Track Snacks: Faith Kipyegon (1500m Olympic Gold Medalist) | 4 Weeks Until World Championships!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday! This is the 10th edition of Track Snacks – a mini-series taking you into the weekend where Chris Chavez and a CITIUS MAG staffer or friend 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, we're joined by David Melly to discuss the brilliance of Faith Kipyegon. She is the two-time Olympic 1500m champion from Kenya. Last summer, she also ran 3:51.07 to lower her own national record and move in to the No. 4 slot on the all-time list. We go through her upbringing in Kenya, how she's been successful through the youth and junior global scene, her rise against Genzebe Dibaba and how she's been an amazingly positive figure and model example for mothers in the sport.
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
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| 0:00.0 | If you're listening to this on Friday, we are now less than a month away from the world |
| 0:20.1 | championships taking place in Eugene, Oregon, which is kind of crazy to think that this |
| 0:24.4 | whole bonus podcast episode started and we were like 12, 13 weeks out and now it's less than |
| 0:32.4 | a month to go. David, are you excited to head out to Hayward Field in a month to go check out |
| 0:38.9 | the first world championships on US soil? I'm pumped. I mean, first we have to get through USA's, |
| 0:46.3 | which I'm also pumped to watch, although not in person. But it's going to be, I mean, |
| 0:53.2 | already between NCAA's and pre and everything. I just feel like I'm in such a track high right now |
| 1:02.0 | that I don't know how I'm going to sustain it for the next four weeks, but I am looking forward to |
| 1:07.6 | it. That's for sure. Oh, trust me, you will. So as you said, this bonus episode for your weekend |
| 1:13.2 | listening is brought to you by Hayward Magic. We're riding the momentum from the pre-fantane classic |
| 1:17.6 | and the NCAA championships and all the surprises and amazing performances that we saw to prepare for |
| 1:22.7 | the US outdoor championships, which will run from June 23 to the 26. That's where the rest of team USA |
| 1:28.8 | is going to be named for worlds. There's going to be upsets. There's going to be breakthroughs. There's |
| 1:33.1 | going to be tears of joy and tears of heartbreak. It's one of the most competitive meets of the year |
| 1:37.5 | with the highest of stakes because then worlds will run from July 15 to July 24. We'll have |
| 1:43.9 | Sidious Maghouse up and running for both of those events. We'll be doing daily runs and daily |
| 1:49.2 | programming from our house during the world championships. So stay tuned because we're getting ready |
| 1:53.5 | to announce some of our plans very soon. Hayward Magic is gearing up for all of the action happening |
| 1:58.8 | this season and they want to see how you're preparing for the summer events at Hayward, whether you're |
| 2:02.9 | high school college or pro athlete or if you're just a fan looking forward to taking in all of the |
| 2:08.1 | action from the comfort of your own seats at Hayward Field shows how you're preparing for the trip |
| 2:13.6 | by using hashtag make it to Hayward in your captions. Hayward Magic will select and feature the |
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