Chari Hawkins On Qualifying For The U.S. Olympic Heptathlon Team After A LONG Journey Since 2016 | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
“Especially seeing people who were young and doing track now, to kind of be like, ‘Listen. You CAN do it, even if it takes you 20 years,’ because I’ve actually been doing track officially for 20 years.”
Chari Hawkins joins us live in Eugene to share about her path to becoming one of the world’s best heptathletes. She chats with us about how she’s stayed patient while working her way to the top, the bond and sense of respect that she shares with other heptathletes, how she structures her season to optimize her world ranking, advice for younger athletes, and lots more. Hear more from Chari on her powerful story in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Guest: Chari Hawkins | @_charihawkins on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning everybody, track and field fans out there, once again coming at you from the morning show here, |
| 0:17.0 | outside Eugene, Oregon, inside Eugene, Oregon, outside Hayward Field. |
| 0:21.0 | You got that one mixed up. |
| 0:22.0 | Only been doing this almost every morning. |
| 0:25.0 | We're all here. |
| 0:26.0 | We're so excited. |
| 0:27.0 | We have an incredible guest and I think we're excited here for the morning. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, so we're joined now by Shari Hawkins who just qualified |
| 0:35.5 | for her first Olympic team brought the hardware and everything. Last year's a |
| 0:39.3 | world championship finalist and just incredible. |
| 0:43.5 | I mean the emotion pouring out of you at the finish line |
| 0:45.9 | was so incredible to watch. |
| 0:49.9 | I guess like you've seen all the photos plastered everywhere. |
| 0:52.3 | You were still crying in the mixed zone, crying. |
| 0:54.8 | There's a lot of tears. |
| 0:56.0 | I would probably cry today, I'll be honest. |
| 0:58.2 | I was, I actually got set a photo of two photos, |
| 1:02.4 | one of my sister, and posted she was like here this was 11 |
| 1:07.0 | years ago at Shari got and it was like a big thing and it was like Shari went 55 like 60 and took like 11th at |
| 1:16.2 | Nationals like we're so proud of her and it was like me in like my little |
| 1:20.6 | Utah State like Jersey at Hayward Field and then like she's like this full circle |
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