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,040
championships. 
Like Mark English was the 

932
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:42,280
recently minted national record 
holder. 

933
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,680
Mark English unfortunately first
guy out of the final and also 

934
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:51,360
lost his Irish record to be on 
this this weekend and then Keon 

935
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,200
just lowers it even more and 
finishes 4th in one 4215. 

936
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:56,640
Now that's fun. 
Yeah. 

937
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,320
This is fun, He. 
Smoked it twice. 

938
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,560
Twice. 
He wasn't even in the 140 threes

939
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,040
coming into the championships 
until the semi finals, Yeah. 

940
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,560
These iron like this is that's a
lot of fun and like these Irish 

941
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,320
guys have 140. 215 and. 
This this like a really like 

942
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:18,920
under the radar rivalry of these
guys being people aren't again, 

943
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:23,160
it's it's tough because they're 
at the World Championships. 

944
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:24,560
Yeah. 
And so if this was like another 

945
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,520
weekend, you would be talking 
about all like these Irish guys 

946
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,520
are just like absolutely 
lowering the record week after 

947
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:32,600
week. 
And it's. 

948
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,240
But since it's the, you know 
it's the. 

949
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,120
It's the world, there's nothing 
beyond this too, so it's like we

950
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:40,240
got to wait until next. 
Year. 

951
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:43,280
This is it. 
How like they they stack up and 

952
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,800
you know, someone like Mark 
English, you know, is returning 

953
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:52,120
to the training group with with 
JT Yeah and like he Mark English

954
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,880
like levelled up this year, you 
know, especially just like just 

955
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,760
in general just getting into the
the 148 twos and like. 

956
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,400
Shout out Justin. 
Yeah, Justin Rinaldi Yeah, Yeah,

957
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,240
Jr. if you are an 8 if you are 
an. 800 meter guy who's been on 

958
00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:13,040
the fringe for a long time and 
you don't have Justin Rinaldi's 

959
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,680
number. 
You've got rocks in your head, 

960
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,600
that guy. 
And and yeah, he's Australian 

961
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,400
and we're actually neighbors, 
which is quite funny. 

962
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:25,280
But the what, what he's done for
Josh Hoey and English like less 

963
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:26,920
than a minute a SEC. 
Yeah. 

964
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,360
Listen, we go to the same shout 
out Jethro Canteen back home. 

965
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:35,400
But honestly, if you're his, his
training is so proven. 

966
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:36,560
Like this is what you're looking
for. 

967
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,080
Prove it to me in terms of how 
fast can I run and how well can 

968
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,640
I get through rounds. 
Kind of pretty damn good job and

969
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,360
I was unfortunate about Josh not
making the team, but. 

970
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,440
How old is so Mark is? 
Mark's a bit older. 

971
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,080
I think, yeah, Well, the Gray 
hair throws people off, yeah. 

972
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,400
Yeah, yeah, he, he. 
Throws you off, but also his 

973
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:56,760
age. 
He is also. 

974
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,800
A bit older. 
It's like yeah, especially like 

975
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,600
the 800, yes. 
It's such a tough event. 

976
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,960
It's amazing that he's been able
to do it this well and he's 

977
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,320
getting better yeah. 
And so I'm not saying like he's 

978
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,040
done right now, right, but like 
this event is such a tough 

979
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,080
event. 
It's getting better. 

980
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,800
They're getting faster. 
He's getting older. 

981
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,400
It's it's one of these it's like
you have to be realistic. 

982
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:25,000
Yeah. 
And so, yes, he said such a 

983
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,360
great year and he actually has 
had probably what the best year 

984
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,920
of his life. 
And then here comes Keon 

985
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:35,240
Mcphillips to just like. 
Yeah, it's better for him, yeah.

986
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,920
Yeah, now you got that. 
You got that person in your 

987
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,480
nationals. 
Some fire. 

988
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,600
Let's go. 
Create the competition. 

989
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:43,480
Yeah. 
Because, yes, you want to 

990
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,120
create, you want to run against 
these other athletes. 

991
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,560
But there is a different tort 
sort of thing when you're 

992
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,240
running against one of your 
countrymen. 

993
00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:54,080
Yeah, who it's like you're you 
were the best. 

994
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,200
Now here's another guy that's 
coming in. 

995
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,640
You want to be the you want. 
You want the competition. 

996
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,240
Exactly. 
Yeah, you want the competition 

997
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:06,160
and I think it's it's so much 
fun to see it. 800 is one of 

998
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,600
these events that's it's a fun 
one. 

999
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,800
Yeah, Yeah, Everyone loves to 
watch the 800 2 minutes or less.

1000
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,000
It's like it's. 
Good for attention span. 

1001
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,840
Now the TikTok attack span is 
going to say, let's make this 

1002
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,640
less that's. 718 seconds and 
then. 

1003
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,720
And then you have to that go, 
let's make this. 

1004
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,680
Less. 
And then we're back with Vine 

1005
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:27,600
and. 
Then we're back, Chris. 

1006
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,960
Chris, just bring back Vine. 
Vine would be sick. 

1007
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:33,040
I thought it was a great. 
Thing it. 

1008
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:37,360
Was it was so awesome. 
So yes, I'm like a Vine guy, 

1009
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:38,880
especially when it comes to the 
800. 

1010
00:54:39,240 --> 00:54:47,440
But it's see like the to Mark 
English, it's inspiring to see 

1011
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,640
him like progressing and like 
doing better than ever because 

1012
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,240
he raised his whole 
championships. 

1013
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,880
Like obviously he's a veteran, 
but like to see him like go 

1014
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,840
through and just getting better 
and better each round. 

1015
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:00,320
I thought it was so much fun to 
watch. 

1016
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,480
Yeah, it's it's, there's 
actually not too many guys in 

1017
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,280
this field, even though they 
didn't meddle or whatever that 

1018
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:08,920
would be, that disappointed with
the way that they tactically 

1019
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,600
approached the race and in their
times. 

1020
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:12,480
Because. 
Exactly. 

1021
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,640
Clock and a PB with like a whole
second plus. 

1022
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:21,120
Yeah, Max Bergen at the very 
like he stuck his nose in it 

1023
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,240
from the gun. 
I salute Max Bergen because 

1024
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:26,680
yeah, he gave it a crack. 
He kind of got caught on the 

1025
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,920
inside a bit. 
I could tell he wanted to get 

1026
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,320
out, but when the Jamaican came 
around his shoulder with 100 

1027
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:33,800
minutes to go, he kind of got 
locked in. 

1028
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,040
But he still fought and I and I 
actually thought he was about to

1029
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,240
Co hocker it and get on the 
inside of Wagonji. 

1030
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:42,640
But again, another guy this year
who's leaps and bounds has has 

1031
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,960
made huge advances in the way 
that he's competing and as 

1032
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:47,880
opposed to respect that you put 
on his name too. 

1033
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,040
So that's the. 
Where did where did Bergen end 

1034
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:50,320
up? 
I think. 

1035
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,080
He was sixth in the end. 
Sixth, yeah, yeah, 6th. 

1036
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,080
But he was there. 
He he was there. 

1037
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:55,840
He was there. 
He. 

1038
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,240
Was. 
Yeah, exactly. 

1039
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,720
He's kind of man like this, this
event dude, he just shows you 

1040
00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:07,240
how stacked it is. 
He's getting a Bergen PB today. 

1041
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,880
And like he was a guy we'd all 
been kind of gassing up because 

1042
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,880
he's always sound. 
It's like he's always, he's 

1043
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,400
always very sound. 
He's always in the mix. 

1044
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,880
I mean, he was taking when Yoni 
to the line in the Diamond 

1045
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:32,000
League final and he was 6 today 
in the PB and that I mean. 

1046
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,560
Yeah, it was. 
It was the best 800 of the year.

1047
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,320
Best 800 of the year. 
And they also been trying to gas

1048
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,800
up like a potential world record
and it's not even anywhere 

1049
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:45,920
fucking close to it. 
Just shows you like how stacked 

1050
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,440
this event is and how tough it 
is, how tough these world 

1051
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,200
records are. 
Yeah, 100%. 

1052
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:54,600
When unions to Jodi erupt, 
that's your podium, all right. 

1053
00:56:54,800 --> 00:57:02,080
That was the men's 800 covers us
for the distance races taking 

1054
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:06,200
place tonight, except for 
actually the 800 at the end of 

1055
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,400
the women's heptathlon. 
Anna Hall finally comes away 

1056
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,360
with the gold medal. 
Phenomenal performance over the 

1057
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:16,080
course of of two days and ends 
up actually being super 

1058
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:20,560
interesting because we got two 
Americans on the podium. 4 

1059
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:26,800
medalists overall as Talia 
Brooks ends up with the with the

1060
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:32,160
bronze medal tied with Katarina 
Johnson Thompson for bronze. 

1061
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,000
And then in addition to that, 
let me see where I'm trying to 

1062
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,240
dig up. 
Oh, here we go. 

1063
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,480
All of the combined points 
score. 

1064
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,680
So it was Anna Hall, Kate 
O'Connor from Ireland. 

1065
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:46,960
So in addition to Keon, Kate 
O'Connor ending up with a silver

1066
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,760
medal big for Ireland, Talia 
Brooks, Katarina Johnson, 

1067
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:55,320
Thompson to the very point end 
up with a bronze fantastic 

1068
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,040
heptathlon over the course of 
two days. 

1069
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,680
How do you, how do you, I don't 
know if this mic works, but how 

1070
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:03,640
do you go that many events with 
tie scoring system that is in 

1071
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,840
the six thousands, Yeah. 
And then you tie. 

1072
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,400
Yeah, what crazy. 
The odds are the odds are crazy,

1073
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:16,640
and it did end up happening. 
For Anna Hall, this completes a 

1074
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,040
set. 
Now she's got gold, silver, 

1075
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,600
bronze in three of the last four
global championships. 

1076
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:28,800
She is arguably like the best 
all around female athlete in the

1077
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,440
world potentially. 
I the same way that people argue

1078
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:35,520
about like, Oh yeah, the the 
Olympic champion in the 

1079
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,440
decathlon is the world's 
greatest athlete. 

1080
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:41,080
I think that that conversation 
or no, no, in the decathlon for 

1081
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,480
the men's, like with Ashton and 
all that stuff, like it was 

1082
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,000
always like the whole argument 
about like the that's the 

1083
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,040
world's greatest athlete, like 
tagline back to Dan O'Brien 

1084
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:56,040
beyond days women's event. 
Like with the heptathlon, 100%. 

1085
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,320
Like you can have that 
conversation around Anna Hall 

1086
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,360
and just like the brilliance 
that she has had in the last 

1087
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,320
couple of years. 
Yes, there was heartbreak in 

1088
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:08,160
Paris over the fact that like 
she had knee surgery that 

1089
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:12,240
January and like forced herself 
like to rush back and come back 

1090
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,800
and it wasn't fun for her this 
year. 

1091
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:18,320
It was all about rekindling that
that passion that she has for 

1092
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,080
the sport, which she did, I 
think early on this season, 

1093
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,960
throwing herself back into the 
mix against, you know, the 

1094
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,480
specialist in a lot of those 
events. 

1095
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,640
She's never been one to shy away
from competition in that regard.

1096
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:35,040
And then finally when she did 
have Gotzies and she breaks 7000

1097
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:41,640
points and then this time around
comes away with golden 66888 

1098
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:42,600
like. 
What's her? 

1099
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,800
What's her bet? 
Is she she's had she got 7. 

1100
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,080
She's had 7000. 
Is she the number 3? 

1101
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:52,160
Numbers. 
Or two. 

1102
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:57,120
Number two, all time behind 
Jackie Jordan Kersey and I mean 

1103
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:01,120
Jackie Jordan Kersey is a mentor
to her and so it's coming for 

1104
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:05,760
Anna at some point very soon. 
And the interesting part about 

1105
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,120
just like her whole series over 
the course of like the two days 

1106
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,000
is that she got. 
Extra points in certain areas 

1107
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,680
and then maybe didn't perform to
her expectations and some of 

1108
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,360
them and still was able to win 
gold. 

1109
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:20,280
Whereas in the past like panic 
might have settled in after like

1110
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,360
one event didn't go as well. 
But like for what she didn't get

1111
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,360
in the high jump that she had 
hoped for, she did get in like a

1112
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:33,960
shot put PB this time around. 
So Anna's phenomenal and yeah, I

1113
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:37,640
mean, excited for more because 
she was one of those athletes 

1114
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,680
who was like a face of Team USA 
and like all these corporate 

1115
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:45,600
major sponsors in the lead up to
the Paris Olympics. 

1116
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,160
Now, with the home Olympics on 
the horizon, like she's gonna 

1117
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,680
have the title of world champion
attached to her. 

1118
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:54,040
Do you think and as somebody 
that's gonna stick around and do

1119
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:58,880
just this event until the. 
Fun part is with the World 

1120
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,560
Ultimate Championships next year
is that she can explore some of 

1121
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,840
her options like I think like 
she could. 

1122
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:10,280
And I guess we'll bring on 
Anderson shortly, but high jump,

1123
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,040
right? 
Like she could be someone who 

1124
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,120
can look to qualify in that 
event if she chose to just like 

1125
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,560
go to a couple of meets. 
Actually, Anna was telling me 

1126
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:23,800
this in Miami earlier on in the 
season is like she's at a little

1127
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:26,640
bit of a disadvantage because 
like some of the Marks and, and,

1128
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:30,480
and performances that they post 
in these individual and in these

1129
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,840
events during the heptathlon 
don't count toward their world 

1130
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:37,640
ranking if they were to be 
competing individually in those 

1131
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,440
events. 
And so like Anna's high jump 

1132
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:47,400
world ranking isn't super high 
because she has those best 

1133
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,320
performances in the middle of a 
heptathlon. 

1134
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,560
And so that is something that I 
think like should be petitioned 

1135
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,680
to World athletic because it's 
like, hey, there are these 

1136
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,320
performances that they are 
putting together like Anna 

1137
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,880
Hall's, what, 150? 
What was it 150? 

1138
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:03,400
No, no, was it 2 O one for the 
800? 

1139
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,360
What did you run in Gazi's? 
Something like that, right, 

1140
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,600
Anderson? 
It was like 2 O one too flat, 

1141
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,040
whatever it might have been too 
flat. 

1142
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:11,800
I'm forgetting. 
It's been it's a late night. 

1143
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:15,480
And also it's been, it was a 
couple months ago. 201 isn't, I 

1144
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,480
mean, yeah, like you're like a 
150. 

1145
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:20,040
I'm like, cannot. 
That's OK. 

1146
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:21,400
No, no, no, no. 
That's insane. 

1147
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:22,560
Oh no. 
I think I it's kind of like I 

1148
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,160
got ahead of myself. 
No, but even like 2, even 2, 

1149
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,640
that's the thing. 
It's like even the 20, like 2 

1150
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:31,440
flat, even 201 just shows the 
type of after 7 events. 

1151
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:33,560
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing it but 
that really is. 

1152
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,720
That doesn't count towards her 
800 meter. 

1153
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,440
World that's wrong that's wrong 
that's crazy like she count more

1154
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,600
consider it's like in the. 
Yeah, it amongst a whole bunch 

1155
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:43,600
of. 
Stuff, Yeah. 

1156
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:45,440
It's like Keely. 
Keely's the opposite. 

1157
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:47,440
She's like, you know what? 
No, no, no, don't let it count. 

1158
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:51,080
Because I definitely think, 
like, if Anna committed herself 

1159
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:55,440
to one or two events in a year, 
she'd be so good. 

1160
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:59,480
Oh yeah, it's it's like it's 
it's not fair to anybody to say 

1161
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:03,120
like, Oh yeah, it's you know, 
she could be as good as any of 

1162
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:07,160
these athletes, but it would be 
fun to watch her actually die 

1163
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:11,960
full into, you know, the 800 If 
if he choose to yeah, or any of 

1164
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,720
these events. 
What what she choose to the 

1165
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:17,840
beauty? 
Is that she now has two years to

1166
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,520
be able to do that. 
Next year with no heptathlon at 

1167
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,360
the World Ultimate 
Championships, it's like, OK, 

1168
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,280
pick and choose the events you 
really want to go for, do that. 

1169
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:29,160
And then even in 2027, now she's
the world champion. 

1170
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:32,640
You don't have to subject your 
body to a full on heptathlon. 

1171
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:38,960
And so Anna's got plenty of time
to get better and today's win 

1172
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:45,680
pays a like a lot towards her 
build up towards 2028, where 

1173
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:50,520
ultimately she can go into a 
home Olympics as a contender for

1174
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,840
a gold medal. 
And then when you win all of 

1175
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:58,400
those events and you shine so 
bright across that marketing, 

1176
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:02,560
marketing wise, legacy wise, 
that's what you want to be able 

1177
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:07,080
able to go go for. 
So exciting, exciting 

1178
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:11,320
performance by Anna Hall today. 
All right, let's bring on our 

1179
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:16,720
Sprint expert Anderson Emerald 
to unpack for us. 

1180
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:21,360
What the hell is going on with 
these relays? 

1181
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:27,320
There's still just tons of. 
Yeah, Eric kicked out. 

1182
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,480
You're good. 
You guys, you guys can get some 

1183
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:31,560
rest tonight. 
Eric and Mitch. 

1184
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:38,760
Thank you so much, Anderson. 
There are, I mean, I'm, I'm 

1185
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:42,480
seeing tweets, text, all this 
kind of stuff. 

1186
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:51,040
This is what is happening in the
4 by 4 and the four four by one 

1187
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:51,920
random. 
Yeah, yeah, it. 

1188
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:55,480
Was ridiculous. 
I mean you want to do the 4x4 

1189
01:04:55,480 --> 01:05:00,360
first since I was we got major 
US drama or or do you want? 

1190
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,440
To let's go. 
Well, so from a just purely 

1191
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:08,160
standard perspective of just 
like an overall summary of 

1192
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:11,880
things in the four by one the 
contenders, the heavy contenders

1193
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:15,800
made it through right Canada. 
Men's side well. 

1194
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,120
Except. 
For there was, there was 

1195
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,520
actually a a good amount of 
casualties here, right? 

1196
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:22,320
Oh yeah, I'm looking at it now. 
Jeez. 

1197
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,000
So for us, right, United States,
I think just starting there, we 

1198
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,440
made it through very cleanly, 
which I did like for the men 

1199
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:34,360
where we saw Christian Coleman, 
we saw Christian Coleman was 

1200
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:37,560
handing off to Ronnie Baker, 
heading off to Trayvon Burmel, 

1201
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:38,920
handing off to Team Mars 
McCallum. 

1202
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:43,440
So really strong team and they 
looked pretty solid, like all 

1203
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,120
their handoffs look pretty good.
Maybe some little things. 

1204
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,320
I mean, nothing is going to be 
absolutely perfect, but all 

1205
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,040
things considered, looking at 
the history of the United 

1206
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,280
States, they. 
Got the baton around, That's OK.

1207
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,600
Got the baton around and they're
safely qualified into the final 

1208
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,920
and this is the first men's 4 by
1 and really of course we'll 

1209
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,320
talk about the women in a second
as well, but the first four by 

1210
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:08,280
one under this new relay coach, 
right so I'm I'm impressed with 

1211
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:11,000
the United States going into the
final and they should. 

1212
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:13,640
They're gonna swap out probably 
most of this team. 

1213
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:17,760
Yeah, I suspect that. 
So no for a fact, Kenny and Noah

1214
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:21,040
are gonna be on the team, and 
then it's possible Courtney 

1215
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,320
Lindsay might get swapped out. 
He did the double. 

1216
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,480
Not sure. 
I'm assuming that Christian 

1217
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:31,080
Coleman, Kenny B, Lindsay no 
allows might end up being the 

1218
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:34,520
final team, but or some 
combination of that. 

1219
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,080
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
So that that's safe. 

1220
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:38,280
I actually really. 
Did love. 

1221
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:39,440
I like the team. 
Yeah, I like. 

1222
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:40,400
I like the. 
I like the. 

1223
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:41,400
Team. 
Today's team too. 

1224
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:45,240
I like today's team, today's 
team, but so they're through 

1225
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,360
Canada. 
They actually beat out the 

1226
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:51,520
United States to get the win. 
And I mean, I don't know how 

1227
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:55,320
Canada does it. 
Like they'll look pretty poor in

1228
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,800
their individual events and find
a way to just show up in the 

1229
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,560
four by one, which is which is 
huge kudos to them, but they 

1230
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,040
were able to get the win. 
So they'll they're the Olympic 

1231
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,080
champions. 
They're going to be a challenge 

1232
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,040
going into the final. 
But then this is where we do get

1233
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:13,480
into some interesting discussion
because Jamaica, who probably on

1234
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:16,240
paper was a very strong 
contender to push the United 

1235
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:20,840
States in that final for the 
gold medal, they end up dropping

1236
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:25,600
the baton and not executing the 
handoff and DNF, right. 

1237
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:27,320
They're unable to, actually. 
Finish. 

1238
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,440
I'm seeing this now. 
Kishane Thompson. 

1239
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:32,040
Yeah. 
And so, like Kishane, Thompson 

1240
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:35,600
has now run at what is it, World
Relays World. 

1241
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:39,560
Relays London Diamond League and
London Diamond League and here. 

1242
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,280
And it's never gotten to him. 
Yes, exactly. 

1243
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,480
So when you say he's now run at 
the world, he. 

1244
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:45,640
Didn't run. 
You need. 

1245
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,640
To get the baton because of the 
issues that they had, London 

1246
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:50,560
Diamond League, they did get the
baton around. 

1247
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:53,560
That was actually the race they 
needed to qualify for world 

1248
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,360
champs. 
And then here he doesn't get the

1249
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,720
baton. 
They, I don't know, it was 

1250
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,440
Raheem Ford and it was, you 
know, to Kashhane Thompson on 

1251
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,560
the last hand off it looked like
Kashhane possibly went out a 

1252
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:08,360
little bit too, too early. 
He took off too early. 

1253
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,040
Raheem Ford wasn't able to get 
it to him and they dropped the 

1254
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:13,640
baton. 
I mean it, it sucks because 

1255
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:18,279
Jamaica had, they went 1-2 in 
100 like they had the strong 

1256
01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:21,880
team they had, you know, Brian 
Lavelle won the 200 and he's a 

1257
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,680
strong 100 runner. 
So there was a possibility that 

1258
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:28,640
we were going to see another USA
versus Jamaica 4 by 1 going into

1259
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:31,040
the final, but. 
Not not happening. 

1260
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,120
Not happening. 
So that's Jamaica, that's he 

1261
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:36,800
won. 
He too also had some casualties 

1262
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,200
because I think Ghana won. 
They they were able to get 

1263
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:45,680
safely through, but we lost or 
you know, South Africa, they 

1264
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:47,200
lost. 
They didn't qualify through. 

1265
01:08:47,399 --> 01:08:49,399
Great Britain didn't qualify 
through. 

1266
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:52,319
And that's the silver and bronze
medalist from the Olympic Games 

1267
01:08:52,319 --> 01:08:55,080
last year. 
So it was a huge casualty. 

1268
01:08:55,359 --> 01:08:58,760
What was interesting here is 
Great Britain, they just didn't 

1269
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,800
execute the last hand off. 
They their anchor leg just went 

1270
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,479
off too early. 
They didn't even drop the baton.

1271
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:05,359
They just couldn't get it and 
they were out the zone. 

1272
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:10,600
South Africa on the first leg, 
it was Sean Masungani, you know,

1273
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:14,960
competed for for Houston. 
He was on the first leg, he 

1274
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:19,359
actually was hit by Marcel 
Jacobs from Italy. 

1275
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:25,080
So it was very reminiscent of 
2016 where Allison Felix on the 

1276
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:28,720
second leg, she was hit by 
Brazil, I think it was. 

1277
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:32,200
And you know, she they were able
to protest and they eventually 

1278
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:35,359
ran again. 
The runoff, the solo runoff, 

1279
01:09:35,359 --> 01:09:38,600
which we'll we'll talk about in 
a second with the 4 by 4. 

1280
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,120
But the problem with South 
Africa is, and it's very clear, 

1281
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:47,960
Italy, Marcel Jacobs, he hit 
Sean, but South Africa didn't 

1282
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:51,520
complete the race, right? 
So if you remember in 2016, 

1283
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:54,960
Allison Felix and English 
gardener, they like went back, 

1284
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,840
got the baton and finished off 
the race because they knew they 

1285
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:00,560
had to I guess for whatever 
protest they needed to make sure

1286
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:03,520
that they can do that, right. 
South Africa didn't do that. 

1287
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,520
So they were not advanced and 
that's that. 

1288
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,160
So it's. 
So. 

1289
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:12,360
Crazy. 
And then with heat three, it 

1290
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,640
was. 
No, no, no there. 

1291
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,320
That was just one, two, yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, just yeah, two 

1292
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:18,480
heats, so. 
Yeah. 

1293
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:21,400
I mean, it's setting up Then 
where are we looking, USA versus

1294
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:23,200
Canada? 
It's USA versus Canada. 

1295
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,040
I think that's that's the race 
right now. 

1296
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:26,280
I mean. 
Gosh. 

1297
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,360
I know. 
It it's cool. 

1298
01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:32,480
It's cool, it makes it easier, 
but obviously USA has to just 

1299
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,840
get it around. 
I I will say USA, let me not say

1300
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:39,240
they don't have they have a 
great track record, but we are 

1301
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:42,960
the defending world champions in
the four by one 2022 we got the 

1302
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:48,600
silver, 2019 we got the gold. 
So at world champs we seem to 

1303
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,720
always get on the podium in 
recent years Olympics, we have 

1304
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,480
issues. 
But you know, I, I'd say we have

1305
01:10:54,480 --> 01:10:57,760
a very, very good chance of 
getting the title, you know, 

1306
01:10:57,800 --> 01:10:58,960
tomorrow in the four by one for 
the. 

1307
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:00,800
We'll see. 
We'll see. 

1308
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:05,040
Nothing's guaranteed, all right.
And then then the four by 4. 

1309
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,760
Yes, which or we can we can 
quickly. 

1310
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,640
A Women's Women's 4 by 1. 
That one was pretty chalk for 

1311
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,520
the most part. 
All the main teams, United 

1312
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:20,000
States, Jamaica, Jamaica, you 
had Great Britain, WE Germany, 

1313
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:24,000
you had all the the major 
players qualify through USA ran 

1314
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:28,080
Jason Sears to TT Terry to 
Kayla, Kayla White to Shakira 

1315
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:32,160
Richardson J Sis is going to be 
subbed out for Melissa Jefferson

1316
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,960
Wooden, which will be it'll kind
of make the whole Dennis 

1317
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:39,320
Mitchell squad so. 
Melissa will lead off. 

1318
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,800
Seems like that, yeah. 
And I, I think makes sense. 

1319
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,280
In my opinion. 
It makes sense. 

1320
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:47,280
Obviously I, Melissa is the 
fastest, so in theory she would 

1321
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:51,040
go on anchor. 
But I think just the the synergy

1322
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:55,920
of that team and also the other 
places where each athlete can 

1323
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:59,600
run, I, I don't think anyone can
start as well as Melissa. 

1324
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,840
Like we're not, I'm not 
switching Shakiri and putting on

1325
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,000
on first leg like like at all at
all. 

1326
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,920
That would be kind of rough. 
Like Shakiri has a great top end

1327
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:11,880
speed, but a very, very poor 
start. 

1328
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:15,200
So yeah, I think we hold things,
we hold things down. 

1329
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:17,560
So. 
Just trying to think when that'd

1330
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,440
be a good stat. 
When's the last time Shakiri let

1331
01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:23,120
off a a four by one, if ever? 
Maybe in high school, I don't. 

1332
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:25,480
Know. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1333
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:27,840
Pretty This is pretty chalk and 
pretty smooth. 

1334
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:31,560
The fun, the fun thing about the
relays is that like you want the

1335
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:35,800
photo moment of like having the 
star anchor and yes, she carries

1336
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:38,880
an amazing star, but like the 
star of this championships is. 

1337
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:40,200
Melissa. 
HW. 

1338
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,080
Yeah, it's Melissa. 
So it'll be. 

1339
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:44,760
Yeah, that would, that would be 
great. 

1340
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:48,840
But I it seems unless who knows,
maybe they do some little 

1341
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:50,720
switcheroo when we'll see the 
final. 

1342
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:52,520
But yeah, things are pretty 
chalk there. 

1343
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:55,400
All right, before we get to the 
men's before, before, let's 

1344
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:58,480
let's do ladies first. 
Oh, women's Before, before 

1345
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:00,960
pretty. 
Pretty smooth as well. 

1346
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:05,240
USA qualifies through Jamaica 
qualifies through excuse me, 

1347
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,520
Netherlands. 
They they're smoothly through. 

1348
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,120
I think those are the the top 
three. 

1349
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,360
Great Britain is also through 
so. 

1350
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:16,320
OK, so the USA squad is today 
was Alexis Holmes, Rosie F 

1351
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:19,840
Young, Kanara Hayes and then 
Britton Wilson. 

1352
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:21,160
And Wilson? 
Yep, they were. 

1353
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,320
What's the four for the final 
you think? 

1354
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:27,640
I think so. 
I, I'm not sure, but so I know 

1355
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:31,920
for, I'm pretty confident that 
obviously Sydney, I suspect 

1356
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,080
we're going to have Aaliyah 
Butler and Isabella Whitaker 

1357
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:37,680
because they ran in the open 4 
as well and they're drastically,

1358
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,160
significantly faster than all 
these women, at least this year.

1359
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:45,600
And then I suspect Alexis Holmes
will be it's either yeah, I, I 

1360
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,760
probably think Alexis Holmes 
will be added in. 

1361
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:51,080
She anchored the American record
team from last year at the 

1362
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:54,360
Olympic Games. 
She also anchored the mix relay 

1363
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:56,720
at that won gold earlier in the 
championship. 

1364
01:13:56,720 --> 01:14:00,480
So I suspect Alexis Holmes, but 
I wouldn't be surprised if it's 

1365
01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:03,320
like Britain, Wilson or even 
Lena. 

1366
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:06,760
Irby Jackson was actually 4th 
place at US as and she was on 

1367
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:10,040
the mix relay. 
So there's some options, but I 

1368
01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:12,040
would probably guess Alexis 
Holmes. 

1369
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,400
Yeah, because I was just trying 
to think of like, is there a fun

1370
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:16,760
option out of the 200? 
But then like, I don't think I 

1371
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,280
could see Mackenzie Long or. 
Brittany Brown No, we don't have

1372
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:21,560
that. 
Battle, yeah, we don't have. 

1373
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,080
Gabby, yeah, we don't have that 
situation this year, 

1374
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,880
unfortunately. 
But yeah, that this one should 

1375
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:29,360
be pretty smooth I think. 
And then USA goes into the final

1376
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,280
heavy favorites. 
Heavy, heavy favorites. 

1377
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,960
I mean yeah, usai think behind 
them. 

1378
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,920
We're looking at to make a 
Netherlands graper in for, you 

1379
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,520
know, silver and bronze. 
But yeah, he's looking good. 

1380
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:44,680
OK, then I gave it some time 
because now at this point it is 

1381
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:47,280
just after, you know, one O 
clock in the morning here in 

1382
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:50,240
Tokyo. 
And I wanted to see what other 

1383
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:52,960
information starts to like, you 
know, file in. 

1384
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:59,840
But men's 4 by 4 is drama filled
right now in terms of just 

1385
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:03,200
appeals and protests and all 
this kind of stuff. 

1386
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,200
So Anderson, break it down for 
us. 

1387
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:09,040
The heats are taking place. 
He won. 

1388
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,040
Won. 
Does that, Donovan. 

1389
01:15:12,480 --> 01:15:14,320
See. 
This, Oh my God, is. 

1390
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:15,480
That different right now? 
Oh. 

1391
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:17,240
My gosh. 
Donovan. 

1392
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,320
Donovan. 
Like Donovan could have been. 

1393
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,600
On this relay, he could have 
been on this relay and because 

1394
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:24,920
the outcome would have been 
different. 

1395
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:28,360
Well, so I mean, it's freaking 
crazy that we. 

1396
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:39,280
Yeah, oh Lord, so this this 4x4 
kicked off we had USA has like 

1397
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:41,000
is the most dominant team by 
far. 

1398
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:45,320
This is our event. 
This is this is the event, this 

1399
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:49,400
is the event that we always 
either win or if there's a freak

1400
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:51,440
accident we get silver or 
whatever it may be. 

1401
01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:55,720
All right, so you have Chris 
Bailey leading off. 

1402
01:15:56,680 --> 01:16:00,840
He's passing off to Demarius 
Smith, right? 

1403
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:04,240
And then he's passing off to 
Bryce Stedman, who's passing off

1404
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:07,800
to Genoa McIver. 
Chris Bailey has a, a strong leg

1405
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:10,720
where yeah, he's a, he has a 
relatively strong leg. 

1406
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,760
He doesn't hand off in first, 
but by the time he does hand 

1407
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:17,760
off, I think, you know, Prince 
is able to or Smith is able to 

1408
01:16:18,440 --> 01:16:22,040
get the baton, get the break and
maybe one team is ahead of him. 

1409
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:26,040
Now he's running relatively 
strong, But then he does start 

1410
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:27,840
to falter a little bit on his 
leg. 

1411
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:31,200
And by the time he hands off and
this is where the issue starts 

1412
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:34,840
to come in, He's slowing down on
his leg like the lactic is 

1413
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:38,240
starting to kick in and they're 
like in the middle of the pack 

1414
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,560
when they when they get to like 
202 fifty or so. 

1415
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:44,640
By the time they get to the 
handoff, you have a whole bunch 

1416
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:49,000
of guys, but particularly you 
have Zambia and the United 

1417
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:53,640
States right next to each other.
Somehow Bryce Steadman is about 

1418
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,320
to get the baton. 
Whoever for Zambia is also about

1419
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,280
to get the baton. 
But the guy for Zambia is 

1420
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:03,440
passing like diagonally. 
He there there's coming in from,

1421
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,320
you know, opposite directions 
and they're passing off. 

1422
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:10,760
So they kind of impede the 
United States, where Demarius 

1423
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:13,880
isn't able to hand off to Bryce 
Deadman as efficiently as he 

1424
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:15,600
would like. 
Bryce does eventually get the 

1425
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:19,800
baton, but it slows down, right?
And you could see the. 

1426
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:22,800
Watch on YouTube, we've got a 
photo of it on our screen and 

1427
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:26,920
it's just like absolute. 
Like literally it's like crossed

1428
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:28,320
in between. 
Like how? 

1429
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,040
Like. 
The evidence is right here in 

1430
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:31,160
4K. 
Yeah, like. 

1431
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:33,800
We are, we're, how are we 
supposed to make this hand off? 

1432
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,000
We're literally getting blocked 
off. 

1433
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:37,960
Like it's crazy. 
It's crazy. 

1434
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:43,200
So, but kudos to Bryce Steadman 
for getting the baton and going 

1435
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:44,320
out. 
He goes out really, really 

1436
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:45,320
strong. 
He realizes. 

1437
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:47,720
And Bryce Steadman is one of the
more experienced athletes. 

1438
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,520
He's been competing on the 
relays since 2021 at the Olympic

1439
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,200
Games, actually here in Tokyo. 
And he was just on the mixed 

1440
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:57,960
relay as well, gets out really 
strong also that lactic kicks in

1441
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,240
because at this point we are 
pretty far behind, you know, 

1442
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:05,360
when it comes to the lead. 
But Bryce gets it, gets, you 

1443
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:06,560
know, kicks things off on his 
leg. 

1444
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,960
He hands off. 
We're really, really far behind.

1445
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:13,640
He hands off to McIver and he 
similarly goes off really, 

1446
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:15,640
really strong. 
But that lactic kicks in and he 

1447
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:18,040
fades all the way back. 
And unfortunately, we, you know,

1448
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,440
we're relegated to the back of 
the pack and we don't qualify. 

1449
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,520
Yeah. 
So the United States ends up 

1450
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,680
finishing sixth. 
Yeah, which then, like, is a 

1451
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:28,640
total shock to everyone 
watching. 

1452
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,520
And we're like, what the heck is
going to happen? 

1453
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:34,120
Like we're like. 
We got, we got bullied in the 

1454
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:35,040
exchange zone. 
We did. 

1455
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:37,040
We did pretty much every single 
exchange zone. 

1456
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:38,520
We got bullied. 
We really did. 

1457
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:39,960
It was. 
It was wild. 

1458
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:42,760
And it it this. 
I'm just like, this shouldn't 

1459
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,280
happen, right? 
Like this should not happen. 

1460
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:50,360
I we have so much depth in the 
400 that it's insane. 

1461
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:53,720
I know that our individual 400 
guys didn't do as well in the 

1462
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:57,040
open, but it's like we still 
have so much depth that this 

1463
01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,240
shouldn't. 
Oh yeah, I mean, looking at the 

1464
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:03,240
talent that we have on the 
bench, it's just like this 

1465
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:05,560
shouldn't have been the team 
today to get this whole thing 

1466
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,760
done. 
Yes, I'll, I'll, I'll say I'm of

1467
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:11,320
the opinion that Vernon probably
would have been on this. 

1468
01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:14,520
I feel like he. 
I I'm so curious what the 

1469
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:19,520
decisions are that happened. 
Like, is it a situation where he

1470
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:22,160
collectively with like the 
coaches and the other guys 

1471
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:23,920
didn't want to run because 
that's Jeremy Warner? 

1472
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:25,960
Now coaching they. 
Thought yeah, yeah, we're by. 

1473
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:30,120
Sports Jeremy Warner is like. 
We just, but I guess ultimately 

1474
01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:33,200
it is up to the coaches to say 
who is running and who isn't 

1475
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:35,960
right. 
So, so you you kind of like the 

1476
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,920
the fault has to lay on that. 
Right, that's true. 

1477
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:42,120
Maybe there was a a level of 
confidence that it's like, all 

1478
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,840
right, we'll be able to safely 
qualify because it's like top 

1479
01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:48,480
three and you know, we'll be 
able to get top 3 for sure. 

1480
01:19:48,480 --> 01:19:50,360
I mean, maybe maybe that was the
case. 

1481
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:53,560
I I don't know but we shouldn't 
have been 6 but. 

1482
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:56,200
I will I will say, and this is 
going to sound like I'm I'm 

1483
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:58,840
being like defensive of the of 
the US and saying that like the 

1484
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:01,160
outcome should have been never 
anything different and I'm not. 

1485
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:04,520
But I do think that, and this 
goes for all of the teams, I 

1486
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:07,600
think it's unfair, is that the 
the lineup in the exchange zone 

1487
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:10,720
is set at 200 meters. 
And it doesn't make any sense 

1488
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:14,640
because there's so many position
changes over over the final 200 

1489
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:18,760
of each leg that the you, you, 
you'll sometimes have athletes 

1490
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:22,760
that are in like second place 
that fade to 5th at the 200 to 

1491
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,360
go on their leg mark. 
And so the, the officials will 

1492
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,720
line them up as second. 
So then you have athletes that 

1493
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:32,080
are running all the way across 
the, the final home stretch and 

1494
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,560
it, and it's just, it's chaos 
and you end up with situations. 

1495
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:37,760
This isn't as bad as they're, 
but these are they're, we need 

1496
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:41,480
to go back and watch 100 cuz 
like this could have maybe ended

1497
01:20:41,480 --> 01:20:43,240
up differently, but and they're 
right next to each other. 

1498
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:45,800
But the last year I remember 
being on Twitter going like, 

1499
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:48,400
what the hell is going on? 
Like or two years ago, it's 

1500
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,080
like, have we always been doing 
this? 

1501
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:53,000
Because you're looking at 
athletes run like from lane one 

1502
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:55,560
to lane 5 to find their teammate
and it's like, what the hell is 

1503
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,640
going on? 
I haven't seen like I've we've 

1504
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:00,240
been running track since middle 
school. 

1505
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:02,400
Practically, it's like I've 
never seen this before. 

1506
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:03,800
It's it's wild. 
It's wild. 

1507
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:06,040
I I agree, I agree. 
It's crazy. 

1508
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:07,840
And that, so I mean, we'll, 
we'll talk about it. 

1509
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:10,960
That's one of the things where, 
I don't know, maybe the official

1510
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:15,760
is at fault and you know, but it
does lead to so USA doesn't 

1511
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:19,120
qualify. 
And then we find out that 

1512
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:21,480
there's a protest. 
Yeah, there, there's some back 

1513
01:21:21,480 --> 01:21:23,720
and forth. 
Real quick heat too, goes kind 

1514
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,280
of yes. 
Plan Botswana, Belgium, Great 

1515
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:31,600
Britain, they make it through. 
Yeah, Jamaica ends up 4th, but 

1516
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:36,880
then all right, like then the 
United States ends up in like we

1517
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:40,320
joked about there being another 
World War when it comes to like 

1518
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:42,360
protests and all that kind of 
stuff. 

1519
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,800
Tonight we initiated 1. 
Literally. 

1520
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:48,440
Literally. 
So a few minutes after we find 

1521
01:21:48,440 --> 01:21:50,760
out that the United States is 
protesting, well, actually, I'm,

1522
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:54,280
I'm down, I, I go down to the 
mix zone and they run through 

1523
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,680
like the, the four by four guys.
They're just running through. 

1524
01:21:56,680 --> 01:22:00,920
And we find out from USATF that,
you know, they're potentially, 

1525
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:03,480
you know, they need to go find 
out if we can protest. 

1526
01:22:03,480 --> 01:22:07,520
So eventually a protest is put 
in for them to be able to, you 

1527
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:10,240
know, protest the impediment, 
you know, at the handoff. 

1528
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:14,960
It's officially filed and at 
that point we're waiting for a 

1529
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,600
while. 
So we don't have like any 

1530
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:20,040
updates or any new information. 
Everyone is just waiting. 

1531
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:22,640
TBD. 
There is a weird point. 

1532
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:24,600
I'm just like checking the the 
results. 

1533
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:28,880
It's at one point said the USA 
that USA was dequeued and then 

1534
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:34,120
it was reversed back. 
The second heat goes off if like

1535
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:37,200
they run and it's later shown 
that I think Brazil and 

1536
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:42,080
Australia were dequeued. 
And I say all this because as 

1537
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:45,320
we're waiting for the protest 
for the United States to, I 

1538
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:47,680
guess, like, you know, go 
through to get more information,

1539
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,560
I find out from USATF that 
there's like 7 different teams 

1540
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:53,280
that are protesting between the 
two. 

1541
01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:56,800
Heats everyone hates us. 
It's wild. 

1542
01:22:56,800 --> 01:23:00,760
So USA is just like the catalyst
for for all this, but it's like 

1543
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:05,120
Zambia's protesting, you know, 
apparently, you know, the United

1544
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:06,960
States, apparently Kenya is 
protesting. 

1545
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:08,320
All these kinds of things are 
going on. 

1546
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:14,360
So we eventually find out that 
the United States, well, I guess

1547
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:16,840
I don't know if it was like 
found out the United States was 

1548
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:20,840
not advanced right there 
protests or something wasn't 

1549
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:23,720
accepted. 
But then later on, I think they 

1550
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:30,280
appealed, you know, the, the 
decision eventually they, the, I

1551
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:34,040
guess the appeal is approved. 
But what turns out to occur is 

1552
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:39,760
that Zambia is DQ D They're 
disqualified and World Athletics

1553
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:44,400
puts out a release saying that 
Zambia impeded Kenya and Kenya. 

1554
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:45,680
Got brought into the whole 
thing. 

1555
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,480
And I'm going to be honest, I I 
didn't get a chance to watch the

1556
01:23:48,480 --> 01:23:51,680
full race back, but like, I 
don't know when that happened, 

1557
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:54,120
but it happened sometime during 
the race. 

1558
01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:58,200
So they impeded Kenya and they 
impeded the United States. 

1559
01:23:58,320 --> 01:23:59,560
Hilarious. 
Wild. 

1560
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,760
So because of that, Zambia's DQ,
but now we're going to have a 

1561
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:07,440
run off between Kenya and the 
United States. 

1562
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:10,640
Good old fashioned run off at 
what? 

1563
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:13,680
Let me see, what time is it at? 
I think it's 10:40 in the 

1564
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,200
morning here in the United 
States. 

1565
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,920
Yes, so a good like whatever 9 
hours or something like that 

1566
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:21,640
from now well the. 
Funniest part is, is that we we 

1567
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:25,720
posted about this run off and 
Chris Bailey is in our comment 

1568
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:28,920
section being like what? 
And it's like that's how one of 

1569
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:32,040
the guys in our 400 pool found 
out that there's going to be a 

1570
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:33,440
run off and. 
What's crazy? 

1571
01:24:33,440 --> 01:24:35,360
I think from my understanding 
like it. 

1572
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:36,880
Has to be. 
It has to be the same team. 

1573
01:24:37,440 --> 01:24:39,760
They're running in the same 
lanes like and again, this is 

1574
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:43,360
reminiscent of 2000 and, you 
know, 16. 

1575
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:47,080
OK, so we have this the video of
the OR the, sorry, the 

1576
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:51,360
screenshot of how Zambia impeded
Kenya on the on the screen here.

1577
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:56,440
And they're like pushing up. 
Against yeah, that's that's 

1578
01:24:56,440 --> 01:24:59,080
that's a pretty bad. 
This is like cotton 4K. 

1579
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:03,400
What are you expecting when 
there's a stadium full of 60,000

1580
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:05,400
people? 
Yeah, so Zambia was, I guess 

1581
01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:08,320
we're out to get everybody, but 
so we'll we'll have this run off

1582
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:11,880
just Kenya, just the United 
States, you know, the exact 

1583
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:14,000
same, you know, four guys on 
each team. 

1584
01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:17,000
The United States should run run
away from Kenya. 

1585
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:23,040
They they should. 
But but you're about to say but.

1586
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,360
I mean, but it's like on paper 
they should. 

1587
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:28,800
Exactly. 
It's exact. 

1588
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:32,520
Same guys, right and so they're 
now they weren't thinking of 

1589
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:35,000
this, right? 
They were ready to run one race 

1590
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,000
and that was it. 
Maybe some guys come back for 

1591
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,320
the final at night, but now they
have to. 

1592
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,680
Obviously they cool down, they 
have to wake up early in the 

1593
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:47,400
morning, warm up, be ready to 
run another unexpected race at 

1594
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:51,920
their best because whoever wins 
this race gets the last lane in 

1595
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:53,480
the final, which I think is 
going to. 

1596
01:25:53,480 --> 01:25:57,240
Be later on in the day. 
Later on in the day, right, so 

1597
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:00,240
you're talking about running 
within a span of 24 hours less 

1598
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:04,320
than 24 hours 3/4 by fours will 
be run, you know, hopefully by 

1599
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:05,920
the United States, right. 
We want to see them in the 

1600
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:09,840
final, but that's it's. 
Chaos. 

1601
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:13,240
Kenya's grabbing, but you need a
mic, you need to hold it up. 

1602
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:19,000
We're looking at Kenya is 
holding, so can't. 

1603
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:23,200
El baton or their, their jersey 
or whatever. 

1604
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,440
It's like, yeah, this is kind of
wild. 

1605
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:29,120
This is all kinds of like 
recklessness in between. 

1606
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:30,720
OK, this, yeah, this is pretty 
wild. 

1607
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:34,200
So the here's the thing, it's 
like if you're anyone, any other

1608
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:36,320
country in the world, This is 
why you have it after the United

1609
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:37,680
States. 
It seems like the scriptwriters 

1610
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:40,360
are really trying to force a 
wave to have the United States 

1611
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:43,640
in the final. 
Yeah, which, yes, it makes this 

1612
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:45,960
thing so much easier. 
Instead of Botswana just 

1613
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,720
stomping the ground and 
everyone, it's like you need the

1614
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:50,600
United States to be in the four 
by four final. 

1615
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:54,040
Yeah, yeah, they need to be. 
And and again, it's just these 

1616
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,640
same four guys have to wake up 
tomorrow morning to be able to 

1617
01:26:56,640 --> 01:27:02,440
run as hard as they can on on 
paper, Kenya did beat us in this

1618
01:27:02,440 --> 01:27:05,320
heat. 
So it's like, it's like. 

1619
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:08,200
There's on paper, yes, that did 
happen so. 

1620
01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:09,960
You know, whatever. 
I don't know, I don't know. 

1621
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:12,360
Kenny's feeling confident, but I
don't know. 

1622
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:16,320
I'm, I'm confident in in our 
guys to be able to to get this 

1623
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:18,040
done. 
But yeah. 

1624
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,000
Strap those spikes up, boys. 
Like. 

1625
01:27:20,440 --> 01:27:23,920
Keep going. 
Yeah, they got to put in work. 

1626
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,160
They got to put in work. 
Like this is this is it. the 

1627
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,240
United States has never missed a
four by four final at the World 

1628
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,960
Championships ever. 
Like just looking back through 

1629
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:34,200
history, ever. 
There's been some DQS throughout

1630
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:37,920
the years but like they've never
DQS in the final so. 

1631
01:27:38,480 --> 01:27:42,840
You missed that finals. 
I mean, stay, stay in Tokyo. 

1632
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:47,040
Like, I don't know. 
So that was the, that was the 

1633
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:50,640
relay drama, 4x4 drama, I mean. 
Excellent work, Anderson. 

1634
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:54,000
Because like I feel like over 
the last like 2 hours, like 

1635
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,600
there's been so much circulating
online and I was like, we need 

1636
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,800
someone to just like piece this 
whole thing together, explain it

1637
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:00,200
to me in like 10 minutes. 
Lower. 

1638
01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:01,440
Less than. 
Crazy, man. 

1639
01:28:01,440 --> 01:28:02,520
Thank you. 
It was crazy. 

1640
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:08,240
All right, Well, we've got one 
more day of action, right? 

1641
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,720
Last day tomorrow, wow, 
everything will be a final. 

1642
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:15,200
Everything's just a final 
tomorrow, one more day of action

1643
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,320
here at the World Athletics 
Championships. 

1644
01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:21,400
We had a super fun a comment 
come through, I think it was on 

1645
01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:25,520
the Spotify comments or an Apple
review saying it's like, you 

1646
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:28,400
know, there's nothing like 
waking up and watching the races

1647
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:32,360
and then just listening to all 
these post race shows all 

1648
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:34,840
throughout the afternoons. 
It feels like I'm watching or 

1649
01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:38,280
talking track with my friends 
and it's like, well, you know, 

1650
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:39,960
on our side of things, like 
that's what we wanted to 

1651
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:44,280
accomplish by doing these shows.
Yes, it's almost 2O clock in the

1652
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:46,080
morning. 
We're sacrificing sleep every 

1653
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:49,960
single day. 
We're talking like every single 

1654
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:53,320
time that we say like, hey, this
might be like a shorter podcast 

1655
01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:55,600
episode because we didn't have 
that much. 

1656
01:28:56,320 --> 01:29:00,400
We still end up being, you know,
chatting for 90 plus minutes. 

1657
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:03,040
Why do we do it? 
We do it because we have a love 

1658
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,360
for this game. 
We have a love for this sport 

1659
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:08,640
and we like sharing that with 
all of you. 

1660
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:13,680
So if you want to take the extra
30 seconds while you're 

1661
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:15,960
listening to this right now and 
if you made it this far, even 

1662
01:29:16,440 --> 01:29:19,560
leave us a five star view on 
Apple podcast or Spotify, it 

1663
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:23,480
will lift my spirits. 
And then subscribe on YouTube. 

1664
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,520
We've got plenty of people 
watching these things live. 

1665
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:28,680
We like interacting with people 
in the chat. 

1666
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,360
In addition to that, like 
corresponding with the 

1667
01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:34,760
newsletter. 
It goes out every single day 

1668
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:37,600
during a championship. 
David Mellie's been absolutely 

1669
01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:39,760
crushing that. 
And then just also in addition, 

1670
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:42,840
like the live social all 
throughout. 

1671
01:29:42,840 --> 01:29:48,840
So yeah, this has been a lot. 
We got one more day of it. 

1672
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:52,480
I'm hanging tough. 
I've been. 

1673
01:29:52,480 --> 01:29:56,240
And I couldn't imagine how much 
more tired I'd be if I was 

1674
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,280
running this whole entire time. 
So this knee injury has been a 

1675
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:03,440
blessing in disguise. 
I'm excited. 

1676
01:30:03,440 --> 01:30:07,080
One more day, straight finals. 
Let's do this thing. 

1677
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:11,360
I love track and field and we'll
see you guys again tomorrow.