Silesia Diamond League Preview, Who Still Has A Path To The World Championships Via Diamond League Wildcard/World Rankings + Fred Kerley Suspended For Whereabouts, Sha’Carri’s Apology + More

The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

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Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week, Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia unpack the top highlights from the Gyulai István Memorial in Budapest earlier today, from Oordegem, Belgium on Saturday, and more of the biggest shakeups in rankings that took place over the weekend.

We preview everything you need to know about the Silesia Diamond League, including the top athletes competing, matchups to follow, and records to watch for. We also dive into the latest drama in the track and field world, break down the qualification process for the World Championships, explain how the Diamond League wild card process works, and lots more.

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Hosts: Chris Chavez | ⁠@chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Preet Majithia | @preetmajithia on Instagram

Produced by: Jasmine Fehr | @jasminefehr on Instagram

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0:00.0	All right, it is August 12th. I'm Chris Chavez.
0:08.5	I'm Prit Mujithia.
0:09.7	And it's been a while since we've done this week in track and field because we went daily during the U.S. championships.
0:16.2	And then last week I dropped a bunch of interviews.
0:19.4	If you haven't already done so, you can go back and
0:22.6	listen to our episodes with Cole Hawker, Sage Herta Klecker, Cooper Blinken. We've got
0:29.1	his coach, Chris Capo. And yeah, there's more to come. I'm still scheduling a bunch of
0:36.4	interviews and the lead up to the
0:37.5	world championships. And it's, the pod is hot right now. So, um, be sure to keep your notifications
0:45.9	turned on, subscribe. Episodes have also been going up on YouTube. Um, I really appreciate and
0:51.7	love the comments that are left on there on YouTube as well.
0:55.4	So many ways to digest the Citius Mac podcast.
0:59.3	But today we are going back to our format of recapping all of the latest happenings,
1:05.1	including some news that dropped.
1:07.9	There was a crazy 10 minutes today.
1:13.8	I was watching the Continental Tour meet that was taking place in Budapest. And then Mondo breaks the world record in the pole vault for the 13th time
1:20.9	in his career. Very impressive and very cool that he was going for it. It's kind of like he's checking the boxes of like, well, you know, Worlds was hosted here in 2023 and I didn't get to do it then.
1:33.0	So might as well get to do it here.
1:36.7	And Chris in the stadium in a way.
1:39.6	And then once again, he's well clear of the bar.
1:42.6	Puma's going to have to pay out.
1:43.8	I love that Puma's leaning into the whole joke about how much they pay them each time he breaks these world records.
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