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Shot Putter Hurdles · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, did you see
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  the shot putterer who ran the hurdles? Well, let's ask our American mama,
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  mama, she said, and joining us now our American mama, Terry
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  Netterville. This is a story from the Belgian national track team women's track team.
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  And what happened was there out of competition and both of their hurdlers got
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  injured, and so now they had the hundred meter hurdles coming up, and
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  they didn't have anybody to run the race. And so this shot putterer I
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  believe named Joline Bumco j O l I E N. Joline Bumco said,
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  you know what, I'll run it, yeah, because they would have been
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  just I think they would have been qualified. They would have kicked out a
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  whole competition. And she's actually a beautiful tall but you know she's she's tall
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  girl. And so to watch her delicately go over so that she didn't knock
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  down the hurdles, right, She didn't want any penalty points, but she
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  said her team is the most important thing to her. She said, I
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  couldn't let it happen to lose by one point. She just could not have
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  that happen. So she stepped in and they were so grateful they were able
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  to stay in it. And somebody said she might have the record for the
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  slowest you know, slowcount because she'd run up to the hurdle way down to
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  step over it. She's not like a sprinter. This is a big lady
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  who's used to power and shot putting, not spelt and speedy. But she
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  said there's no risk for her. She said, I took it calmly.
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  Maybe it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to take part in something like this.
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  Sure, so she said there were a few doubts in her mind,
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  but she said she was so glad for that new experience and she's kind of
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  heralded as a hero. And somebody on Twitter said, now we need one
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  of the runners to go do shot put see how But she definitely deserves an
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  Ultimate Team Player award because if this doesn't scream team right right, I don't
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  know what and why is there not another sprinter on the Belgian team. She's
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  clearly not a sprinter. Clearly he's a power sport right, yes, And
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  but I loved what her and she came me dead last and Susie crossed the
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  finish line, she hugged the runner next to her from another nation. You
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  know, I mean, there's just clearly and that that runner clearly was like,
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  man, I admire what you did. You know, you could tell
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  the other runners for her exactly, even though they destroyed her in the race,
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  they had respect for what she was doing. They understood why she was
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  doing it. They knew they were going to blow her out of the water,
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  right, But what they loved and what they respected was the fact that
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  she got out there knowing that, knowing she doesn't know how to run hurdles,
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  right. And you know, in today's and today's in light of today's
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  sports world, you not talk about this sometimes off the air, because it's
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  an issue with me when we have teammates who decide, after they've played with
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  their team for two or three years, they get a better deal at a
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  bigger school, and they say, Sionara to their teammates, to their coach,
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  I'm better than y'all now, so I'm gonna move a home up right,
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  And a team wasn't number one right right right in this climate. To
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  see someone who is so dedicated to her team that she was unwilling to allow
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  them to lose that point, to be disqualified right that she looked, I'm
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  sure from somebody that has no experience just turned on the TV, it looked
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  like, what is happening? What is going on here? She didn't care
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  about any of that. It was all about her team. I do like
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  that. And one of the stories that you know sometimes comes up. You
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  know you've got negotiation going on with pro sports players, and you hear of
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  a top level pro sports player going to their team saying, I want less
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  money than what you're offering me because I want you to pay other teammates of
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  mine more so we can keep a great team together. Yes, when you
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  hear those stories, I love those kinds of stories, when people actually do
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  literally put the team over self. I remember the first time I ever heard
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  that was it was an LSU player named Raife. I think I can't remember
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  his last name. But it was a few years before all of this stuff
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  with nil and the transfer portal and all of that. But I remember Manera
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  Manari on one of his press junkets. He said that Ray came to him
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  and said, Hey, I'm going to give you back my scholarship, so
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  that you can get whoever you need to get on our team to help us
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  win, to help us go far. And I remember thinking how gallant,
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  how chivalrous, how how incredibly generous and selfless to focus on the team like
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  that. Yeah, because that would have helped him. You know that having
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  that scholarship money can only help you, So to give it up for the
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  betterment of your team. For this woman, this young woman, to say
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  I'm going to put myself out there for the betterment of the team, that
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  says so much about their care I agree. I agree, And especially when
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  you you're looking at a high level athlete, because high level athletes are competitive.
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  Oh yeah, man, they do not like to lose. Right,
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  She signed up for a race. She knew she was gonna get slaughtered in
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  Yes she was. She She wasn't even in the running right right, literally,
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  she was in the walking and stepping over. And the teammates were equally
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  thrilled because they knew they were going to get slaughtered with this. They knew,
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  but they wouldn't get disqualified. So they were so grateful to her for
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  stepping up and saying, look, I don't know what the heck I'm doing,
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  but I'm going to do the very best that I can so that y'all
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  can continue on because they were able to continue after that. It's a great
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