2024 Prefontaine Classic Pre-Race Show ft. Nikki Hiltz, Val Allman, Hobbs Kessler & Michael Johnson
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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LIVE from Eugene, Oregon! Chris Chavez and Karen Lesiewicz are on-stage at Hayward Field for the 2024 Prefontaine Classic. We'll be previewing some of the day's best races, chatting with some of the athletes and doing fun giveaways with fans. Our coverage kicks off with the Pre-Show on the CITIUS MAG YouTube channel at 9:30 am PT on Saturday and 10 am PT on Sunday! Read our full preview of the meet here: https://citiusmag.com/articles/prefon... The TV window for Prefontaine is 4pm-6pm E.T. on Saturday, May 25 across NBC, CNBC and Peacock. Special thanks to TrackTown USA and the Prefontaine Classic meet organizers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. Shav is here. I'm Karen Lesowitz and welcome to Citius Mag live at the Pre-Fontaine Classic. We've got a good |
| 0:35.9 | crowd out here getting ready for tomorrow's loaded slate of races. Karen, this is your first time in Eugene. |
| 0:44.1 | This is my first time in Eugene, and that's a nice way to say I've never been to Nationals |
| 0:48.4 | as a former collegiate runner, but I've been enjoying it so much. |
| 0:52.4 | I think you messaged me yesterday, hey where you at? I was like well |
| 0:56.3 | I'm at pre's rock and then I just did pre's trail so |
| 1:00.0 | Everything pre everything pre-fante and classic so I'm immersed and I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:06.4 | We've got tons of great races coming up tomorrow. Is there one that you're looking |
| 1:12.1 | forward to the most? |
| 1:13.3 | Oh my gosh so many iconic races so much talent here I think you know who can't talk |
| 1:19.6 | about the big dance the big race when you even say you know which I know which one you're |
| 1:22.9 | talking about yeah you know which one I'm talking about and I am so excited to watch the |
| 1:26.4 | mile we've got some incredible talents here and I mean it's it's one-stop shop short |
| 1:31.1 | of like a world championship final yeah exactly |
| 1:34.8 | all right so today obviously there was a big press conference where it was American |
| 1:39.8 | record holder yard naguess right Olympic champion Champion, Yaku Bingabritsen, |
| 1:44.0 | world champion Josh Kerr, and there were some fireworks, not a ton. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, I think these guys are keeping the cards really close to your chest before tomorrow's |
| 1:53.8 | race. What did you make of just sort of the body language and what these athletes were |
| 1:57.4 | saying in the press conference? You know I thought it was interesting I think to me the most |
| 2:01.3 | noteworthy person there was Yard Nagoose just hanging back. |
| 2:04.3 | I think he's going to be that silent killer. |
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