Vin Lananna On The State of Track and Field In America 2024 | CITIUS MAG LIVE IN EUGENE
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
“He was the alternate on our distance medley for NCAAs. He’s come a long way. He reminds me of that everyday — how he was the alternate and now he’s the NCAA champion.”
Vin Lananna, USATF President + Director of track and field and cross country at the University of Virginia, shares about 800m NCAA champion Shane Cohen’s progression over the last year and what’s got him excited about the state of track and field in America. Plus, Vin shares a fun story about 1500m Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz. Hear more from Vin in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
CITIUS MAG LIVE From Eugene! will bring you daily interviews with athletes, coaches and notable folks in town at noon PT. Our guests for day one of the Olympic Trials include Vin Lananna, Matt James, Dylan Beard, and Manteo Mitchell.
Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Vin Lananna | @vinlananna on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome to Eugene, Oregon. |
| 0:06.8 | Cityus Mag, live in Eugene. I'm Chris Chavez joined by my colleague here |
| 0:15.2 | Eric Jenkins. Jenkins just had good morning track and field the debut. How did you |
| 0:20.0 | feel like when? Show number one I thought went great and I think it's only |
| 0:24.4 | vibes are high only gets better from here. So we're here for the next 10 days |
| 0:29.4 | New Bounce has been so great in carving out this space for us. Newbound celebrates runners of all |
| 0:33.6 | levels and styles. They believe that there's no single right way to run, just your way. |
| 0:38.6 | If you run, no matter the distance, no matter the pace or frequency,'re a runner new balance run your way |
| 0:45.3 | That's exactly what I was saying on this morning show it's your pledge of allegiance |
| 0:48.3 | I pledge of allegiance awesome so what we heard from all of our supporters and followers is that you guys seem to love these interview shows that we do. |
| 0:59.0 | We kicked this off at the World Championships in 2022. |
| 1:02.0 | We ran it back at the 2023 world |
| 1:04.3 | championships in Budapest just tapping in with the athletes the coaches any notable |
| 1:09.5 | VIPs her in town no guest is too big or too small to be on the Citius Mag |
| 1:15.3 | set. |
| 1:15.7 | We've had everyone from the likes of Shellie Ann Frazier Price, |
| 1:19.2 | Michael Johnson, a gold medalist world record holders so I'm excited for the next 10 days as we get to |
| 1:28.2 | kick back with some of these athletes and one of the staples that we've had on the first day of each one of these championships |
| 1:36.0 | is that we get a little bit of like a state of the union address from the USATF |
| 1:40.8 | president, also the Director of Track and Field |
| 1:45.0 | and Cross Country at the University of Virginia. |
| 1:47.2 | So we're gonna kick things off |
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