Nia Akins After Winning The U.S. Olympic Trials 800m Final + Confidence Ahead Of The Paris Olympics | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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“Coming in here, I was confident in my training and what we’ve done and I felt ready, but also I felt like maybe everyone was feeling that way – so it was important to show up, take care of business, not sleep on anybody, and make it through the rounds as safely as possible.”

Nia Akins joins us live in Eugene after winning the 800m title at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. Nia breaks down how she approached the 800m rounds at the Trials, how she stayed composed during the 800m final when chaos broke out, shares about how she gained confidence heading into the meet, how she and coach Danny Mackey structure her training + competition schedule, and lots more. Hear more from Nia in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.

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Guest: Nia Akins | @nia_akins on Instagram

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0:00.0	All right, we are back here at Citius Mag, live from Eugene, Oregon, and we're joined by the U.S. Olympic Trials, 800-meter champion,
0:16.6	three-time U.S. champion now, and officially headed to your first Olympic Games, Nia Aikens.
0:23.2	Yeah. I, has it been just like a whirlwind of the last, what, 48 hours now?
0:30.9	It's definitely been a whirlwind. There's been a lot going on, but it's been really fun and yeah, this, you know, you never know if this is something like this is going to happen again. So just trying to take it in stride.
0:43.6	Yeah, so when you got over here, you know,
0:46.2	it's just sort of like there's always athletes,
0:49.0	you know, hanging around in Eugene,
0:50.4	just kind of locked in at the very beginning and then afterwards now you've got
0:53.8	huge smile on your face like the weight has been lifted off your shoulders I guess
0:58.1	like what can you describe sort of what that's like I guess coming into you know a US trials where everyone's gearing up for
1:05.3	this like for the last couple years and you got it done.
1:08.7	Yeah there's just there's so much talent and depth in the US like across all events, but yeah the 800's definitely one of the deepest events I think so coming in here I
1:22.4	Was confident in my training and what we've done and I felt ready but also
1:28.6	I felt like maybe everybody was feeling that way so it was really important to just kind of show up, take care of business and not sleep on anybody
1:38.7	and make it through the rounds as safely as possible and yeah then just kind of like race give it all I
1:44.8	got emotionally and everything for the final and just see what happens.
1:48.2	So we've been doing that Beast's unleashed series on the YouTube channel and it goes all the way back to you know the
1:56.1	team meeting where everyone's kind of sitting around and kind of you know talking
2:01.0	about just coming off of last year looking ahead to this year
2:04.9	when did sort of you and coach Mackie sit down and kind of like map out this sort of
2:10.4	season and what were sort of the goals that you set out?
2:13.6	Yeah, we mapped out the season,
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