TORCH TALK DAY 6: ATHING MU ENDS A 53-YEAR DROUGHT FOR GOLD, SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN LOWERS HER WR, MONDO SCARES THE WR + CHRIS RAN TODAY
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The kids are alright! The evening session of day 5 did not disappoint with a jam-packed schedule that included four finals. This episode, Chris, Kyle and Dana unpack a near world record by Mondo Duplantis who finally wins gold, 19-year-olds racing to 800-meter perfection in Athing Mu and Keely Hodgkinson and the golden 100/200 double by Elaine Thompson-Herah.
The evening session back in the United States featured a long-awaited clash between Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad as a rematch of the U.S. Olympic Trials.
More things discussed include:
- Never dount the championship mindset of Anita Wlodarczyk
- Why Joe Kovacs made Chris sweat a little bit in the first round of the men's shot put
- We need to figure out Ivy league school has the most Olympic track medals?
– How good did all three American men in the 200-meter semifinal look
– Major takeaways from the first round of the men's 5,000 meters
– Why we need to watch Chris Nielsen vs. Sam Kendricks for years to come
– Athing Mu is already talking about world records and doubling at the 2024 Olympics in Paris
+ Much more
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Torch Talk with Chris Kyle and Dana on the City of Smag podcast |
| 0:09.0 | presented by Hayward Magic. |
| 0:11.9 | Hayward Magic is a new, unique and fresh editorial channel on Instagram that captures the magic |
| 0:17.6 | and intensity of track and field. |
| 0:19.9 | Their mantra is hashtag make it to Hayward because Hayward is not just a place but a state |
| 0:25.1 | of mind. |
| 0:26.1 | It's where guts meet Smagic. |
| 0:28.8 | I've been a fan of the accounts since I started a few months ago. |
| 0:31.6 | You may have seen them on Instagram stories with some of their motivational posters and |
| 0:34.9 | sayings. |
| 0:35.9 | One of my personal favorite things that they do are these newspaper headlines when |
| 0:39.1 | records are broken. |
| 0:40.6 | So look out for those during the games because I'm sure we're going to see world records |
| 0:44.8 | and American records dropping month and right. |
| 0:47.4 | Recently, they've released a few awesome stop-motion and claimations shorts that they've |
| 0:51.4 | put together. |
| 0:52.8 | Those take so much work and time so to see it happening for our sport and our stars |
| 0:56.9 | is particularly cool. |
| 0:59.0 | We've seen the comments, who's behind this account? |
| 1:02.0 | What's happening? |
| 1:03.0 | What are they selling? |
| 1:04.0 | They're actually not selling anything. |
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