Track Snacks: Mondo Duplantis (Pole Vault Olympic Champion) | 8 Weeks Until World Championships!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday! This is the seventh 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, Joshua Potts (Host of The 2BlackRunners Podcast) joins me to chat about Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Mondo Duplantis. The New York Times called him "The Tiger Woods of the pole vault" as a high schooler. We dive into Mondo's childhood and how he got so good at a young age, dominated the high school scene and has literally propelled himself as one of the sport's biggest stars for the next decade. Duplantis owns the indoor and outdoor world records with a 6.20m jump indoors and a 6.15m jump outdoors. He's got the records and the Olympic gold medal but he's still missing a World Championship gold. That seems to be on the way in Eugene this summer. Can anyone stop him?!
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 get another edition of Track Snacks. |
| 0:12.5 | We are eight weeks away from the world championships taking place in Eugene, Oregon. |
| 0:19.5 | My co-host for this one is the one and only Joshua Paz, one half of the two black runners |
| 0:24.9 | podcast, the man behind the running report, Joshua, eight weeks away from worlds, you'll |
| 0:31.9 | be there. |
| 0:32.9 | Oh, that's, I didn't even know it was eight weeks away, like, wait, what, that's literally |
| 0:38.1 | insane. |
| 0:39.1 | And the fact that I'm one here just makes me even more hyped because we get to dive into |
| 0:43.2 | an athlete, be able to really analyze and just get really hyped up for the world champs. |
| 0:47.1 | You know, like Chris, we love to get hyped especially on two black runners on the runner |
| 0:50.5 | report and everything. |
| 0:51.5 | That's all we really about. |
| 0:52.5 | We about the hype. |
| 0:53.7 | So yes, like, it sounds unrealistic that's eight weeks away, but definitely super, super |
| 0:58.4 | excited. |
| 0:59.4 | Please coming up. |
| 1:00.4 | So like the ball is rolling and we're, we're jumping on. |
| 1:04.4 | I know your brother Aaron has the shirt, but do you have a, I heart track and field shirt |
| 1:09.4 | up or do you just express it in every walk of life and everything that you do for everything |
| 1:14.1 | I do is I love track and field. |
| 1:15.3 | I don't got the shirt yet. |
| 1:16.4 | I probably should go and city is mag calm, go cough the shirt, but low brother, like literally |
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