The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #13 - Rising Jamaican Track & Field Athlete Janieve Russell

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

Self-improvement, Sports, African, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Education, Field, Month, Black, History, Track, American, Inspiration, Success, Olympian

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🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant we have with us Janieve Russell, a talented young track and field athlete. Russell was highly successful as a youth and junior level athlete. She was a nine-time gold medalist at the CARIFTA Games and a double gold medalist at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, winning the 400 meters hurdles and the 4 × 400 m relay. She also won a relay medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She is having a fantastic athletic career where she competed at various big national and international events like, the Commonwealth Games and The Olympics, and completed in top 3 in many of the events.

In this podcast with Janieve Russell, we will talk about her early days, how she got into Track & Field. At the start of her career, Russell was not only a 400m Relay Sprinter as we know her today, but she was also a World Class Long Jumper and High Jumper. She talks about why she chose 400m Relay over the other events. Janieve discusses her journey so far in becoming a world class athlete. We will also talk about her future plans and her preparations for the coming events.

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0:00.0	All right, good evening and tonight on the home stretch with Agent Durant and I am Agent Durant.
0:17.6	We have another special guest, Janie V Russell, straight from Jamaica, live from Jamaica right now.
0:23.9	Thank you Ashley for joining us again as well.
0:27.2	Hi, Duane Janie. I'm Si, how are you? I can't complain. So this is our first time meeting,
0:37.1	but I know a little bit about you. So I'm going to read off your bio just a little bit.
0:42.6	400 meter hurdle alert, Commonwealth game champion and the four hurdles and the four by four.
0:49.1	You are a Carift the Games champion. I remember the Carift the Games days. You are 2012,
0:55.5	I believe world junior champion and you are a silver medalist at the world champs in the mixed
1:00.9	relay. So quite some accolades you have there. So tell me how did you get involved with track and
1:09.5	field? I'm glad to involve in track and field. I very tender age. Jamaica is a country-born,
1:17.6	first-pores exercise track and field and my older sister she used to do track and field for her high
1:22.7	school. And you know this big event in Jamaica called boys and girls championship. Well,
1:27.3	she performed there and I saw on TV and I said, you know, I want to be like my sister because I
1:32.9	look up to her. So that's what I got involved. I got involved at the age of five. I thought it was five.
1:42.7	Yeah. I read five online. I want to call five, I would call five as seros because we have sports
1:51.4	day in the Caribbean. As you know, we just play the line rees, Cracus bags, so do call that seros.
1:57.6	But my seros starts at age eight when you went to primary champs going up to high school.
2:03.2	That's still a young age to be serious though. But Jamaica is the real thing.
2:08.2	That's right, everything. But isn't Jamaica is the real deal though?
2:12.4	You know, is it that? Is it that? Yeah. When you're a kid in Jamaica, is it that you see a path
2:19.0	forward to track? Like why is it that track is so big in Jamaica? Because it gets a lot of support
2:27.2	from the people. You know, when you go into the national system, it's packed computer football
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