Weini Kelati Reflects On Winning An Epic 10,000m Final To Qualify For Her First Olympic Team | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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“Every time I felt like I was going to fall off, I said, ‘No, I’m not going to let it happen. Mentally I am way stronger than this…’ I talked to myself in the last minute. I said, ‘No. I am mentally struggling, this is not hard. I’ve been running a lot faster than this during practice, so I can do this.’ That helped me to come back again.”
2x U.S. champion Weini Kelati joins us live in Eugene after winning the Olympic Trials 10,000m and qualifying for her first Olympic team. Weini shares about why she went all-in on the 10,000m at the Trials, how she fine-tuned her training to prepare for the 10,000m, what she tells herself during the toughest parts of races, what it means to her to represent the U.S. at the Olympics, and what message she hopes to impart to the millions of people who will be watching her compete at the Olympics. Hear more from Weini and her path to the Paris Olympics in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Mitch Dyer | @metchosketch on Instagram
Guest: Weini Kelati | @weini_kelati on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Sidious Mag live from Eugene, and we're down to our final guest after 10 days here at the U.S. Olympic Trials and I'm so |
| 0:16.0 | excited to welcome on Wayne and Kalati the 2024 U.S. |
| 0:19.2 | Olympic Trials 10,000-meter champion headed to your first Olympic Games. |
| 0:25.0 | How does that all sound? |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you, thanks so much for having me, but it feels amazing. |
| 0:31.0 | You know, I've been waiting for this woman so I just it happened |
| 0:34.8 | finally yeah I love the decision that you had to go all in on the 10-K what was |
| 0:41.0 | that like with you and coach Haas just sort of in the last month or so |
| 0:45.1 | because you came out here just a couple weeks ago and you ran a really fast 5K and I was like |
| 0:49.6 | oh she definitely can double but you were like 10k only yeah well I definitely had a |
| 0:55.2 | chance to double and I was in a really good shape in both events but I wanted to |
| 1:00.9 | challenge myself just focusing in one event that I don't have a choice if I don't make the team, you know? |
| 1:07.0 | I just wanted to focus on the thinking and get it done. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | What did you learn, I guess, from the last couple of U.S. |
| 1:14.0 | championships where like, you know, there have been sort of like those close calls and we talked enough of these |
| 1:18.4 | athletes where when they fall short one day and they have to come back for a second event like it's just |
| 1:24.6 | emotionally so hard to like build yourself back up and like get it back on the starting line |
| 1:28.9 | like for you was that also something that you experienced like in the last couple of years? |
| 1:33.7 | Definitely it's hard because you feel like you're in a good ship, you're ready to go, but you feel like |
| 1:41.2 | you're short of your goals. |
| 1:44.0 | It's hard, mentally hard, but no matter what you have to accept the failures |
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