Kenneth Rooks After Winning The 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials In The Steeplechase To Qualify For His First Games | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Former NCAA national champion Kenneth Rooks won the U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a fierce kick and led a 1-3 BYU finish with James Corrigan. Rooks earned his second U.S. Championship title and his first U.S. Olympic team berth. He joined Chris Chavez, Eric Jenkins and Mitch Dyer on Good Morning Track and Field on Day 5 of the U.S. Olympic Trials from Eugene, Ore.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, we're going to play musical marks here. |
| 0:02.0 | All right. |
| 0:04.0 | Kenneth, here you guys. |
| 0:05.0 | Kenneth. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, here he is. |
| 0:08.0 | Nice and early joining us for the morning show. |
| 0:10.0 | Uh, Kenneth, first off congratulations |
| 0:12.6 | olympian how's that feel has it settled in yet? |
| 0:15.2 | I think it's still settling in a little bit it's exciting and it was really |
| 0:20.0 | exciting to go through team processing yesterday and to like try on all the |
| 0:24.5 | uniform and all the like the opening ceremony and closing ceremony stuff and all |
| 0:29.4 | the other all the other it was really yeah so it's been exciting but still settling it yeah I mean |
| 0:34.3 | first Olympic team I'm sure that feeling never you know is going to settle for you |
| 0:39.7 | yeah work that you've put in to get here obviously like talk about what this moment |
| 0:43.8 | means to you in terms of the sacrifices that you've made and everything you've put into now |
| 0:47.2 | become an olympian well you know it means a lot you know I guess it just makes me grateful for everyone who's helped support me in the process. |
| 1:01.6 | I've put in a lot of work myself but like I wouldn't be here without like all the people |
| 1:05.8 | who supported me like everyone who's helped me stay healthy especially this year like I've |
| 1:10.6 | had to deal with a few little foot injuries which has been very frustrating and so |
| 1:15.5 | I'm just grateful for all the like everyone who's helped me like stay healthy and get back and also just |
| 1:21.6 | my wife and my family and everyone else who's helped |
| 1:25.1 | support me along the way and coaches and yeah I'm just I'm just really grateful |
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