INTERVIEW: Cole Hocker Breaks Down Epic 2024 Olympic 1500m Final To Win Gold In 3:27.65
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Eric Jenkins sit down with Cole Hocker, the new Olympic 1500-meter champion.
Cole takes us through his unforgettable race at the Paris 2024 Olympics, where he outmaneuvered world champion Josh Kerr and Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in a dramatic final lap. He shares insights into his training, the crucial moments of the race and what it feels like to bring home gold for Team USA.
We also discuss his journey from making his first Olympic team while at Oregon and growing on the global stage and where he sees the men's 1500m going from here.
Join us to hear firsthand from one of America's brightest stars in middle-distance running and learn what it takes to reach the pinnacle of the sport.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Chris Chavez, Eric Jenkins, live in Paris, and we're joined by the Golden Boy, the Olympic champion in the 1500 meters, Kohlhocker. |
| 0:11.2 | Has that settled in yet. |
| 0:12.6 | I know you're being like you bopped around to like media |
| 0:15.6 | and doing all the stuff, but the fact that you are the Olympic champion. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah, definitely has not set in. |
| 0:21.0 | I've spent like five hours through interviews yesterday kind of talking about it and |
| 0:26.4 | thinking about it, but I still feels like it's not real even though like this has been the dream |
| 0:32.0 | but still feels like it is still a dream. |
| 0:34.8 | You actually blacked out right like in the final 100 meters you asked like the people in the |
| 0:39.7 | mix zone when they asked you about like going in on the inside you're like oh it opened up like so |
| 0:45.2 | what do you remember? Yeah I was just telling my buddies about that too because that was a funny part of the interviews where, yeah, I think Gull asked me, he was like, |
| 0:56.0 | how did you know the inside would open up? |
| 0:57.8 | And I was like, well, it opened up and then he closed it down. |
| 1:02.4 | And so I kind of had to like find a new game plan and yeah in my |
| 1:07.4 | head I think I went around Inga Britson on the outside which is just crazy to me and obviously I've watched the replay now and I can kind of see where I made the decision I start to almost make the decision to go outside and then I'm like oh, he opened it up again. |
| 1:22.8 | But yeah, I somehow did kind of black out. |
| 1:25.7 | Like to us, that's the craziest part I think |
| 1:27.4 | about the final hundred meters. |
| 1:28.8 | It's like, yes, you had like the fastest split |
| 1:31.3 | for the final hundred, which was like 11 flat and then but on top of that |
| 1:35.9 | like there was you hit the brakes it was such an insane last hundred because like you |
| 1:40.7 | you came off I can't remember where it was where it was like 120 like 100 |
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