How Orlando Landed The 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials | Jon and Betsy Hughes of Track Shack

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"We wanted to do this for a long time because we knew Orlando can really produce what is needed both by the course, the staging area and the support from our running community, but also our entire community to really put forth a world-class event."

We finally have an answer on where and when the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials will be held as USATF and the USOPC announced we're headed to Orlando on Feb. 3, 2024. The trials are the event where the top three men's and women's finishers who meet the qualifying standards for the Olympics will secure their spots for the Summer Games in Paris. The race will be held in the street of downtown Orlando. I decided to give a call to Jon and Betsy Hughes of Track Shack to hear about some of the early plans since Track Shack is will be staging the event with help from the city of Orlando mayor, the Orange county mayor and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, I'm Chris Chavez and welcome back to the City of Smag podcast.
0:06.6	This is my show where I chat with some of the biggest names on the track, on the roads
0:11.2	within the coaching ranks and across the running industry.
0:14.4	Our guests sit down and open up in depth to share their experiences, brilliant insights
0:19.0	and vivid snapshots from their professional and personal accomplishments within the sport.
0:24.8	This episode is presented by the Running Event and Pacer Running's first annual for
0:29.7	every run film festival.
0:31.8	We've partnered with them to help them highlight and feature the best films, photos, podcasts
0:36.0	and articles from across the running world.
0:38.0	We'll be heading to Austin at the end of November to help them pick the winners.
0:41.4	So if you're a content creator, head over to foreveryrunfilmfestival.com to enter work
0:47.0	that you might be proud of.
0:48.4	In addition to the best films, we're highlighting photo of the year, podcasts of the year,
0:52.6	long form and short form written content.
0:55.1	It's free to enter and some of the highlight of finals would push to a creative database
0:58.8	which is shared with marketers, brands, agencies and others within the running industry.
1:04.2	Although the deadline has passed, I still highly encourage you guys to enter.
1:08.2	Head on over to foreveryrunfilmfestival.com today.
1:13.4	My guests for this episode are John and Betsy Hughes of Trackshack because we finally have
1:18.6	an answer on where and when the US Olympic marathon trials will be held.
1:22.2	As USATF and the USOPC announced that we are headed to Orlando on February 3rd, 2024,
1:29.2	the trials are the event where the top three men and women's finishers who meet the qualifying
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