Track Snacks: Sifan Hassan (5000m and 10000m Olympic Champion) | 11 Weeks Until World Championships!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday! This is the FOURTH 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, Dana Giordano (Host of the 'More Than Running' Podcast) joins me to chat about Sifan Hassan. She is the reigning Olympic champion in the 5000m and the 10,000m and the Olympic bronze medalist in the 1500m. Hassan burst onto the scene in 2014 as she started putting The Netherlands on the podium at European championships. In the last eight years, she's gone on to break world records in the mile, road 5K and one-hour run. She's got some of the best range in the sport and demonstrated it best at the 2019 World Championships in Doha where she became the first person to win gold in the 1500m and 10,000m. At the Tokyo Olympics, she attempted an unprecedented triple. We're excited to see if she can do it all over again in 2022.
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 Thrack Snacks presented by Hayward Magic. |
| 0:14.7 | For this episode, I'm joined by more than running podcast host and my city's mag colleague, |
| 0:21.1 | Dana Jardano. |
| 0:22.8 | Dana, this feels like, I said it's a chialastic, it feels like a mini episode of Torch Talk |
| 0:28.7 | that we did last summer, but when I mentioned to you, less than a hundred days to go until |
| 0:34.2 | the world championship, what goes through your mind? |
| 0:36.9 | I think it's just so soon, Tokyo, and it's so soon for it's coming up, and I'm like, wait, |
| 0:44.9 | we just did this. |
| 0:47.3 | It doesn't feel like that long ago, but the storylines really have changed quite a bit. |
| 0:52.0 | There's a lot of people who haven't raised yet. |
| 0:54.1 | There was a lot of injuries after the Olympics. |
| 0:56.4 | So I'm kind of excited to get the storylines back up and running, because some of my key |
| 1:02.4 | players I'm looking at for have not raised yet. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I think the craziest stat, or, and I wasn't even stat, I think, I think it was a tweet |
| 1:09.3 | I saw this week was that we are closer to the next Olympics, that's Paris 24, then we |
| 1:16.4 | are away from the 2019 World Championships, which that blew my mind. |
| 1:22.7 | Hey, my life looked very different in the summer of 2019. |
| 1:26.4 | So for me, that feels completely accurate. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, so for those of you who are tuning into tracks next for the first time, the goal of |
| 1:33.7 | this show is that every week we're going to be sharing with you the story of an athlete |
| 1:37.4 | that we're super excited about at the moment, and that we'll be seeing compete at the World |
| 1:41.1 | Athletics Outdoor Championships in July. |
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