Trey Hardee On Serving As An Analyst For NBC's Olympic Trials + Olympics Coverage Plans + How To Market Field Events
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
“This wasn’t a dream, I didn't study journalism, I didn't have any aspirations of being on television, but I love the fact that this is how I get to stay involved with the sport and be a steward and some sort of conduit for, at least on the field side, the joy and awe of the spectacle of what these men and women are able to do.”
Trey Hardee, Olympic silver medalist and 2x world champion in the decathlon, joins the show to chat about his transition into track and field broadcasting, his ideas on how to improve + grow the sport, his love for field events, and lots more. Hear more from Trey in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Anderson Emerole | @atkoeme on Instagram
Guest: Trey Hardee | @treyhardee on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not going to guess for Citius Mag live at live from Eugene I almost |
| 0:10.1 | said worlds like it is day three and my brain is already mush but we're |
| 0:14.6 | joined now by Olympic silver medalist two-time world champion Trey Hardy |
| 0:19.1 | who's part of the NBC broadcast here in Eugene I got thrown off almost because the credential |
| 0:24.1 | says James Hardy and I don't think as many people know that's your government |
| 0:26.8 | name that's the government name it's an easy screen it's a nice greener to have |
| 0:30.0 | when somebody like calls the house can Like, can I speak to James? |
| 0:33.0 | Like, nope. |
| 0:34.0 | You know? |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:37.4 | So being part of like the NBC team, what number trials? |
| 0:41.4 | U.S. Champs is this for you now? |
| 0:43.0 | I, I, I'm not sure, but I didn't, got hurt in 16, didn't make the team, but came back and did the |
| 0:50.0 | back half with NBC and that was kind of like my first trials and then did 21 to |
| 0:54.8 | Tokyo and then so there's my third trials as you know a broadcast team member getting |
| 1:02.4 | to like talk about all of the good stuff. |
| 1:05.2 | That transition like it was it looks seamless I think like from you you I mean it helps to have the experience |
| 1:12.2 | of knowing all of the events, but I mean what have you sort of made of like the broadcast side of things? |
| 1:17.4 | Well shoot it helps to like know the people. Yeah like in 16 that was easy that was so easy I got to come in and give this like really |
| 1:25.0 | detailed inside knowledge like hey that person loves you know yellow cake |
| 1:30.3 | but then that person likes to watch scary movies the night before and it was like |
| 1:34.8 | those are my people you know and then in 21 it COVID restrictions made it really really difficult |
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