Josh Kerr Breaks Analyzes 2024 Olympics 1500m Final + Where Jakob Ingebrigtsen Went Wrong
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Chris Chavez and Eric Jenkins sit down with Great Britain's Josh Kerr, the 2023 World champion who captured the silver medal in the thrilling 2024 Olympic 1500 meter final. Josh takes us inside his race strategy, sharing how he kept pace with Jakob Ingebrigtsen's world-record pace and the battle with Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse down the home stretch. He breaks down the race in detail, where he believes Ingebrigtsen went wrong and overall reflections on an unforgettable night in Paris. Powered by Asics.FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are here joined by 2023, 1500 meter, world champion, and now 2024 Olympic silver medalists in the 1500, Josh Kerr. |
| 0:11.8 | In addition to his 2021 Olympic bronze medal just stacking |
| 0:15.8 | metals now Josh you look like you barely slept but it's been I guess three guys you look absolutely terrible but guess |
| 0:26.2 | what we're here it's like three days since this race how have you gone about |
| 0:31.1 | processing it yeah I think you, after each championships has been completely different, obviously in 2021, you know, COVID stuff, everything was on Zoom and then in 23, like, you know, being able to get shipped everywhere and then here's |
| 0:43.4 | so obviously the atmosphere is pretty crazy a lot of companies have put a lot of money |
| 0:46.8 | into different structures and so I haven't really stopped since but I'm yeah I'm |
| 0:50.9 | having a good time it was the greatest Olympic 1500 meter |
| 0:55.2 | final ever you know from your vantage point what are you gonna remember the most from |
| 1:00.6 | this race I do I mean something that will never leave me is when my |
| 1:04.3 | hearing went at 500 in and I was like damn we must be running pretty quick. |
| 1:09.4 | Normally that would happen to me after the race like during my views if I ever sound like I'm deaf that's why your hearing is actually going yeah it just goes really so loud in there I was just so focused on the floor I was like just like I just want to go to go to my happy place for a little bit. |
| 1:24.2 | I was like I'm going to have to I'm going to have to weather this like world record |
| 1:27.3 | attempt storm right now and then see if I've got some work left in me in the last 500 and I did but it's going out that hard |
| 1:34.6 | it's like you got to just really just lock in and just get on the rail and going to sleep. |
| 1:38.8 | Race plan wise like was this exactly what you expected I mean a lot of people the thinking was |
| 1:44.4 | for yachup to try and win this thing he would have had to pull from the front |
| 1:47.5 | and that's what he went out and tried to do yeah yeah I think it was the first time |
| 1:50.8 | I've ever like ran with plan A plan A was just get out reasonably well, sit on the rail and go to sleep the first 800 |
| 1:58.1 | and wake up and get to work in that last 600. |
| 2:00.8 | So that was the plan. You know I was at 600 ago at any opportunity if it was |
| 2:06.6 | the time to take it on then I was going to and but you know in the first K or so it's just |
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