January 2020 Recap: Coronavirus Cancels Indoor Worlds, VaporFly Regulations, Olympic Track Year Begins
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Matt Meyer recap all the news and top stories from the running world in January 2020.
It's an Olympic year and we're already getting hit with doping violations involving major stars like Wilson Kipsang. Coronavirus has led to the cancellation of the World Indoor Championships, which were slated to be held in Nanjing, China. World records fell.
We touch on the best performances from the Houston Half Marathon, Dubai Marathon, Rock 'N' Roll Phoenix. We hit the best track performances from the Dr. Norbert Sander Invitational in New York City and the New Balance Boston Grand Prix.
We touch on Edward Cheserek's decision to run for Kenya. We were treated to the news of the Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele showdown in April.
Yes, we talk about the major Nike VaporFly shoe debate that continues to be a topic of controversy. This podcast was recorded before World Athletics has released its findings and recommendations for new regulations. RIP Chonky Bois (aka the AlphaFlys). We barely knew you.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are here in New York City in my apartment and the apartment below me is apparently having |
| 0:08.5 | karaoke night. I'm joined by Matt Meyer, my co-host from the Roberta Growner episode, a guest on the runners of |
| 0:14.2 | NYC episode, and just an overall big track nut. |
| 0:17.2 | Matt, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:18.3 | Chris, I'm just delighted to be here. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah, it's pretty a lot of fun. |
| 0:22.2 | We've got this nice background sound in the base like underneath you. |
| 0:24.5 | Honestly it's just kind of kind of underscore this entire discussion. Yeah and so what |
| 0:31.3 | are we going to talk about? Well every month I think Matt and I are just going to do a podcast where we just geek out on all the latest and biggest running news of the month. |
| 0:38.5 | Who would have thought that I wouldn't like I shot you with text earlier today today I was like, all right, let's do this podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | And then I realized just how much happened in January. |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, the fact that it's an Olympic year that... |
| 0:52.0 | It's only going to amplify it even more. It's only going to amplify it like I don't know maybe |
| 0:55.2 | maybe maybe it was the fact that December was kind of kind of low I mean nothing |
| 1:01.6 | huge happened but everything is just really getting rolling this month. |
| 1:07.0 | I saw a tweet just yesterday that was talking about just how you know know, there's just what's going on in this |
| 1:15.1 | account. Let me find it exactly because it was pretty funny and I |
| 1:18.7 | retweeted it from the Sidious mag account and I was just like this league because |
| 1:22.4 | that's what people say about this |
| 1:24.0 | league about the NBA or like the NFL when anything goes crazy and it just for the |
| 1:29.6 | first time I was like man this applies to tracks it was like what finally it was from like a |
| 1:33.9 | British Twitter account they said blime you what's next for athletics state |
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