SPRINT Season 2 | Episode-By-Episode Recap And Review [Your Unofficial Companion Podcast]

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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia review the second season of the Netflix documentary series, SPRINT. We share our thoughts and analysis on all four episodes and break down the top storylines throughout the season. You can listen to our review of the first season of SPRINT here.

Hosts: Chris Chavez | ⁠@chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Preet Majithia | @prm_32 on X

Time stamps:

1:22 - Season 2 overview: cast, notable athletes missing

3:42 - Season 1 highlights

Episode 1: ALL AMERICAN

5:32 - Noah Lyles

10:21 - Fred Kerley

13:10 - Christian Coleman

15:40 - Gabby Thomas, Dennis Mitchell’s pro group

17:57 - Little focus on athletes’ personalities outside of track

19:48 - Highlights of episode 1

Episode 2: CHANGING OF THE GUARD

20:35 - Jamaican storylines

22:23 - Kishane Thompson, Oblique Seville

25:53 - Shericka Jackson

31:27 - Julien Alfred

Episode 3: GOING FOR GOLD: PART 1

33:45 - Series shifts to the Olympics

37:00 - Marcell Jacobs

39:01 - Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson, TeeTee Terry

44:10 - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

48:17 - Shericka Jackson

50:24 - Julien Alfred

Episode 4: GOING FOR GOLD: PART 2

56:32 - Men’s 100m final

1:02:19 - Kenny Bednarek

1:03:50 - Letsile Tebogo

1:05:10 - Men’s 200m: Noah Lyles getting COVID

1:08:36 - Women’s 200m: Gabby Thomas, Julien Alfred

1:11:32 - How the series ends + U.S. men’s 4x100m relay

Final takeaways:

1:14:39 - Parting thoughts and final rating

1:17:53 - What comes next + will there be a Season 3?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, it is November 13th.
0:10.0	I'm Chris Chavez.
0:11.0	I'm Prit Magistia.
0:13.0	And today is the day that Sprint Season 2 arrives on Netflix,
0:21.9	four fresh episodes for track fans to binge.
0:27.0	Season 1 debuted in July and ended up among some of the top-watched shows on Netflix in its first week.
0:36.6	If you attended any of the Diamond Leagues or the World Championships or even the
0:42.9	Olympics this summer, you could see the cameras falling around many of the top athletes.
0:50.2	So very soon after season one was announced, I think there had already been signs that season two was in the works.
1:00.1	They confirmed it before the series that had even premiered.
1:04.7	And then season one was received super well.
1:07.7	I had lots of non-track fans texting me about it, getting into following a
1:13.7	lot of the top athletes. And so the bar was set pretty high, I would say, for season two.
1:22.6	Season two ends up being four episodes. That's too fewer than the first season.
1:30.1	And as a result of how the Olympics shook out, we have new characters to introduce in season
1:39.7	one.
1:40.0	That's just a challenge that comes with a series on a sport where it's a very individual
1:47.5	sport.
1:49.0	Season two picks up after the 2023 World Championships, stars like Noah Liles and Shakary
1:56.1	Richardson enter a new stratosphere of stardom.
2:01.2	And then from there, obviously, we know how the Paris Olympics shakeout.
2:06.7	So that means that people like Julian Alfred or Litsilatabogo, who were left out entirely from season one, need to be introduced to the Netflix audience.
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