Juliette Whittaker and Isabella Whittaker On Making The Olympic Team Together As Sisters | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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“I'm still processing everything. It still very much feels like a dream. I keep telling everyone that every morning I’ve woken up since the race, I keep having to check my phone, check the date, and make sure I’ve already raced and that it’s not coming up. I was like, ‘Wait, that actually happened, right?’ I feel like for me it’s been a lot of processing, a lot of pinch me moments, but a lot of joy.”
Sister duo Juliette and Isabella Whittaker join us live in Eugene after their breakout performances at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. Juliette qualified for her first Olympic team by placing third in the 800m and Isabella took 6th in the 400m final. The sisters share about how they were able to split their focus between the NCAA season and Olympic Trials, how they manage nerves before their races (and each other's races!) and lots more. Hear more from Juliette and Isabella in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Host: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Juliette Whittaker | @jwhittaker22 on Instagram + Isabella Whittaker | @b_whit215 on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to Citius Mac live from Eugene, Oregon, and we've got another slate of guests who have just electrified Hayward Field and just got through team |
| 0:16.4 | processing so the family's going to Paris so we've got Juliet and Isabella Whitaker here. |
| 0:24.0 | Take me through, I guess, like the last couple of days, just like this emotional roller coaster for the family. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, I think for me I'm still processing everything. |
| 0:33.6 | It's still like very much feels like a dream. |
| 0:35.3 | I keep telling everyone like every morning that I've |
| 0:37.4 | woken up since the race. |
| 0:38.7 | Like I keep having to check my phone and like check the date and |
| 0:41.6 | make sure that I have already raced and it's not like coming up because I was like. and like |
| 0:43.4 | check the date and make sure that I have already raced and it's not like coming up because I was like wait that actually happened right so I feel like for me it's been a lot of just like processing a lot of pinched me moments but a lot of joy. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah and also just four days of racing like I think it's been a lot of stress on our family because it's definitely pretty you know anxiety-inducing like having you know both of us competing and then three rounds for both of us so |
| 1:03.6 | it's just been a lot of times where you've had to like come back down after a race |
| 1:08.1 | after a round so it's been super exciting in the like Whitaker household but also like |
| 1:12.4 | super stressful. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, that's right. Were you guys able to watch each other's races in a stadium or were there times |
| 1:17.4 | were like both live the whole time? So it depends. So the first like round one I had to watch like in the media tent for Juliet and then ever since then I think I saw your final I guess |
| 1:32.0 | Semi is also similar. Oh no I saw your semis as well so yeah everything except for the first round |
| 1:39.0 | to yeah I'm able to see a person I think you saw saw the first in the stadium because yeah after my race I would just go like pre-flush out, pre-cool down sometimes. I just go and watch her and then go back out. |
| 1:51.5 | All right, we have to talk about the final. |
| 1:53.8 | Like, for, that's I think the first thing we need to start with |
| 1:57.1 | is just sort of how dramatic and chaotic it was, |
| 2:00.7 | and like, I've gone back and re-watched that race, like two, three times, just trying to make sense of everything but |
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