Kendall Ellis Fulfills A Dream By Winning The U.S. Olympic Trials 400m, Back-To-Back PRs | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE

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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

“It was really just keeping that hope alive, telling myself over and over again: it’s going to happen when it needs to happen. God made me who I am and when it’s supposed to be, that’s when it’s going to be. No earlier, no later.”

Kendall Ellis joins us live in Eugene to share about her trajectory over the past six years + how she was finally able to have a breakthrough personal best to win the Olympic Trials 400m in 49.46. She shares about how she’s stayed patient while continuing to build confidence, how she prepared for the Olympic Trials, how she blocks out the noise of her competitors’ performances, other 400m legends that she looks up to, and lots more. Hear more from Kendall in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.

Hosts: Katelyn Hutchison | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@_kxnaomi on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + Anderson Emerole | @atkoeme on Instagram

Guest: Kendall Ellis | @kendi_kendall on Instagram

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you're
0:05.0	feel fans I am here with Anderson and the Kendall Ellis give her a round of applause
0:09.6	Anderson yes of course if y'all don't know who she is, she is an Olympic champion, but now she can
0:15.6	add U.S. champion to her lovely resume. She's had a couple of collegiate records. She's a national champion for the
0:22.4	NCA. Now she's a national champion for the NCA, now she's a
0:23.4	national champion for the US. She's about to make her way to the Olympics and
0:27.1	whoops some, but are you ready Kendall? I'm ready with an intro like that.
0:30.8	Okay, let's go. Actually, your fight is right now.
0:33.6	We got the plane out for it, so we're gonna see y'all later.
0:35.9	We gonna have that baby.
0:38.0	Nice, well, Kendall coming off the national title,
0:40.8	not only a national title, but personal best, back to
0:43.6	backgrounds. I mean, how did you make that happen?
0:46.1	I keep saying it, just pure belief. Like, I kept telling myself in the
0:50.6	blossom, like, why not me? Why not me? Someone has to win why not me. Why not me today?
0:55.2	So just really gunning for it.
0:57.2	Like I've seen what I've seen in practice.
0:58.7	My coach has seen things and we were like,
1:01.6	you know, you're on track for it.
1:02.8	So it's just up to you to go out and do it.
1:04.8	But that was six years in the making those.
1:06.7	So I mean, that took a lot of patience and like dedication.
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