Anna Hall After Qualifying For Her First Olympics + Winning The U.S. Olympic Trials Heptathlon – Six Months After Knee Surgery | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
“This year has just been so, so hard. My coaches and those around me can attest to that. There were a lot of days where I was like, ‘Track’s not fun anymore. Is this worth it? I don’t think this is going to work.’ The emotions coming from there to be like, ‘Wow, we really did this’ just all flooded out of me.”
Anna Hall joins us live in Eugene after winning the heptathlon title at the U.S. Olympic Trials, less than a year after undergoing knee surgery. Anna chats with us about the obstacles she overcame over the past few months to become the U.S. champion, the emotion she and her family shared together post-competition, and even gives us a peek inside her journal where she captured her thoughts throughout the meet. Hear more from Anna on her incredible comeback in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Host: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Anna Hall | @annaa.hall on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Like you're wasting time trying to find your place in line you need to get your thoughts |
| 0:06.4 | on and oh so take some time and understand time understand |
| 0:14.0 | that life is race |
| 0:17.0 | for each and every man |
| 0:20.0 | sometimes people |
| 0:21.0 | we treat you like one out you, but they don't know |
| 0:27.0 | that you can lose. |
| 0:30.0 | Come and be a winner.'re a winner, now you're a winner. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, baby. |
| 0:50.0 | Come and be a winner. All right, we are back, Citi's bag, live from Eugene. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm joined by the one and only Anna Hall who can now add |
| 1:04.3 | a Olympian to her resume yes how does that sound? |
| 1:09.3 | It doesn't really sound real yet like every time I say it or someone else says it. I'm like oh yeah like that did happen so it definitely hasn't set in yet, but I'm super excited |
| 1:19.0 | The emotion at the finish line like it's in all of the pictures it was like as soon as you cross the finish |
| 1:26.2 | line it was just all pouring out of you like what just led to that outburst yeah I think just how hard this road has been. |
| 1:35.0 | I actually started getting like emotional |
| 1:38.0 | after the javelin and then I was like, |
| 1:40.2 | you can't like feel like this, |
| 1:42.0 | you still have to run, like I have to finish it but yeah this year's just |
| 1:46.8 | been like so so hard and I think my coaches and those around we can kind of |
| 1:50.8 | attest to that like there were a lot of days where I was just |
| 1:53.2 | like tracks not fun anymore like is this worth it I don't think this is going to work and |
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