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Hey everybody, welcome to All Have Another Podcast with Lindsay Hein.

I am your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful that you're here today.

Today I'm bringing you a little bonus episode.

I was excited to read an article floating around the internet and I wanted to bring the

conversation onto the podcast.

Peter Bromke and Esther Atkins wrote an article about the Olympic Trials marathon and

the qualifying time there's going to be some discussions going on with USATF about what

that's going to look like for 2024.

The article that they wrote is on Medium and it's called What is the US Olympic Trials

Marathon?

This is a really well thought out article.

It talks about the Olympic Trials qualifying standards and what that would mean for the

sport if those standards change if they do in fact get faster.

And it also talks about the significance of what the Olympic Trials was in 2020.

So many men and women on the streets of Atlanta and how exciting the sport has become

and how the number of Olympic Trials qualifiers definitely had a big impact on what that did

for our sport and how that will change if less people are able to run this prestigious

race.

I had some questions.

I could go either way on if I think it should be tightened or not.

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