EP3: Heroic Pole Vault WR, DQ for “jostling” & Rick’s Anime Fascination

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Fitness, Running, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Day 3 of 10 Days in Tokyo! In this special limited series of The Running Channel podcast, Sarah, Rick and Andy unpack all the action from the World Athletics Championships - along with exclusive behind-the-scenes insights from the team.

Mondo Duplantis stunned a sold-out stadium by claiming his third consecutive outdoor World Championships gold and setting his 14th world record in the pole vault. Meanwhile, Cole Hocker (who Rick tipped to win the 1500m) was disqualified for ‘jostling.’

'What do the podcast team do in their spare time?' we hear you ask... Well, Rick spent the day immersing himself in Japanese culture, learning about Anime, the hand-drawn and computer-generated animation style that originated in Japan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Day 3 of 10 Days in Tokyo of the Running Channel podcast with me, Andy Badly.
0:14.0	Me, Sarah Hartley.
0:15.0	Soshitwutashi Riku Kelsey.
0:18.0	If you can speak Japanese, please email it in to let us know how, I was going to say accurate,
0:25.8	how inaccurate Rick's attempted self-introduction.
0:29.3	The way you said your name is beautiful.
0:30.8	Yeah, Riku, Rikyu Kelsey.
0:32.3	Thank you.
0:32.9	I want to know how accurate that was.
0:34.1	I think that really surprised you.
0:34.9	Oh, it's so good.
0:35.8	I love how it took Andy three attempts to say welcome to day three, whereas you just nailed that.
0:41.3	Japanese.
0:42.3	Did you nail it though?
0:43.3	We're here in Tokyo.
0:44.3	Oh my goodness, you can let me go.
0:46.3	Kenishua.
0:47.3	We are here in Tokyo.
0:49.3	Onigaisimas.
0:50.3	Oh my God.
0:53.3	We're here to talk about our experience over the last 24 hours in Tokyo, all of the incredible
0:58.0	action on and off the track and loads of stuff that you may or may not have seen on the television
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