16-Year-Old Quincy Wilson Reflects On His Record-Setting Experience At The 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials + Why Team USA Should Pick Him For The Relay Pool | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“Coach Joe Lee, he kept me on a level-mind: ‘Just go out there and run your race. You’re just as good, you’ve done so many things. Just keep focusing.’ That’s what I was doing. I was focusing on the race and what I could have done. When I came out of lane two, I was like, ‘You’ve only got one chance. This is the last final. This could be your last open 400 of the season.’ I gave it everything I had.”
High school phenom Quincy Wilson joins us live in Eugene after setting the U18 400m world record in back-to-back races at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials + placing 6th in the final. Quincy shares about how he studies his competitors to improve his own tactics, his progression from last season to this season, and his case for why USATF should select him for the 4x400m relay pool. He also shares about his love for video games. Hear more from Quincy in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Katelyn Hutchison | @_kxnaomi on Instagram + Anderson Emerole | @atkoeme on Instagram
Guest: Quincy Wilson | @_quincy_wilson on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Seems like you've been wasting time trying to find your place and line you need to get your |
| 0:08.6 | thoughts on and oh oh so take some time to understand |
| 0:17.0 | that life is raised |
| 0:19.0 | for each and every man |
| 0:22.0 | sometimes people we treat you like one out |
| 0:27.0 | you but they don't know that you can't lose Come and be a winner, no, no winner. |
| 0:44.0 | Your winner now. |
| 0:47.0 | Now you're a winner. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, baby, come and be a winner. |
| 0:58.0 | All right, welcome back to Citius Mag, live from Eugene. |
| 1:06.6 | We are here with a very, very special guest, almost like family at this point, because we've |
| 1:11.6 | been covering you for the last two years. |
| 1:13.9 | You know, it's been really awesome to see just sort of this whole story book just that you've put together |
| 1:22.0 | over the last like two years and it's been awesome. |
| 1:24.0 | Quincy Wilson everybody, the man who has just been lighting up social media. |
| 1:29.0 | I mean, how has this all been, this whole entire trials experience? |
| 1:34.0 | I mean I've been loving the fans loving the crowd coming to Eugene you know last year a lot of people don't know I came |
| 1:41.3 | I went to you 20s last year and I ended up getting fourth and I didn't run the best final and they told me there was just like my coach said in the same position will be back next year stronger and better and I can say |
| 1:54.6 | for sure like the people that were in that U-20 race all of them I was able to I ran |
| 1:59.7 | faster than the times all this year and so that's the hard work that I put in and it's just like in a year |
| 2:04.7 | and just trusting the training trusting my coach and so I came back a year later and I was |
| 2:09.6 | way better than what I was. |
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