E49: Summer Olympic Games - Paris 2024

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We are right in the thick of Olympic athletics action and on the eve of the Olympic Marathon in Paris.

In this week’s episode of Marathon Talk, Martin & Deena take a look at their favourite Olympic moments so far, including the swimming, cycling, triathlons and track races.

They review the upcoming marathon’s key contenders and the heartbreaking withdrawal of Team Great Britain’s Charlotte Purdue before shining the spotlight on our own 2004 Athens Olympic Medalist…!

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

2:23 - Martin & Deena delve into the Olympic swimming, cycling and triathlon events so far including performances from GB’s Alex Yee and Beth Potter.

6:38 - Next up, we’re onto the performance of the track and field events including the 10,000m race with Uganda’s first Gold Medal, and 100m races with Noah Lyles phenomenal achievement.
22:50 - Then into the upcoming Olympic Marathon with our predictions and one’s to watch in both the men & women’s races.
30:26 - Finally we interview our very own Olympic Marathon Medalist - Deena herself! Who shares what it takes to become a medalist and provides her top tips for preparing.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 49 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:07.0	This week we are right in the thick of Olympic athletics action and we'll pick our favorite moment so far.
0:14.7	Plus we are on the eve of the Olympic marathon in Paris, August 10th and 11th.
0:21.7	We'll take a look at the key contenders and the heartbreaking withdrawal of
0:26.1	team Great Britain's Charlotte Cardo in the marathon and this week we turn the
0:30.9	spotlight on my Olympic marathon experience and what it takes to become
0:36.8	a medalist.
0:37.8	All right, Martin, let's go.
0:38.8	Martin, what have you been up to? You look very relaxed and in a new place.
0:46.0	So I'm away on holiday. I'm in Portugal, actually, which is really lovely.
0:51.0	So I've just rushed back from a restaurant remembering that we were going to record and now I'm sat in my room trying not to sweat too much because it is boiling whilst recording with you.
1:05.0	Yeah but it's all good. I've been running a few times and actually borrowed a
1:10.3	bike and went cycling and the sea is beautiful so I've been in the sea a few times.
1:15.2	Well good and I've actually been watching the Olympics but more about that in a moment.
1:19.2	Yeah so it's so exciting your views from your place right now, your office, we'll call it your
1:25.2	office for the day. Your views are beautiful and you've run back from watching
1:30.0	Olympic coverage to be able to record before you run back to watch more Olympic coverage. It has been such a great week. That's really all I've
1:38.7	been sitting in front of the TV. This is our very first Olympic experience with a television. We got a
1:45.6	television in November so the television has been on from morning tonight
1:50.5	like just constantly even if we're rewatching events, but it has been, France is really putting on quite a show with the fans, the stadium for athletics has been packed with the swimming finals have been amazing and I guess
2:07.2	we'll put some news in here we'll jump to we'll jump to some news with a little jingle and really get into the thick of the Olympic spirit. The Olympics opened up with swimming as usual the first week was everything
2:28.8	swimming so many different events and it was a big draw in the stadium in the arena that they were
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