TORCH TALK DAY 1: JOSHUA CHEPTEGEI FINALLY GETS HIS 10,000M GOLD, GRANT FISHER TAKES BRONZE! TEAM USA BREAKS THE MIXED 4X400M WORLD RECORD + FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE REPECHAGE ROUNDS | LIVE FROM PARIS
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
We are FINALLY underway with track and field action at the Paris Olympics.
On this first episode of TORCH TALK (presented by Asics), Chris Chavez, Eric Jenkins, Mitch Dyer, Aisha Praught-Leer and Katelyn Hutchison unpack the first day of action including:
– Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei set a new Olympic record with a time of 26:43.14 to finally get his Olympic gold medal in the event. Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi closing hard to snag the silver medal by two-hundredths of a second. Grant Fisher holding on against some titans to run 26:43.46 and become just the 4th American man to medal in the event.
– Team USA's mixed 4x400m relay broke the world record in 3:07.41 in the heats. They could break their own world record again tomorrow.
– Sifan Hassan started her 5000m/10,000m/marathon triple and looks better than we expected for the 5000m.
– We officially got introduced to the repechage rounds with the heats of the 800m and 1500m.
– Germany’s Leo Neugebauer leads the decathlon after Day 1.
– Reigning Olympic champion Valarie Allman topped discus qualifying with 69.59m
– Jamaica’s Shaniecka Ricketts led the triple jump's first round with a 14.47m leap but it was Keturah Orji, who made some history for the U.S. as a three-time Olympic finalist.
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Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Host: Mitch Dyer | @metchosketch on Instagram
Host: Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Host: Aisha Praught-Leer | @aishapraughtleer on Instagram
Host: Katelyn Hutchison |@kxnaomi on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:03.0 | Torch Talk is back, Sidious Mag live from Paris, presented by A6. |
| 0:10.2 | Chris Chavez here with Eric Jenkins, Mitch Dyer, and our special guest, Aisha Prott Lear, |
| 0:16.4 | Jamaican National Record Holder, multiple time National Champion, |
| 0:21.6 | here to break down some of the action that took place on the |
| 0:25.0 | first day of the games and it was electric. I'm still buzzing from the first track final that we just witnessed. We had the |
| 0:36.0 | men's 10,000 meter final on the track and it was electric from start to finish. |
| 0:43.4 | Halfway through the race, I turned to Mitch in the stands |
| 0:46.6 | and I was like, are they just gonna obliterate |
| 0:49.8 | the Olympic record? |
| 0:51.0 | And the Olympic record coming into today was 2701 by |
| 0:53.6 | Kennedy so Baikalee back in 2008 and then today 13 guys got under it Josh |
| 1:00.6 | which hept a guy gets the gold medal for Uganda. |
| 1:05.0 | The world champion adds the Olympic title, finally to his resume. |
| 1:09.0 | Long time coming for him. |
| 1:10.6 | Barriu Aragawi of Ethiopia, closed tons of ground in the final 150 meters to come |
| 1:16.5 | away with the silver medal. |
| 1:18.1 | And then for us, I think like we're pretty stoked on Grant Fisher finally getting a global championship |
| 1:26.4 | medal with the bronze leaned at the finish line but just a total gutsy |
| 1:32.1 | race from him from start to finish kind of always was |
| 1:35.4 | toward the front and with the leaders. There's a video that is on Mac Fleet's Twitter |
| 1:40.5 | account right now of the Citi smag team watching the race from our |
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