Recapping the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Madness - What a Race!
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🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Matthew Luke Meyer unpack all of the madness from the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta.
Galen Rupp took the win on the men's side by pulling away after 21 miles to win his second consecutive U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials title in 2:09:20. Jacob Riley ran the race of his life and pulled one of the ballsiest moves by snatching a tiny American flag with less than half a mile to go. Abdi Abdirahman hung on for the third spot and qualified for his fifth Olympic team at the age of 43.
Aliphine Tuliamuk won the women's race after surging ahead at Mile 20 to win in 2:27:23 and head to her first Olympics. Molly Seidel, who had not run a marathon in her career but was an accomplished cross country and 10,000m star at Notre Dame, was the runner-up in 2:27:31. She will also head to her first Summer Games. Sally Kipyego returns to the Olympics as a mother for the first time. In 2012, she won an Olympic silver medal in the 10,000m while representing Kenya.
We recap the races, break down the biggest surprises, why we overlooked the people who ended up on the team and where we go from here. Also, the Chonky Bois were out in full force.
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| 0:00.0 | back. We were so wrong. |
| 0:05.0 | Honestly? |
| 0:07.0 | On everything. |
| 0:08.0 | On everything. |
| 0:09.0 | I think the only thing that we were correct about was that it was going to be a hard race and that Galenrup was going to make the team |
| 0:16.8 | Yes and Chunky Boys would be out in full effect that That's the yeah, everything else I was I was out but I'm not even mad. Oh no no no it made for the most wild and exciting race I had I was out at a bar watching this whole time and someone was someone like hollered in the back and they're like, |
| 0:36.7 | Math is the last time I listen to any of your podcast predictions. |
| 0:41.6 | Like, and this, clearly were we weren't the only only ones though like I don't think anyone |
| 0:46.8 | So I held a little bit of a prediction contest with a couple of my friends where we each you know put down five bucks on the men's race, five bucks on the women's |
| 0:54.8 | race, and you got to make three picks on both sides. |
| 0:59.8 | Person with the most picks, correct, would win the pot and the winner was me the tiebreaker |
| 1:06.8 | was the men's winning time and I went with two ten low or something like that and I was I won because everyone only had |
| 1:19.3 | one person and it was either Galen or Sally Kippiego and I won because I had the |
| 1:26.2 | closest men's winning time so that's literally the most unpredictable but yet |
| 1:30.6 | thrilling races we have very so see it lived up to the hype like it was |
| 1:34.8 | amazing from start to finish a grind a what's the term you say like a like a |
| 1:40.4 | a butter churn or I don't know something it just like kept going over and over and like |
| 1:45.9 | everybody we were all watching I was like we just wait for that third loop wait for that third loop and then it's like |
| 1:52.4 | Yeah then the race really unfolded. |
| 1:54.0 | But before we get into our race analysis, Matt, |
| 1:58.0 | I've got a little bit of a gift for you. |
| 2:00.0 | For me? |
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