Nico Young After Making The U.S. Olympic Team In The 10,000m | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
“I definitely feel like having that success indoors with the two titles helped me gain confidence in my ability to close down a race and win a race in any way. Whether it’s a fast race, slow race, I'm equally as confident. For the rest of the outdoor season, it definitely helped me be not as concerned as the gun went off that I was going to be able to close well off of any kind of race.”
Newly minted Olympian Nico Young joins the show after qualifying for his first Olympic team in the 10,000m at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. He also just announced signing a professional contract with adidas. Nico unpacks his third-place finish in the 10,000m, recaps his incredible NCAA season, shares about his excitement for Paris, breaks down his Mount Rushmore of NAU distance running legends, and lots more. Hear more from Nico in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Guest: Nico Young | @nico__young__ on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are back day four of Sidious Mag, live from Eugene, Oregon. |
| 0:06.6 | Chris Chavez, joined by Eric Jenkins, my co-host for today. |
| 0:10.3 | And we've decided that at this point, like if you make the US Olympic team, |
| 0:15.0 | you always have a seat here on our set to join us for a chat |
| 0:20.0 | and to celebrate in qualifying for the Paris game. |
| 0:25.0 | So today we are joined by one of the first people to do it at these trials, |
| 0:29.6 | NAUs Star and now we just put out the news on Instagram before this an Adidas athlete |
| 0:35.8 | Nico young Nico first off congrats on on all of this just making the team |
| 0:41.2 | signing that contract lots of excitement right now. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah thank you it's been an insanely exciting weekend. We sat down with your |
| 0:50.3 | brothers the day right after you made the team and when they made it up here |
| 0:55.4 | they were just like oh I mean like we haven't even gotten a chance to like really see him |
| 0:59.1 | and talk to him how emotional of a past like, you know, 72 hours has this all been? |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, it's been crazy. I mean, yeah, from finishing the race till now, I kind of have been doing |
| 1:11.0 | stuff non-stop. So I got to see Lexin Leo yesterday |
| 1:15.0 | though so that was pretty great but yeah it's I hasn't really set in yet. |
| 1:18.6 | What did how did you feel like the race was going to play out? |
| 1:23.1 | Did you think that, had you planned for a lot of different race strategies? |
| 1:28.2 | Did you think that it was going to be kind of a slower race with, you know, a hard move at the end? It was a weird one. Yeah, did it play out, you know hard move at the end it was a weird |
| 1:33.2 | yeah did it play out you know we a little surprised by that actually I kind of feel like it |
| 1:38.6 | it played out sort of what I thought was going to happen okay I guess Woody and I were talking about it beforehand |
| 1:44.6 | and we thought it was going to be moderate. |
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