Cathal Dennehy on the atmosphere of 50,000+ people at a track meet in Kenya

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It's rare that we see track and field stadiums packed with 50,000 to 60,000 fans for a meet when someone like Usain Bolt isn't competing but it happened over the weekend. At the 2017 IAAF U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, fans shattered attendance records to watch the future stars of the sport. I wanted to know more about the atmosphere and feel at the stadium so I dialed up my good friend and fellow track and field journo Cathal Dennehy to discuss his experience at the championship. Cathal and I crossed paths when I first went out to Europe to cover the track circuit in 2013. As a freelancer writer, his work is everywhere from Runner's World, The Guardian, Run Blog Run, SPIKES and many other other places. He went viral on the internet with his "Depths of Hell" play-by-play call from an Irish championship and even made an appearance on "The Dan Patrick Show." You can find Cathal on Twitter: @Cathal_Dennehy The latest episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast is now up on iTunes. Subscribe and leave a five-star review.

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0:49.0	is Kyle O'Donohie, who is freelance track and field journalists, and just covered the U.A.
0:54.5	team world championships in Kenya.
0:56.8	So I gave him a ring.
0:58.0	I'll start the show. Oh, All right, welcome to another episode of the CDS MAG podcast.
1:26.5	This one's a little bit of a bonus one, a little surprise we had in the middle of the week.
1:30.5	You just had the episode with Dathan Ritzenine, but I'm going to start doing more episodes with people who aren't really athletes or coaches, but there's still personalities within the sport and know it pretty well.
1:42.0	So without further ado I've got
1:44.2	Cathal Dunnehi here from his work has been in the Guardian, Running Times,
1:50.6	Runners World all over the place. He's a freelance journalist from Ireland so
1:56.7	welcome to show and first off I guess I gave a little bit of a brief introduction there, but for those
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