Allie Wilson On Her Mental Breakthrough To Qualify For Her First Olympic Team, Reflections On Her U.S. Olympic Trials Runner-Up Finish In The 800m | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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“I know I made the right decision, but I don't even think it was a matter of if I made the right or wrong decision because either way I was going to make it be the right decision. I was going to force it to be the right decision. I feel like that’s what we had to do. There were so many question marks coming into this year, this Olympic Trials. I literally made it be the right decision and I just believed in that so wholeheartedly and here we are.”
Allie Wilson joins us live in Eugene after her runner-up finish in the U.S. Olympic Trials 800m to qualify for her first Olympic team. Allie breaks down the chaos of the 800m final at the Trials + shares about taking a bet on herself by leaving her former track club and sponsor, why she decided to follow her coaches, how she’s been able to grow her confidence over the past few years, and lots more. Hear more about Allie’s incredible journey to the top in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Host: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Guest: Allie Wilson | @allie_oop9 on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | back live from Eugene Oregon, Chris Havas, Mitch Dyne, we're joined now by our next guest, |
| 0:06.3 | Ali Wilson, who just qualified for the Paris Olympics, I mean, me saying that, has that settled in yet? |
| 0:14.0 | No it's so I have no idea what it's gonna hit me but yeah |
| 0:18.8 | it's been the craziest last few days and like I'm so happy I'm so excited but I I don't think I've like |
| 0:25.0 | really processed it yet so yeah. |
| 0:28.3 | January I interviewed you at Dr. Sander and at that point like you still had like a unsponsored kit you |
| 0:36.3 | talked about just sort of like taking this bet on yourself leaving the situation |
| 0:39.6 | that you had last year following your coaches to Indianapolis and then you know eventually you win you |
| 0:45.8 | know US indoors sign a pro contract head off to the world championships get that sort of |
| 0:51.2 | experience the bet on yourself has truly truly paid off what is |
| 0:56.6 | kind of now that we're at this point could you imagine what you would have told |
| 1:00.9 | alley back in January about like how this was all going to go. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh my God, Chris, don't make me cry. |
| 1:07.0 | Everyone always thinks it already thinks I'm a big cry baby. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, even like thinking back to like this time last year there was so much up in the |
| 1:17.2 | air like we already knew my coaches were going to be leaving and we are all |
| 1:20.6 | dealing with and processing like knowing we're going to have to be making |
| 1:25.3 | that decision and you know what was the best thing to do and I think the being that |
| 1:30.3 | is the year before the Olympic year it was just like the decision |
| 1:33.6 | could not have been harder like I knew what I was going to be doing I knew I was |
| 1:37.3 | going with him but I also just like didn't know what that looked like I didn't |
| 1:41.5 | know how I was going to be able to like, you know, handle like moving, being a different environment. |
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