Gabby Thomas' Gold Medal Hopes For Paris After Winning The U.S. Olympic Trials, Being A Face For The Sport's Newest Ventures | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“It’s bigger than me. It’s about my purpose and what I want to show in track and field, what I want to show people who are watching, and the younger generation. It’s about that. If you get caught up in, ‘I need to prove to everyone that I belong here and deserve this,’ it’s not really about that.”
2x Olympic medalist and 2x world medalist Gabby Thomas joins us live in Eugene after defending her Olympics Trials 200m title to secure her spot on another Olympic team. Gabby walks us through the sequence of her 200m rounds, why she decided to go all-in on the 200m for the Olympic Trials, how she handles the pressures of racing, her purpose for competing, her goals for Paris, and how she hopes to inspire the next generation. Hear more from Gabby and her incredible journey in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Anderson Emerole | @atkoeme on Instagram + Katelyn Hutchison | @_kxnaomi on Instagram
Guest: Gabby Thomas | @gabbythomas on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Citius Mac live from Eugene, Oregon. We've got some New Balance royalty in the house. |
| 0:17.0 | Gabby Thomas, the Olympic Bronze Medalist, World Championship, Silver Medalist, and your U.S. Olympic Trials champion. |
| 0:24.4 | She has a degree from Harvard. |
| 0:26.2 | Oh yeah, of course. |
| 0:27.8 | A master's degree from Harvard. |
| 0:31.8 | Just stacking degrees and medals in your career. |
| 0:34.6 | Gabby, how are you feeling after just sort of the whirlwind of the Olympic trials? |
| 0:38.2 | Relieved, honestly, it's the first word that comes to mind. I'm really happy and I'm really proud |
| 0:43.6 | and I love the 200 meter team that's coming to Paris with me, |
| 0:47.0 | but I can breathe now. |
| 0:49.3 | Like, it's been a really tough couple of weeks |
| 0:51.4 | here in Eugene, as all the athletes can imagine and so to come across |
| 0:54.4 | and make the team but also to defend my title. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm just like, oh thank God. |
| 0:59.2 | So what about it has been so if it like just being out out here like being away from people like like |
| 1:04.0 | what what about you gene makes people go insane I think it's like trauma it's like |
| 1:11.4 | this is where we come for like national championships. It's like you know we come here for Olympic trials every year so your mind like automatically knows like you're coming here to be stressed out. You know like you know that you know you're coming here to be stressed out you know like you know that you know you're coming here to focus like there's nothing else to do but to like get ready to run and for Olympic trials for me like this like you're here for a while at least I was because I want to make sure |
| 1:33.6 | that like I'm ready and so I was here for two weeks like and I can't do anything but |
| 1:37.3 | like relax and stay disciplined and focus so I learned how to make bread I |
| 1:42.1 | watch Netflix. |
| 1:43.0 | You didn't teach you. I'll teach you it's so much easier than you think girl. |
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