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#281: Paris 2024 Olympic Medalist Coaches! · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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Welcome back to a special edition of the Gill Connections
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Podcast. I'm so humbled to be your host,
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Mike Cunningham, Gill's National Business Development Manager and
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also known as the host of this great podcast here.
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First of all, before we get started into this special solo
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podcast, it's just my voice. I hope you are ready to buckle
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up for this one. I do want to give a shout out to
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Udon Cheek over at East Carolina University.
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We're just so proud, humbled, thankful that he would lend his
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talents for us. I'm talking about that intro and
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outro song, man, if you haven't listened, I know a lot of times
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we Fast forward through that, just go back, we get the whole
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song at the very end of the podcast, but just grateful that
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he'd bring some flavors, some heat to the podcast and just
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thankful for his servant leadership.
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Now, Speaking of servant leadership today, you probably
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know me well enough. I am all about the track coach,
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the track and field coach, and I have just been disappointed.
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When we watch the world champs, US indoors, any of the
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professional meets, we typically don't hear about who the coach
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is. We all know who's coaching the
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Patriots, we all know who's coaching the New York Yankees.
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We all know who's coaching other professional teams, LSUS
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football and Florida football and things like that.
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But we rarely, rarely bring out the track coach.
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Now on the collegiate side, a little bit easier, right?
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I can Google that. On the professional side, a
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little bit harder. So today we are going to read
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out, We're going to talk about not much talking about.
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We're just going to read out and recognize the coaches of the
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2024 Paris Olympic medalist. Now before you start giving me
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too much credit, I got to give a shout out again where I talk
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about servant leadership to David Burnett at Iowa Western.
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Go check him out on Twitter at David Burnett DAVIDBURNE TT02.
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David Burnett must be an O1, but this is the real David Burnett
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here. David did the bulk of the heavy
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lifting here. He went out and put together
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this spreadsheet of all the coaches that coach the medalist
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for every event, 100 meters all the way through.
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I think he has marathon in here, but I'm going to skip the
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marathon. Any marathon lovers that hate on
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me, send it to Twitter. Sorry, I'm just not doing it.
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But all the other, oh you know what, I'm going to make my race
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walkers upset. There's no race walking on here
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either. So I'm going to call it the
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traditional track events, the 100 through the field events,
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pole vault, etcetera. David did the bulk of this heavy
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lifting and went out and researched all the coaches and
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that just got me excited to be able to uplift and honor them
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and what they've done at the the highest stage.
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David had a few missing parts and I went to Twitter and asked
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for help and we got help from both rows.
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Bunch of other great, amazing people.
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And we now have a list of every single coach except for one.
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And that's going to be well, you'll see.
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You'll see where that that happened.
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So if someone's listening and you know who the coach of this
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one person when we get there, send it to me.
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We'd love to update this. So let's get started with the
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100 meter dash in the men's 100, the gold medalist, Noah Lyles,
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coach by good friend of mine here, Lance Brahman.
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Lance hasn't been on the podcast, but his dad has been on
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the podcast. So you might want to go check
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that out. But shout out to Lance Brahman
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for coaching the gold medalist in the by the way, give me a
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little CYA cover my own butt here.
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I am going to butcher some of these names.
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I apologize. I'm going to try very, very
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hard, but please forgive me when I make them a snake knot if I
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make the mistake. All right.
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So first place Noah Lyles, Lance Brahman, shout out to you. 2nd
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place silver medalist in the men's 100, Keyshawn Thompson did
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an amazing job coached by man legendary Steven Francis.
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Bronze medalist in the men's 100, we've got Fred Curley.
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He's currently coached by John Bolton over at USC.
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Fred's former coach Eileen Franzique Gill podcast alum, Go
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check it out right here in the same podcast app that you're
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using today over on the women's 100, we've got gold medalist
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Julian Alfred, coached by man, the amazing Edrick, Floreal
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Edrick. If you're listening, we got to
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get you on the podcast, my man. We want to know your journey.
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Silver medalist Shakari Richardson, coached by good
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friend. He's been on the podcast before.
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Check him out. Dennis Mitchell down at Star
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Athletics. Also the bronze medalist Melissa
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Jefferson coached by the great Dennis Mitchell.
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Moving down to the 200 on the Mint side we got let's seal
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Taboho coached by Dosay Mossenman Yanni.
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I hope I got that name correct. Great job Coach Mosenman Yanni
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for bringing Taboho to the gold medal in the 200 meter dash. 2nd
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place is Kenny Bednarik, he was our civil medalist here for the
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Olympics 200 meter dash and coached by well familiar name
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here Dennis Mitchell, bronze medalist in the men's 200,
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familiar name Noah Lyles and Lance Brahman.
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Shout out to Dennis and Lance, man, you guys are all over this
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thing here over on the women's 200 meter dash, we've got gold
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medalist Gabby Thomas coached by great friend.
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We need to get this coach on the podcast as well.
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Tanja Buford Bailey did an excellent job down there in
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Austin. Silver medalist Julian Alfred
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coached by well, of course we've got Cedric Florial here again
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and then bronze medalist what? I don't know if it was a
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surprise. She did an amazing job.
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We've got Brittany Brown coached by, oh, the great Boogie
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Johnson. Haven't had Boogie on the
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podcast, but we had had his brother Chris on the podcast.
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All right, moving down to the 400 meter dash, we start with
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the men. We've got gold medalist Quincy
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Hall coached by, well, this is a Gill Podcast alum here.
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We've got the great Mouse Holloway coming in here.
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I don't think this will be the last time we see his name on
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here. Quincy Hall, gold medalist
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coached by Mouse Holloway, silver medalist Matthew Hudson
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Smith, coached by Lance Brahman. Oh man, I didn't know that.
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That's awesome, man. Lance getting it done.
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Bronze medalist here in the 400. I've got Muzala Samu Kanga
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again. Appreciate your patience with
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the pronunciations. Coached by Douglas Kalemo.
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Great job, Coach Kalemo. That's a big deal, getting a
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medalist. Women's 400 gold medalist Mar
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Lighty Mar Lighty Paulino coached by Yasin Perez.
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Gomez. Great job, Coach Gomez.
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Silver medalist Salwa ID Nazer. Coached by Jose Rubio of the
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Dominican Republic and bronze medalist in the women's 400,
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Natalie Kasmarik. Coached by Merrick Rose Edge.
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Great job, coaches. What a grueling event.
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Way to bring home medals at the Olympics, the Paris Olympics.
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All right, let's move down to the 800 meter dash.
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So we've got in first place in our gold medalist here, we've
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got Emmanuel Wanjani, and he is coached by Claudio Berardelli.
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Berardelli coach, Priorideli Coach B bringing home the gold
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medal there, silver medalist. We've got Marco Arop coached by
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this is this is a little embarrassing.
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He's coached by Chris Woods. Here's why it's embarrassing
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because I'm old, because I worked with Chris Woods.
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I helped coach Chris during his undergrad years at Mississippi
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State and he is, he's getting it done as the head coach there at
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Mississippi State. Obviously using a lot of the
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things that I taught him to help bring home a silver medalist in
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the 800. All jokes, Chris is getting it
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done on his own and so just absolutely proud of him.
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Bronze medalist in the men's 800, we've got to Jamel Sajati
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coached by Amar Benita Benaita. Over on the women's side, we've
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got gold medalist Keely Hodgkinson coached by Trevor
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Painter and Jenny Meadows. Great job of teamwork.
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That's not the easiest thing to do.
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Proud of you guys. Down on the silver medalist,
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we've got Tasigi Dugumu Duguma coached by Alumu Wakjira, and
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the bronze medalist there, Mary Mora, coached by Alex Sang.
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Great job coaches. 800 meter dash.
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Next we move to the 1500 meter dash.
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It's getting so fast, it's probably could be considered a
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dash, right? Gold medalist.
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Boy, this was a fun race to watch.
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We've got Cole Hawker coached by Ben Thomas, great job coach
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Thomas. We've got silver medalist Josh
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Kurt, coached by Danny Mackey over there at the Brooks Beast,
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and we've got bronze medalist Yared Nagusu.
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The Goose is Loose, coached by Dothan Ritzenheim over on in
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Boulder, Co Women's 1500, we've got gold medalist Faith
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Kipyegon. Well, she's amazing.
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Coached by Patrick Sang. Great job coach Sang.
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What a a journey you guys have been through there with Faith
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and bringing her up to some astronomical amazing
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performances. Great job Coach Sang silver
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medalist there on the 1500 meter for Paris Olympics.
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We got Jessica Hole coached by Pete Julian and our bronze
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medalist Georgia Bell coached by Trevor Painter and Jenny
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Meadows. So the gold medalist in the 800
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and the bronze medalist in the 1500 coached by the pair of
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Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows.
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Now we move down to our 5K medalist and their coaches.
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We've got the gold medalist in the men's 5K, Jacob, I think it
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is Jacob Inger Brickson, coached by his dad, Gert Inger, Gert
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Arne Inger Ingerbritskin. I knew I'd stutter over that
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several times. Great job, coaches.
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That's awesome. There in the 5K, the silver
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medalist, Ronald Quinoa. Quinoa, coached by Renato
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Canova. I know I've heard Coach Canova's
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name several times throughout my career.
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Doing an amazing job. And bronze medalist in the men's
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5K, Grant Fisher, coached by Mike Scannell, his coach in High
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school, Park City, UT. That's amazing.
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I love seeing high school coaches getting it done on all
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levels. They are worthy, they are
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awesome, they are professionals. Absolutely love it.
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Women's 5K, we've got gold medalist Beatrice Shabbe,
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coached by Gabriel Kiptanu, silver medalist.
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We see this name several places, right?
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Faith Kibyegon, again coached by Patrick Sang.
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And we've got another amazing big name here in bronze medal
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for the 5K, Saffan Hassan, coached by Tim Roberry over at
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Utah Valley. Amazing job 5.
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Ki don't like to drive 5K, so that's just absolutely
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fascinating to me. If I don't like to drive 5K, you
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certainly know I don't like to drive 10K.
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Here we go. The gold medalist for the 10K,
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the Paris Olympics, Joshua Chiptege Chiptegai coached by
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Addie Ruder Ryder, silver medalist.
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B Rahu Aragawi, coached by Irufu Burhanu and bronze medalist.
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We've seen it before. Again, coach Mike Scannell
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getting it done with Grant Fisher.
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What a great team, getting bronze medal in the 5K and the
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10K at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Huge shout out to these coaches.
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This, you know, I know this is a little bit of an unconventional
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episode here. You're going to hear my voice
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the whole way through and I'm just reading out names and
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butchering those names. But it's important for me.
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It's important to our profession that we uplift and honor these
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amazing men and women who are getting it done On the coaching
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side. They they never get their name
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rung out and I know they don't want necessarily their name to
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be rung out, but I want their name to be rung out because they
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deserve it. Here we are on the women's 10K,
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gold medalist, Beatrice Shabay. That is Gabriel Kitanu, That's
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who her coach is. So Beatrice was the gold
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medalist in the 5K and the 10K. So shout out to Kitanu managing
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that energy systems and getting it done to win both gold and two
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events, which that's, you know, win one.
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That's absolutely amazing. Win 2.
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Unheard of silver medalist in the women's 10K, Nadia Batoch.
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I thought I was going to nail it.
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Nadia Batochletti, coached by her dad, Giuliano Batochletti.
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Man, thank you so much for your patience on these names.
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I'm, you know, I barely can say my own name.
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Bronze medalist. Here we go again in the 10K
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we've got Stefan Hassan pushed by Tim Roberry over at Utah
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Valley. All right let's move to one of
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my favorite events and that is the hurdles, the high hurdles.
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Let's start with the men in the 110 we've got.
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I told you we'd see his name again.
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So gold medalist, the great Grant Holloway, coached by Mouse
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Holloway. Love that team what a great
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Holloway squared team getting it done the most sub thirteens
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ever. I mean, just absolutely
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phenomenal, absolutely love what they're getting done.
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And then we've got silver medalist Daniel Roberts coached
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by man, come on, Alan Johnson, currently the head coach of NCA
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and T, and bronze medalist Rashid Broadbill, coached by
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Ronaldo Walcott. Amazing job coaches, absolutely
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fantastic. Speaking of fantastic, the
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women's high hurdles, who knew who was going to win and place
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in these because what an event the women's 100 hurdles is right
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now all across the world. But in the gold medal, getting
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it done, Messiah Russell, coached by Gill Podcast alum.
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That's right. You can hear his journey right
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here on the Gill Podcast. The great Lonnie Green head
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coach over at Kentucky, silver medalist in the women's hunter
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hurdles, Serena Samba Mayeli, and I'm going to name these two
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in a row. The third place, Jasmine Camacho
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Quinn, because they're both coached by John Coughlin down
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there in Florida, getting it done with the women's hurdles
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and getting both silver and bronze medalist.
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Congratulations, coaches. Fantastic.
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Let's go to the long hurdles. Let's start with the men's 400
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intermediate hurdles. We've got gold medalist Rye
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Benjamin, coached by head coach of UCLA, Joanna Hayes.
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What a great journey they have been through together in
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culminating this gold medal here in Paris 2024.
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Second place, the Viking. Carsten Warholm, the silver
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medalist coached by Leif Olaf alms.
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Great job getting it done together as a team.
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Gold, bronze medalist here in the foreigner hurdles, we've got
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Allison dos Santos, coached by Philippe de Sequin del Silva.
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I know Mr. Philippe, I'm pretty sure I butchered your name, but
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congratulations, you did an awesome job helping your
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athlete, Allison Dosantos get to the podium and the bronze medal
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and the men's foreigner hurdles. All right, 400 hurdles for the
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women coming up here. Now we've got Sydney McLaughlin,
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Leverone gold medalist. What a fantastic event this has
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become. They're all stepping up doing a
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great job. Gold medalist, Sydney coach by
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that's right, the great Bobby Kersey.
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We need Bobby on the podcast too, don't you agree?
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If anybody has contact info from Bobby, shoot it over to me
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through text or Twitter or something.
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I'd I'd like to get Bobby's journey on the podcast Silver
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medalist. This was absolutely fantastic.
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So proud of silver medalist Anna Cockrell coach by that's right,
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Boogie shows up again. Boogie Johnson, now Annas high
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school coach we had on the podcast as well.
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She's currently the head coach of Johnson C Smith, so go check
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that out. And the bronze medalist, man,
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what a battle. Absolutely fantastic Fimke Bowl
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coached by Laurent Muhly, I think is how it's pronounced.
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I've reached out to Laurent on DM through Twitter about getting
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on the podcast. Haven't heard back.
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Hopefully we can make that happen.
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All right, let's go to the long, long hurdles.
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Let's go to the steeple chase here in the men's 3K steeple for
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gold, we've got Sufyan El Bakali coached by Karine Talimkin.
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I think that's how it is. Cream.
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Awesome job, congratulations, proud of you.
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We've got silver medalist Ken Rooks, coached by Man Ed
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Eistone, Absolutely fantastic over at BYU.
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And bronze medalist, we've got Abraham Kibbee Watt, coached by
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Jafter Couture. Congratulations, Coach Couture.
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Excellent, excellent job. On the women's side, we've got
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the gold medalist in the steeple, Winfred Yavi, coached
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by Gregory Calonzo. We've got silver medalist Peruth
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Chimuthai coached by Addie Ryder Reuter.
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We've heard Addie's name before, and bronze medalist Faith
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Cherotach Cherotich, coached by Bernard Rono.
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Congratulations, coach, coaches, Steeplechase.
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Brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal. You got to run nearly 2 miles as
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fast as you can and go over barriers that just don't move.
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It's oh, oh, you got to get wet. Absolutely fantastic coaches.
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Way to really work with your athletes and keep them in the
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game mentally as well as physically.
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All right, let's start heading over to our field events in the
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steeple. A great transition from the
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track to the field. Feels like the steeple might be
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our true track slash field combo event.
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Let's start with the high jumpers, gold medalist Hamish
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Kurt, coached by James Sandilands.
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We've got silver medalist Shelby McEwen, coached by Pat Pyle, and
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we've got bronze medalist Mutaz Barsheen.
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Boy, I've watched Barsheen jump for many, many years, coached by
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Stanislaw. Oh, boy, Scissorriba Szirba.
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Szirba is not what I'm going to go with.
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Coaches. James, Pat, Stanislaw, awesome
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job there in the men's high jump.
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Over on the women's high jump, you've got gold medalist
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Yaroslava Mahuchik, coached by Tatiana Stefanova.
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Great job coach Stefanova, silver medalist Nicola Alice,
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Loggers coached by Matt Horsnell and then we had a tie for bronze
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medalist. So the two bronze medalist are
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Irina Zarashinko and Eleanor Patterson.
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Arena's coached by Arena Pustovoit and Eleanor is coached
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by Alex Stewart. Great job Alex, Arena, Matt and
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Tatiano and the women's high jump coaches.
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You are getting it done in my one of my favorite events to
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coach is the high jump. Love it.
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Great job, coaches. All right, let's go to the pole
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vault. Here we go with the gold
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medalist. Of course, it's Armand
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Duplantis, also known, better known as the Viking.
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No, no, no, no. The Viking destroyer.
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No, no, no, no, no. Also known as Mondo, of course.
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Here he is in the gold medalist, coached by his dad, Greg
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Duplantis. Great job, coach.
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Great job, dad. The silver medalist goes to my
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friend here, Sam Kendricks, also coached by his dad, Scott
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Kendricks. And then this is interesting.
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I don't think this is any other event.
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So in the bronze medals we have Imanu, Imanuil, Corralis,
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Corralis coached by his, I think it's his dad, Harry Corralis.
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So in the men's pole vault, Mondo, Sam and Imanu all coached
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by their dads. So maybe there's something there
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that's interesting. So congratulations coaches in
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the men's pole vault. Women's pole vault, we've got
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Nina Kennedy bringing home the gold medal for Australia,
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coached by Paul Burgess, silver medalist Katie Moon coached by
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Brad Walker and 3rd place we've got Alicia Newman coached by
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good friend Jarrell Langley. Great job coaches in the women's
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pole vault, let's play in the sand here with the long jump
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coming up next. And the gold medalist for the
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men's, we've got Mil Tiades Tintaglu from Greece, coached by
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Georgie Pomoski, great job, Georgie.
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And the silver medalist we got Wayne Pinnock, coached by oh
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man, new head coach of K State, Travis Gepford.
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Great job Travis, really proud of you.
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Third place in the long jump. The bronze medalist in the men's
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long jump, we got Mattia for Lani from Italy, coached by his
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dad. Lot of dads coaching here, his
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dad, Marcelo for Lani. So congratulations, coaches.
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Awesome over on the women's long jump.
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Well, it seems like the long jump guru is Trevor Gifford
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because the gold medalist, Tara Davis Woodhall, coached by Coach
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Gepford, the new head coach of Kansas State, Great job, silver
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medalist in the women's long jump, Malaki Mahambo, coached by
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Uli Nop. And then we've got bronze
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medalist Jasmine Moore coached by oh, great guy, great coach
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Nick Peterson over there at the University of Florida.
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So congratulations to Travis, Uli and Nick in the women's long
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jumping coaches are you're getting it done.
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It's absolutely fascinating. Now we move to the triple jump.
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Let's do it three times. So here in the men's triple
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jump, we start with gold medalist Jordan Alejandro Diaz,
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coached by Ivan Pedroso. Isn't that a name?
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That's very cool. Silver medalist Pedro Pichardo,
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coached by his dad. We got another dad here, Jorge
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Pichardo. And bronze medalist in the men's
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triple jump, Andy Diaz Hernandez coached by Fabrioso Donato.
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Women's triple jump, We start with our gold medalist, Thea
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Lafon, coached by her husband. So still stay in the family
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here. Her husband, Aaron Gadson, Great
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job, Aaron, great job. Thea silver medalist in the
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women's triple jump, Shanika Ricketts, coached by her
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husband, Carrie Lee Ricketts. So that's two husband wife teams
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in the women's triple jump in a row.
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And then bronze medalist. Well, we have a repeat performer
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here. We've got Jasmine Moore, once
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again coached by Nick Peterson. Man, a lot of repeat names,
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lightning in a bottle to do it once.
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I can't imagine what kind of lottery winner you got to be to
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be able to coach more than one medalist at the Olympics.
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Let's go throw some things here. Let's go with the men's shot
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put. We've got gold medalist, known
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this guy for a long time, his dad what a great family we've
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got. Of course Ryan Krauser training
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his self at the University of Arkansas.
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I know he's had helped and and coached by many people.
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If you interested in what Ryan does, he has a phenomenal
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YouTube channel. Shows a lot of the insides of
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what he's doing. Man, really proud of Ryan and
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what he's getting done there in the shot put.
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Silver medalist, good friend, talk to him a lot.
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What a great combo here. Coach, athlete.
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We've got silver medalist Joe Kovacs, coach by Ashley Kovacs,
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no slouch of a thrower herself back in the day.
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Ashley and Joe are just absolutely phenomenal, doing an
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amazing job winning the silver medal here in the 2024 Paris
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Olympics. And then bronze medalist here
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for the shot put we've got, Rajendra, I believe is how you
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pronounce the first name. Campbell, coached by Brian Allen
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over there at Missouri Southern. Man, what a great program, what
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a great coach. Brian, congratulations to you
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and to Ashley and Ryan himself coaching their medalist there in
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the 2024 Olympics, Women's shot put.
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We've got gold medalist Yumisi Ogun Leahy, I believe is how you
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pronounce that last name. Coach by Iris monkey rhymers
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Mankey monkey monkey MANKE Iris monkey Rhymers.
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Congratulations. A second place silver medalist
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here in the women's shop put Madison Lee, Weshie Maddie
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affectionately known because her coach is Mike Schofield.
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And if you weren't aware, we had Mike Scofield on the podcast
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here a few weeks ago. Go check it out.
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It was absolutely phenomenal to hear about his insights to
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coaching and what it took to get the silver medalist silver medal
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here at Paris 2024, third place in the women's shot.
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The bronze medalist, Song JA Yuan, coached by SU Sui.
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SU SUI SU Zen Mai, I believe is how it's pronounced.
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Let's go to the discus here. We've got gold medalist Rohay
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Stona coached by coach Krauser and coach Newell, Coach Newell,
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John Newell, you know, more famously known as my birthday
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twin. We both celebrate our birthdays
23:35
on the exact same day. So proud of Ryan, proud of John
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for winning the gold medal there in the men's discus.
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Silver medalist in the discus is Mikolas Electna, coached by
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another guy that's going to be on the podcast soon in season 6.
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I almost guarantee it. That's MO Satara over there at
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Cal Berkley. And then bronze medalist here,
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Matthew Denny, always getting it done, steps up big in the
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championships, coached by Dale Stevenson.
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Awesome job to Ryan, John, MO and Dale for the men's discus.
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Women's discus. Was there any surprise?
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Well, none of it's ever easy, so it was a surprise.
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They're always working hard. They're always battling.
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And that is gold medalist, women's discus Valerie Allman,
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coached by Zeb Zion, now at Texas, known as ZEB for a long
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time, does an absolutely phenomenal job.
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Really proud of of Zeb and what he's getting done there.
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So gold medalist in the women's discus, Valerie Allman, coached
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by Zeb Zion. Silver medalist in the women's
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discus, Fin Bin over in China, coached by Lee Wyden.
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I believe that's how you pronounce that.
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And bronze medalist in the women's discus, Sandra Elka
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Savitch, coached by her husband, Another husband and wife team
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here, Edis El Kos, El Kosovic, El Kosovic, El Kosovic, there we
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go. If you're still listening, God
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bless you. I love you and thank you for
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helping me celebrate. Track coaches around the world
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here. We're coming into our last three
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events here and we've got the hammer events.
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Men's hammer gold medalist Ethan Katzberg, coached by Dylan
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Armstrong. Dylan, excellent thrower himself
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back in the day. Love and just proud of you,
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Dylan becoming one of the top coaches in the world here,
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getting a hammer gold medal, silver medal, men's hammer.
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We've got Bin Say Halas coached by Zolt Nemeth and then the
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bronze medalist, Mikalo Miguelo Cocon Michaelo Cocon coached by
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Sir Hi Kakan K OK, Han Kakan, Kakan.
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Great job, coaches. Awesome job there in the men's
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hammer, women's hammer. We got a repeat here.
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We've got gold medalist Cameron Rodgers, coach by that's right,
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MO Satara getting it done. Men's discus and women's hammer.
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That's hard. Love it.
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Congratulations, MO Proud of you.
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Silver medalist in the hammer. Annette.
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It it chink Kung woke, I believe it's how you're pronounced.
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And she's coached by Gill podcast alum Susan Seton.
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That's right, Susan over there at Cincinnati Bearcats.
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We've had her on the podcast. Absolutely fascinating
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background originating from Germany.
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You got to go listen to that one.
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It's quite amazing. And then the bronze medalist for
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the hammer. We know it's Zhao Zhai from
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China, but I could not find the coach.
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So if anybody knows, bronze medalist in the women's hammer,
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Zhao Zhai's coach would love to be able to uplift and honor that
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individual. They did an amazing job.
26:35
All right, we've got men's javelin gold medalist Arshad
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Nadeem, and he's coached by, it's listed as consultant, but,
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you know, I consider that all the same thing.
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Tersius Liebenberg, great job. Tersius.
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Silver medalist Niraj Chopra coached by Klaus Barton, Knights
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and then we've got third place bronze medalist Anderson Peters
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coached by Paul Phillips. We've had Anderson Peters
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college coach on the podcast too, so go go look that up as
27:06
well. Women's javelin, we've got gold
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medalist Kitaguchi Haruka coached by David Sakarik.
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Sakarik, the silver medalist, Joanne Van Dyke, coached by
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Teresius Liebenberg. So there we go.
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We've got another double. We've got the men's javelin and
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the women's. Men's javelin gold and the
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women's javelin. Silver medalist by Teresius
27:28
Liebenberg. Awesome job, Teresius, you're
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doing an amazing job. Bronze medalist.
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In the women's jab, we got Nicola Agro Dinakova coached by
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Vitiz Vitizelab Viselli and then one of the brutal events here.
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We've got the multis, the combined events.
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Don't at me on Twitter 'cause I said multi.
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The combined events. Let's start with a decathlon.
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We've got gold medalist Marcus Ruth, coached by his dad.
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That's been Ruth, I love that. Keep it in the family there.
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Silver medalist Leo. I don't know how I was known as
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Leo. not a Bauer. Not a Bauer of Germany, coached
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by great friend, assistant coach, getting it done an
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amazing job. So proud of this guy coached by
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Jim Garnum. And then we've got bronze
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medalist. Man, this has been a journey I
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loved. I choked up a little bit seeing
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this bronze medalist and what he's done.
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He's been around the game for a long time.
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He deserves this. His coaches deserve this.
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Bronze medalist Lyndon Victor, coached by the great Marissa Chu
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and Chris Huffins. Both of them have our Gill
28:31
podcast alums as well. Marissa was our first Shoe was
28:36
our first two time guest on the podcast and so just proud of
28:41
shoe, proud of Huff and sticking to it and doing an amazing job
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with Lyndon. Congratulations guys.
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Women's combined event, the heptathlon, the gold medalist
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Nafi Theum coached by Michael Vander Platzen, silver medalist
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Katarina Johnson. Wait, cut off, I think it's
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Thomas coached by Aston Moore and then bronze medalist of
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athlete Noor Vitz, coached by Fernando Alleva.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that is your coaches of the gold, silver
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and bronze medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Uplift and honor these individuals.
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If you see them speaking at clinics, if you see them on
29:20
social media, gas them up. They did it at the highest
29:24
level, the Olympics. What goes into getting to the
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Olympics, what goes to into competing at the Olympics and
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making sure you are on top on your game at that very moment.
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It's it, it's that catching in the bottle.
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It it's an amazing and you need a coach to be able to guide you
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through that process. And so, so proud of the men and
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women who have coached medalist in the individual events here in
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Paris 2024. Thank you so much for listening.
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Our goal is always to uplift and honor the people who choose to
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be track coaches. And we thought this might be a
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unique way to do it for the Olympics because we don't always
30:02
get to hear about these men and women.
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So congratulations to you all. I'm very, very proud of you.
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We are all very, very proud of you.
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Can't wait to see what happens next year in the 2025 World
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Champs 2627 and of course LA 28 right here in America, right
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over in California. Super excited to see it in
30:19
person and watch coaches get her done.
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Thanks for being here. Join us next week.
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We'll do it all over again with a coach and learn their journey.
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Thanks everybody.