Fred Kerley's Big Bet On Himself Pays Off, Qualifies For Paris Olympics With Third Place Finish In 100m At U.S. Olympic Trials | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
“I will forever bet on myself no matter what. If my gut is telling me something’s going wrong, I'm going to make sure it’s going right. I'm always going to bet on myself no matter what… And that’s been paying off my entire career."
Fred Kerley joins us live in Eugene after finishing third in the 100m at the U.S. Olympics Trials to book his ticket to another Olympic Games. From switching events to switching sponsors to trusting his fitness, Fred Kerley is always going to bet on himself. Fred shares about how he’s built unshakeable confidence in his abilities, what in his training indicated that he was capable of qualifying for the 100m, his goals for the Olympics, what he thinks it’ll take to win Olympic gold, and how he manages pressure. Hear more from Fred and what’s ahead for his career in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Host: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Fred Kerley | @fkerley99 on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are back, C-S-Mag live from Eugene, and we're joined by a very special guest, |
| 0:09.6 | the one and only Fred Curley, Olympic Silver medalist, 2022 world champion and now returning |
| 0:16.1 | back to the Olympic Games in the 100. |
| 0:19.8 | I mean I want to start with just the fact the last time I saw you in New York like |
| 0:23.4 | essentially you took a huge bet on yourself that bet paid off massively here at the |
| 0:30.2 | you know US Olympic trials how are you feeling after everything? |
| 0:33.0 | I feel like I feel been a good position for I forever better myself no matter what and I |
| 0:40.1 | know the right way to go and if my gut telling me something is going wrong |
| 0:44.8 | I'm gonna make sure it go right so I always gonna bet on myself no matter what yeah |
| 0:50.1 | have you always been a gut check guy I always been a gut check guy? I always been a gut check guy. |
| 0:53.2 | I know when stuff is going wrong |
| 0:54.8 | and I know what, if my guts ain't telling me |
| 0:58.8 | it don't feel good, it's not gonna feel good. |
| 1:01.3 | But I know once I would get in a position I'm always going |
| 1:04.6 | better on myself no matter what and better myself been paying off my whole entire career. |
| 1:09.1 | Before this I guess like this is a pretty long layoff we saw between races what was sort of the |
| 1:16.4 | fitness and practice telling you you know that you were capable of before New York |
| 1:21.1 | and then coming out here you you know there's a couple extra more weeks of |
| 1:24.5 | training. Well I know I'm gonna say what this weekend on to find where I |
| 1:28.4 | actually been doing the training was just get the job done get top three and go train for what's going to be the big show is Olympic Games. |
| 1:37.6 | The tweet, the famous tweet. The next time I touch the 100 world record translated for me like I guess what exactly you mean? |
| 1:45.0 | I haven't touched the track yet to tell you the truth. |
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