Matthew Wilkinson's Journey From Division III to Paris 2024 – Finishes 2nd In U.S. Olympic Trials Steeplechase Final
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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“When he made that move, I was like, ‘I gotta stick close to him and he’s going to take me to Paris. I thought I made a hard move doing a 63 (lap) with three out, and he comes by me going 59 and I was like, ’That’s world-class.’ when that happened, I was like, ‘There’s no way I'm going to beat him, but if I can stay as close to him as possible, I don’t think anyone’s going to beat us.’”
From Division 3 to Olympian! Matthew Wilkinson joins the show after taking second in the U.S. Olympic Trials steeplechase to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Matthew breaks down the steeplechase final, shares about other steeplechasers that he looks up to, what his goals are for the Olympics + the rest of his season, and lots more. Hear more from Matthew in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Matthew Wilkinson | @silkywilky1123 on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | We're back, we're back, C.S. Mac, live from Eugene. We've got another fresh |
| 0:06.4 | Olympian with us. Matt Wilkinson of Dark Sky distance, well, Mission Run Dark Sky Distance. I'm sorry, I gotta going to go, mission run, dark sky distance. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm sorry, I got to get the full name in. |
| 0:15.1 | Under armor, mission run. |
| 0:16.3 | There we go. |
| 0:16.9 | Oh my gosh, man. |
| 0:18.9 | You know what? |
| 0:19.4 | I'm walking off the set. |
| 0:21.8 | Congratulations. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you, thank you. |
| 0:24.0 | Have you slept? |
| 0:26.0 | A little bit. |
| 0:27.0 | A couple hours, but you know, there's a couple strong hours. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah. You only make your first Olympic team once. |
| 0:34.0 | You might as well. |
| 0:35.0 | You can go one night without a little bit of sleep. |
| 0:38.0 | The thrill of making the team, I mean, we see it from just sort of like the expression on your face and all of the finish |
| 0:43.4 | line photos like it was just coming down that home stretch like what were the internal |
| 0:48.8 | thoughts at that point? |
| 0:49.8 | uh... don't fall and just run through the line because you know I figured that there's going to be people kind of right behind me |
| 0:58.7 | fighting for that team. I was able to put a little bit more distance on them than I thought at the end there but once I got over that last barrier clean |
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