INTERVIEW: Yared Nuguse Recaps His Bronze Medal Finish In Epic 2024 Olympic 1500m Final
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Team USA's Yared Nuguse sits down and chats with CITIUS MAG after taking third for bronze at the Paris Olympics 1500m final in 3:27.80 – just 0.01 seconds behind Josh Kerr. Nuguse lowered his personal best by 1.23 seconds.
This is the first time since 1912 that two American men finished on the podium at the Olympics.
This was Nuguse's first Olympic medal. He joins Grant Fisher, Kenneth Rooks and Hocker as the breakout American stars who have medaled at the Paris Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | Citius Magg live in Paris, Chris Chavez and Eric Jenkins, and now we're joined by Olympic |
| 0:06.7 | 1500-meter bronze medalist Yard Nagoose. Yard, congratulations on an epic performance in that final to come away with your first Olympic |
| 0:17.2 | medal. |
| 0:18.2 | What are the feelings? |
| 0:19.2 | It's been 48 hours or so since then? |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, yeah, I think we're just cussment on two days now. |
| 0:24.7 | And I think still a little surreal and just very, very exciting. |
| 0:29.6 | I've got to watch that race pack a couple times now |
| 0:31.7 | and I'm just like, man, I can't believe I did that. |
| 0:34.3 | Like that was literally just me a couple days ago just like putting my whole soul on the |
| 0:39.1 | track just to see what I could do. So no, it's still just super awesome and I'm still pretty |
| 0:43.8 | pumped how much of it it wasn't kind of like an out-of-body experience in that final |
| 0:49.1 | lap or so because even in Cole recapping it in the mix zone and I'm sure that's when like the |
| 0:56.7 | feelings are most raw it blacked out essentially in the final hundred for you did was |
| 1:02.2 | it similar yeah I think I had a similar experience just |
| 1:05.7 | because I think when things are going well it's like very easy to just like |
| 1:09.1 | stay in the zone just like not even think about what's happening. |
| 1:13.0 | But I just remember like 200 meters to go just being like one like |
| 1:17.8 | oh coal is here awesome and then two just like wow like I feel actually |
| 1:22.4 | really good |
| 1:23.0 | compared to like how I've been feeling like in other races lately. |
| 1:27.2 | So I'm just like, I feel like I could really just go for it right now. |
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