John Nunn on race walking, earning respect, Russian doping and growing the sport
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of the City Smack Podcast is brought to you by We Run New York. |
| 0:05.0 | We Run New York is a documentary series that's currently in production and it shares the stories of New York City's running scene. |
| 0:11.0 | I can personally attest that life in New York can sometimes be |
| 0:13.5 | pretty challenging and being a runner in the city is even harder. But there's a huge |
| 0:19.0 | subculture of people who make it a priority and who thrive in the environment and it's those stories that the series is going to |
| 0:24.6 | aim to tell. I know that they're dedicating a whole episode solely to coach Gags, |
| 0:30.8 | you know the Bronx native who coaches New York as well as another episode to a group of |
| 0:36.5 | Ethiopian immigrants who live about 8 plus to an apartment and live on just prize |
| 0:41.5 | money that they win. The team behind it is the duo of |
| 0:46.1 | former 800 meter all-American term filmmaker Harry McPann and his friend and |
| 0:50.8 | former teammate Paul Snyder now of City Smag Fame. |
| 0:55.0 | That team is passionate about the sport in the city so I'm really excited to see the |
| 0:58.4 | episodes which are slated to start rolling out later this summer. |
| 1:01.8 | You can check out we run New York's website at |
| 1:04.4 | www dot we run New York show.com or follow them on Twitter or Facebook for |
| 1:11.1 | updates as they get the project underway. |
| 1:13.2 | If you have any questions about the project, direct them that way. |
| 1:16.2 | Today's guest on the show is three-time Olympian race walker, John Nun. |
| 1:22.2 | Let's start the show. and Oh, All right now we're joined by Olympian John Nunn on the |
| 1:57.6 | city of smag podcast. John, how's it going and where are we at right now in |
| 2:02.2 | terms of training and I get the focus for 2017. |
| 2:06.4 | Yeah, hey, thanks Chris. It's going great. Right now, we just finished up indoors. |
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