Emma Coburn Recaps Her Experience In The Broadcast Booth At The U.S. Olympic Trials + Steeplechase Analysis | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Emma Coburn re-joins the show to recap her experience in the booth at the U.S. Olympic Trials with NBC. She shares her analysis from the prelim of the women's steeplechase + shares insights on how those races compare to the Olympics/World Championships stage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Citius Mag live from Eugene, Oregon, Khrushchev and Eric Jenkins, |
| 0:05.2 | joined by the one and only Emma Coburn, who I guess like we could add now just like |
| 0:09.6 | NBC Cameo broadcaster to the resume. |
| 0:13.0 | How do you think it went? |
| 0:13.8 | I had so much practice with you guys that I felt good. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, it was fun. |
| 0:18.3 | It was the fact that it was a prelim was nice, relaxed, easy practice but I got to just hang out with Kara and |
| 0:26.8 | chat and I didn't get too nervous and hide under a table and throw a mic at her |
| 0:30.3 | which was my fear so nailed it. I think like being surrounded with like |
| 0:34.9 | Kara and the NBC team probably made it just so much more comfortable right? |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah the wild thing though is all the when you're wearing the headphones all the stuff that the |
| 0:44.4 | producer is saying and then there's a guy with a whiteboard that just like leans over |
| 0:50.3 | and shows you what all the last splits were like every lap split and what |
| 0:53.4 | pace they're running and then another person pops in with a note card to tell you |
| 0:59.3 | a stat about this person and fun fact or then when there was the fall in the first heat they're |
| 1:07.0 | like all right we're going to cut your mid sentence and they're like we're cutting to the replay of the fall and then you have to just obviously Lee and |
| 1:14.8 | Care have so much experience that they were fluid but you have to just not like |
| 1:18.4 | oh okay what do you say like but it was it was fun to see behind the scenes a little bit |
| 1:24.6 | But everyone was very nice and welcoming and it was easy |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, so overall great experience and had a lot of fun |
| 1:31.0 | Would you do it again for the final or two? |
| 1:33.5 | I have not been invited to do the final, the deal. |
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