The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #9 - Khamica Bingham on Journey to Olympics, Tragedy and Resilience

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

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🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today, on the show, we have with us, the fastest woman in the Canada, none other than Olympic sprinter Khamica Bingham. Khamica Bingham is a Canadian track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 meters. She has represented Canada at the Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games and the World Championships in Athletics. She became part of the national record women’s 4×100 m relay team along with Kimberly Hyacinthe, Crystal Emmanuel and Shai-Anne Davis. She is also the 2019 Pan American Games Silver medalist in the 4×100 m relay.

Khamica started off as a national-level gymnast and then switched to track due to personal reasons. In this video, she will share her spectacular journey into track & field and how it all began. She will share all her struggles and hardships she faced in becoming a world class athlete. In July 2016 she was officially named to Canada’s Olympic team. She also described how big this moment was for her and her family. She talks about the tragic time when she lost a dear friend and how deeply the incident affected her. All athletes fall at some point in their journey but it is the resilience which makes an Olympian athlete. We talked about how she recovered from the incident and got back on track. We will also talk about her preparations and routines right now for future events.

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0:00.0	All right, all right. Welcome. Welcome to the home stretch podcast where we talk to star athletes,
0:18.0	medalists, coaches, people have achieved world-class status in the sport of track and field.
0:23.2	And we talked to them about their journey and their struggles and how they got to the level of
0:27.2	success that they did because I'll tell you what. Everybody has a story of trials that they
0:32.4	have to overcome because life is not easy and if you want to be successful, you have to endure
0:37.2	and you have to push doing, you have to work hard. So today I want to welcome my guest,
0:43.2	Camilla Bingham from Canada. And also we also want to welcome my co-host Ashikelli joining me again
0:50.0	today. How you doing, Ashley? I'm doing good, AJ. Wonderful. Thank you for having me.
0:55.4	Oh, thanks for coming. I can't do this by myself. I just talked to you.
0:59.2	I love it. I'm sorry. Welcome. Welcome, Camilla. Nice to meet you.
1:05.0	Join us from Canada and you are a two-time Pan and Gay medalist, a silver edub bronze.
1:11.2	And also known as the then Canada's fastest woman. Because it was a blazing time of 11, 13 and
1:18.3	100 meters. That was it, right? I love it, 13. You got it right. You were smoking a lot of folks out there.
1:25.2	Guys, yes. If you're wondering, you would get beaten. So I don't care what football you play.
1:31.6	Anyway, thanks for coming. I want to hear about your journey. You know, coming up in Canada,
1:37.4	I know Canada has somehow a lot of sprinters. It's cold up there, but you guys have a lot of
1:42.4	sprinters and I guess here's a tradition up there. So tell me, tell me about coming up in Canada,
1:47.4	running track, why track and whatever. Just however way you want to go with it.
1:52.8	Yeah, I was born in racing Canada. I think there is a lot of sprinters just because a lot of our
1:59.9	parents are immigrants from like the Caribbean and all over places and stuff. So for me, like
2:06.0	my dad did track, my mom knows tracks. So that was something that they kind of knew. And then like
2:11.7	before I even did track, they put me in gymnastics because we were a very sports oriented family.
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