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Welcome to episode 96 of Coach Bennett's podcast. That's right. 96. You know what happened in

1996? I'll tell you know what happened in 1996?

I'll tell you something that happened in 1996.

I got to go to the Atlanta Olympics.

Yes, I did.

Two days of track and field in hotlanta back in 96 with some of my family.

It was amazing.

The track and field in front of 100,000 people was just mind-blowing. And as a geek, a complete and total runner, I got to tell you, it felt real good

to see 100,000 people cheering on track and field. Real good. But I'll'll tell you what I was in the stadium

the Olympic Stadium and it wasn't actually the track and field that was the

highlight of my time in the stadium during all of the track and field I'll tell you

what was actually two really big highlights. All right.

One of them was we had binoculars because we're nerds and we saw a group of Ethiopians.

And they looked like track athletes because they were all in their track suits and they stand out because of the green, the yellow, and the red that they had on.

And my younger brother and I, we were there and we're complete dorks.

And we were looking, we're like, do you think Hyley Geber Salasi is over there?

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