INTERVIEW: Valarie Allman After Defending Her Olympic Gold Medal In The Discus, Why This Medal Means More
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Valarie Allman just became the first American woman to win back-to-back gold medals in the women's discus. She took the lead with a 68.74m throw that put her in first place and she never relinquished it. She had four throws that would have won the competition. Her best throw went 69.50m, which won the competition by nearly two meters.
We had a chance to speak with her and coach Zebulon Sion at Asics House in Paris just two days after her historic victory.
HOSTS: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
GUESTS: Valarie Allman | @vallman123 on Instagram
We’re excited to have a full CITIUS MAG team on the ground in Paris providing daily live shows before and after the action, including interviews with competing athletes, our TORCH TALK recap show, and the return of GOOD MORNING TRACK AND FIELD. Make sure you’re subscribed to the CITIUS MAG YouTube channel for live shows.
Subscribe (and share with your friends!) to the CITIUS MAG newsletter for daily newsletters in your inbox after every day of track and field competition: https://citiusmag.beehiiv.com/
_________
SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS:
👟 Powered by Asics.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | All right, Chris Chava is here, joined by the one and only two-time Olympic |
| 0:06.9 | champion Valerie Allman and coach Zebulansyan just days after winning here at the Paris Olympics. |
| 0:15.0 | Don't leave him hanging. |
| 0:16.0 | I can't leave you in sorry. |
| 0:18.0 | After that intro? |
| 0:19.0 | I mean, come on. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.0 | Okay. There you go. All right, what are the feelings in like, I guess, how have you been processing just the emotions of the last 48 hours essentially? |
| 0:30.0 | Emotions are definitely high, Caffeine is definitely high. |
| 0:33.1 | I feel like I'm at that point where it's just you're kind of like going |
| 0:36.2 | with the flow at this point. |
| 0:37.7 | But I definitely, I feel just really grateful, |
| 0:42.0 | you know, to put so much hard work and sacrifice into |
| 0:45.0 | something and have it just align and go your ways. It feels really |
| 0:48.6 | validating and I'm just grateful I get to be here with my family with Subulon and enjoy the moment. |
| 0:55.0 | The big thing I guess for you that you've highlighted about this getting the most out of this Olympic |
| 0:59.6 | experience was the fact that it feels totally different from Tokyo in the sense that like the crowds are full and you know |
| 1:06.6 | You're coming at it with a different sort of mentality what was that mentality coming into the competition this time around where yes you were the reigning Olympic champion but there have been bumps along the road in the last couple years and so how did that all of that play into your mindset coming into this Olympics? |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, I mean I think motivation can come from a lot of different places and that really is what I felt going into |
| 1:31.2 | the schemes. I definitely had a lot. is what I felt going into this game's. |
| 1:33.4 | I definitely had a lot of pride to want to earn the title again, |
| 1:38.3 | but at the same time I knew that what was actually |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CITIUS MAG, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CITIUS MAG and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.