Dylan Beard On Working At Walmart While Contending For The U.S. Olympic Team | CITIUS MAG LIVE IN EUGENE!
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
“The absolute goal is to make the Olympic team. I’m still working my job at Walmart five days out of the week. I got a little bit of time off for this situation right here to make the team. Ever since Millrose, ever since the Today Show, I’ve been working. I’ve still got to provide for myself to compete, travel, meals and everything.”
Dylan Beard, Millrose Games 60m hurdles champion and second-fastest 110m hurdler heading into the Olympic Trials, shares about how he balances work while competing, his passion for the sport, his mindset on racing, and lots more. Hear more from Dylan Beard in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
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Guest: Dylan Beard | @thee_dylan on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right. We are joined now by Dylan Beard who shocked the world at the |
| 0:07.1 | Milrose Games and then is coming in with the second fast as the second |
| 0:10.6 | fastest 100 meter 110 hurdler here at the US Olympic trials |
| 0:15.0 | Dylan thanks for pop and mite as Citius Mag Live and Eugene. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh my pleasure thank you for having me. |
| 0:20.0 | So you made an appearance I think what was a today show, |
| 0:23.2 | or like Good Morning America, one of those morning shows |
| 0:25.4 | and kind of shared your story went viral during Milrose Games |
| 0:30.3 | because you opened up about just like the jobs that you were working outside of |
| 0:34.2 | track to support this essentially the Olympic dreams so catch us up I guess what is |
| 0:39.6 | the status of just sort of your career right now just both on the track and off the track to get to this point |
| 0:47.5 | That's a I guess that's a lot of it was the long story is the long story we've got time |
| 0:53.0 | I mean as right now, just, you know, I'm here. |
| 0:56.0 | Obviously the goal, absolute goal is to make the Olympic team. |
| 0:59.0 | But just that I still work my job at Walmart, you know, five days out of the week. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean I got a little time off obviously for this situation right here, make the team. |
| 1:09.0 | But I've been ever since Milrose, ever since the Today Show, ever since whatever I've been working, |
| 1:15.4 | you know, I still got to provide for myself to compete, travel, meals and everything. |
| 1:21.5 | So that's just what I've been doing and then consistently been on the track. |
| 1:24.2 | I mean it's a lot better now since I have to you know I get to compete now. |
| 1:27.3 | So everything's just been it just works out I mean honestly doesn't feel any |
| 1:31.8 | different you know whether people know or don't know that I'm working It just works out. Honestly, it doesn't feel any different, |
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