2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Pre-Race Show | Top Athletes and Storylines To Watch

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday, Feb. 3, Orlando will host the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. The top three men and women who have met the qualifying standards and criteria will be named the U.S. Olympic team for the Paris Games.

This race features the first head-to-head matchup over the marathon distance by American record holder Emily Sisson and former record holder Keira D'Amato. Five of the six members of the 2020 Olympic team are back as Galen Rupp, Molly Seidel, Aliphine Tuliamuk, Jake Riley and Abdi Abdirahman return to try and make another team. Conner Mantz and Scott Fauble remain two of the most consistent American men of the last Olympic cycle. CITIUS MAG's team (Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, and Eric Jenkins) will preview all the top storylines and athletes to watch. Read our full previews for the elite races: https://citiusmag.com/ Show presented by HOKA | Stay up to date on the latest news and promotions from HOKA. Check them out here: https://www.hoka.com/

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0:00.0	What is up?
0:02.0	What is up YouTube?
0:05.0	Welcome to Orlando.
0:06.7	Citius Mac coming to you live from the Citius
0:09.4	Cafe presented by Hoka here in Orlando. I'm Chris Chavez 259 Marathon are joined by my co-host and
0:19.3	colleague. We'll start all the way down on that side.
0:23.5	We've got two-time NCAA champion,
0:26.5	Wanna Maker Mile champion, World Championship qualifier
0:31.3	Eric Jenkins in the house. Eric, how you do here? Championship qualifier World Relays Champion 352 Myler in the pre-Super Shoes Spikes era and the guy who thought he might be
0:46.8	racing on Saturday but then realize it's a little bit harder to run 218.
0:50.9	Kyle Murbert in the house.
0:52.7	I don't know if that's entirely true,
0:55.2	but I'll take it, I'll take it.
0:56.6	All right, so we are here in Orlando.
0:58.7	It is 10 a.m.
1:00.6	In 48 hours, the race will be underway the conditions are nice right now for all
1:06.8	the talk that weather dominated in the months leading up to it pretty solid racing great
1:13.9	spectating conditions very good day drinking conditions for the fans yeah I got
1:19.2	an I got an inch right but it's perfect condition that seems like it's beautiful.
1:24.4	Well, I think that all right, just to touch, like this is a party and that's, that's,
1:28.9	it's a competition, it's very important, we have to select the U.S. Olympic Marathon team, but for the amount of fans that are just coming in and watching and the amount of other athletes cheering on teammates, it's the amount of brands that are here like it's an
1:44.9	industry celebration of the sport and it's a lot of fun I got actually an email
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