2026 Millrose Games Preview LIVE From The Armory: An All-Time Great Two-Mile, Wanamaker Miles + Event-By-Event Preview
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
The indoor season is already on fire and now it’s time for the 118th Millrose Games at the historic Armory.
We’re LIVE from New York with a CITIUS MAG Millrose Games Preview Show, breaking down everything you need to know before the fastest, deepest, and most tradition-rich meet of the 2026 indoor season.
Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Eric Jenkins, Aisha Praught-Leer, and Anderson Emerole dive into the biggest storylines, must-watch races and athletes.
What we preview:
• An all-time men’s two-mile field that could threaten history
• NCAA phenoms Doris Lemngole and Jane Hedengren colliding with pros in the women’s 3000m
• U.S. vs. Europe in a loaded men’s 800m
• The first-ever CITIUS MAG–sponsored women’s 1000m
• Jess Hull, Nikki Hiltz, Sinclaire Johnson and Dorcus Ewoi are chasing the win in the women’s Wanamaker Mile
• Yared Nuguse going for four straight titles in the men’s Wanamaker Mile
+ More
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How to Watch Millrose Games: The professional events begin Sunday, February 1 at 4:00 p.m. ET, airing live on NBC & Peacock.
Our full written preview on CITIUSMAG.com can be found here.
We’ll be on-site all weekend with live coverage, post-race interviews, and a full post-meet show dropping Sunday night.
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| 0:38.1 | city of smag analyst crew. We got Eric Jenkins, Aisha Pratt Lear, Anderson Emerald, and welcome back, |
| 0:45.3 | Kyle Murber. I was here last week. All right. We've got the Milrose games on tap this weekend. |
| 0:52.2 | Best meet of the indoor season. |
| 0:55.6 | Overall, how are we feeling about the vibes? |
| 0:57.3 | Aisha, you're fresh off the plane, right? |
| 0:59.2 | I came directly from the plane to the car. |
| 1:02.3 | Now we're at the club, and it is popping in here. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:06.0 | Millrose Games is my favorite track and field meet in the world, maybe. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm excited. brings back memories brings |
| 1:14.1 | back great memories it's always fun here at the Armory Energy's Electric everybody all the |
| 1:20.8 | competitors are here getting their pre-meat in so tension's high in here but it's going to be a banger tomorrow. |
| 1:28.8 | Anderson, you got the chance to be at the press conference yesterday. What is the general feel from the athletes so far? The athletes are loving it. They hooked them up with like Wheaties, boxes from Milrose, the whole situation. It was pretty dope, but now I'm excited. This is like the meat. It's the indoor meat. Kyle, I guess, would it like, I guess it would be back out of track meet after not showing your face for a while. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah, I got egg is like the meat. It's the indoor meat. Kyle, I guess what's it like |
| 1:44.5 | I guess to be back at a track meet after not showing your face for a while. Yeah, I got egged on the way in. There's protesters outside. That was for me, I think, yeah. But we persevere. No, it's great. I always like the day before. I feel like you're at the racetrack. You're watching the horses to just trot around right before the race, |
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