Track Snacks: An Appreciation of Bahamian Sprinting, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Steven Gardiner (400m Olympic Champions) | 10 Weeks Until World Championships!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday! This is the fifth edition of Track Snacks – a mini-series taking you into the weekend where Chris Chavez and a fellow CITIUS MAG staffer share the story of an athlete who they're excited about right now that you can expect to see compete at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (July 15–24, 2022).
For this episode, Mac Fleet (CITIUS MAG's video specialist) joins me to chat about Bahamian sprinting and its current stars. Shaunae Miller-Uibo is the reigning Olympic champion in the 400m. Steven Gardiner is the reigning Olympic champion in the 400m and has not lost a race since earning silver at the 2017 World Championships. Both sprinters have been working on their one-lap craft for a decade and now they're the best in the world. In Tokyo, Miller-Uibo became the first woman since Marie-José Pérec in the 90s to win back-to-back Olympic 400m gold medals. Gardiner became the first man from the Bahamas to win Olympic gold in the 400m.
In total, the Bahamas has won 25 medals – 8 gold, 9 silver and 8 bronze. That’s more than the 16 medals they have at the Olympics across all sports. At the Games, they’re always in the mix for a relay medal. They have six medals in the 4x100 and 4x400 combined. This country loves its sprints and we love a country that loves track and field.
Track Snacks is presented by Hayward Magic. Everyone knows how much all of us in the CITIUS MAG family love track & field, and how much we enjoy sharing that love with you all. Well, we’ve got a few big love-sharing ideas in the works and it all takes place in Eugene, Oregon this summer. Hayward Field will be the home to the Prefontaine Classic, the USATF Outdoor Championships and the World Athletics Championships. We'll be there and you should be too. Visit https://citiusmag.com/summerofhayward/ for all the information on dates and tickets.
Track Snacks is sponsored by @HaywardMagic, the Instagram home for the true track & field diehards, dreamers and fans. Sharing the magic of the sport and elevating the athletes that push it forward. Follow them on Instagram @HaywardMagic.
Intro music: "Believe In Yourself" by Norm Cotone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday and welcome to yet another edition of Track Snacks presented by Hayward Magic |
| 0:13.1 | 10 weeks until we're back in Eugene, Oregon for the World Athletics Championships, |
| 0:18.0 | Oregon 22. And for this episode, I'm joined by Mac Fleet, who is City's Max quarterback |
| 0:24.0 | for all our video initiatives. Mac for starters, what's it been like? I guess kind of seeing |
| 0:30.0 | the Eugene that you attended as a college student and then the Eugene that you lived in as |
| 0:35.1 | a professional all of a sudden get this massive facelift and change to host a global championship. |
| 0:42.3 | I feel like I'm already the old man out that's saying like back in my day every time I go back there. |
| 0:47.6 | There's mostly new dorms which are nice compared to the things that we were in, |
| 0:52.4 | but there's still some of the old small town charm is definitely still there. You can definitely |
| 0:57.2 | still go to Prince Parklers or still go get an eight dollar picture of oatmeal, |
| 1:03.7 | stout, and agadale. I guess that's the nice thing that's still there. |
| 1:07.9 | Rest in peace to tailors that's that's definitely not there. |
| 1:12.1 | I think that was a long time coming there that was you could read that one from a mile out that's |
| 1:16.3 | for sure. Here for someone who is coming in from another country because they're expecting |
| 1:21.2 | 200,000 plus people to descend upon Eugene and it's going to be a little bit of a culture shock for |
| 1:26.7 | someone coming from another country who has never been to Oregon or never been to Eugene. |
| 1:32.5 | What are the top three things you would recommend they do when they get there? |
| 1:36.5 | Like must see things to do or check out or restaurants to eat at whatever you got. |
| 1:41.8 | All right. Well, unfortunately, they got rid of my favorite place which was Papa's Soul Food |
| 1:46.0 | which was in the Whittaker district. The best restaurant that was ever in Eugene is no more. |
| 1:52.6 | You're going to get a lot of Northwest Pacific Northwest type food up there I guess. |
| 1:58.4 | The fish shop is really good. That would be the top of my recommendation for food there. |
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