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🗓️ 22 May 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Welcome to another episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, where we meet and have conversations with some of the most inspiring and elite athletes, coaches and sports personalities. Where all athletes dream of winning a World Championship, out today's guest has won not one, not two but 5 World Championships. Jessica Beard is an American sprinter who qualified for the 2009 IAAF World Championships in the 4x400-meter relay and 400 meters. She has competed at various national and international events since then and won medals any many events. She is truly one of the top athletes of the Country.
In this interview with Jessica Beard we will talk about her childhood and when she got into track & field, particularly 400m relay. We talk about her early days in high school and university where she was initially a basketball player and how she switched to track and & field and became professional in 400m relay. Jessica also talks about her exceptional achievements in the track and field at the world championships and shares her insights into relay running. She also discussed about her training, workouts, diet and her plans for the future.
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0:00.0 | Good evening, good evening, and tonight we have another episode of the Home Stretch |
0:15.6 | with Adrian Durant and welcome to another special guest, Jessica Beard. |
0:19.8 | How are you doing, Jessica? |
0:21.4 | I'm loving it, so. |
0:23.8 | Can't go playing. |
0:24.8 | Thank you for joining us tonight and Ashley. |
0:26.8 | Thank you for joining me again as well. |
0:28.8 | Of course. |
0:29.8 | All right, let me read out Jessica's resume just a little bit for those of you who aren't |
0:35.5 | familiar with her. |
0:37.2 | Jessica was a, a, a, C. She was crushing it in high school. |
0:41.8 | She's from Euclid, Ohio with the Euclid high school. |
0:46.0 | When she shattered the state record in the 400 with a 51 63. |
0:49.1 | That was in high school. |
0:51.0 | That's, that's fast. |
0:52.0 | That's fast. |
0:53.0 | And you also played basketball. |
0:54.8 | You played basketball as well. |
0:55.8 | Yeah, my ball was live. |
1:00.0 | I thought I was going to you kind of like that in the terrassy for real. |
1:02.0 | Yeah, but I'm in high school, so, you know, it doesn't work for me. |
1:05.8 | Can you handle only five? |
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