The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #5 - 3 Times Olympic Gold and 6 x World Champion - Lashawn Merritt

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Just one Olympic Gold is a dream for many athletes but our today's guest is a 4 times Olympic Medalist of which 3 are Gold Medals out of which he won two Gold in a single Olympics. Our today’s' guest on The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, needs no introduction, he is one of the most decorated male US sprinter, 4 times Olympic Medalist, 6 times World Champion, none other than, Lashawn Merritt.

Lashawn is the perfect paradigm of dedication, hard work and hustle. He has worked his way up the scale of championships in the 400: ’04 World Junior titlist, ’05 Worlds 4×4 heat runner, ’07 Worlds 400 silver and relay gold, then the Olympic titles in both events in 2008 Beijing Olympics. He wasn't looking like stopping there at all. He went on to become 5 times World Champion after that and claimed two more Olympic titles in 2016 Rio Olympics.

In this latest interview with Lashawn Merritt, we are going to talk about his life story from the start. How he started in track while growing up and started winning championships right from the very young age. We discus his time at East Carolina University and his journey to become 4 times Olympic Medalist.

Unfortunate for any athlete, Lashawn's career is also having a setback due to injury. In the last few years, he has raced in professional events just seven times and he skipped entire Diamond League seasons and did not enter national championships. Merritt was going through the toughest injury spell of his career at that time. And we haven't seen much of him as well in those years. In this interview we are going to know all about where Lashwan Merritt was for past few years, how he got injured and how he is now. Also what lies ahead in his professional running career. Coming up, in this podcast.

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0:00.0	All right, so I want to welcome our guests, Lashan Merritt, and also I have another guest,
0:17.2	our guest co-host today, Coach Justin Byron, associate head coach at Cornell.
0:22.1	Welcome, welcome Lashan.
0:24.5	You know, we know Coach Byron and I know Lashan from back of the day when we all used to
0:28.6	train in Virginia together, you know, the hard days.
0:33.8	You know, Coach Byron, I watched up and retired, but Lashan, you know, he's kind of, he's
0:38.7	still at it, you know, picking up medals and whatnot.
0:41.8	So, Sean, Lashan made me feel like I was welcome.
0:45.0	He made me feel like I was watched up and retired back back when we were training together.
0:49.1	Exactly.
0:50.1	Exactly.
0:51.1	Because I felt watched up and retired back then.
0:53.1	No, we'll go into the humble and experienced that is training with Lashan Merritt, but I, let
0:58.1	me just get it to his stats real quick.
1:00.3	Really quickly, Sean Merritt, PR and the 435, PR and 219 74, the 3131 23, and I believe you
1:13.6	have the title, Craig Melf, if I'm wrong, but you're the most decorated.
1:19.0	Help me out.
1:20.0	The most decorated male American.
1:22.7	There we go.
1:23.7	And how many medals is that?
1:25.7	You know what, man, I really don't even know.
1:28.6	You know, come on.
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