This Week In Track: Olli Hoare vs. Cole Hocker At Millrose Games, Contract Silly Season, Greatest Boston Marathon Fields Ever, Paris 2024 Schedule Released
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, it's silly season in the track and field world with athletes switching teams and signing new contracts. The Boston Marathon unveiled its deepest fields maybe ever. The Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile and men's 800 fields were released. World Athletics has posted the schedule for all athletics action at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
3:25 – Recent athlete signings & moves: Natosha Rogers to PUMA Elite | Josette Norris to On Athletics Club | David Ribich to Union Athletics Club | Charlie Grice, Eric Avila to Very Nice Track Club | Paige Stoner, Cruz Culpepper to HOKA NAZ Elite | Stephanie Bruce unretires, re-signs with HOKA NAZ Elite
11:15 – Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile: Olli Hoare is back to defend his Wanamaker mile title after setting the indoor Australian mile record with last year's 3:50.83 victory. His biggest challengers this year include Cole Hocker, Mario Garcia Romo, Yared Nuguse, Johnny Gregorek, Sam Tanner, Sam Prakel, Neil Gourley + more.
15:57 – Millrose Games Men's 800m: Bryce Hoppel returns after last year's victory but will be up against Clayton Murphy, Noah Kibet and Cade Flatt.
18:09 – The Boston Marathon fields include Eliud Kipchoge, Evan Chebet, Benson Kipruto, Albert Korir, Daniel Do Nascimento, Conner Mantz and Scott Fauble on the men's side. There are five women with sub-2:18 marathon PRs and the big stars are Amane Beriso, Sharon Lokedi, Lonah Salpeter, Sara Hall, Gotytom Gebreslase, Emma Bates and Edna Kiplagat.
26:57 – World Athletics' 2024 Olympic schedule has all evening finals. Track and field at the Games will be held from Aug. 1 to 11.
32:58 – Buy or Sell: World Bests, World Record Pending Ratification*, Off Distances, Jake Wightman Losing, Bobby Kersee, Track Meets In Los Angeles.
42:17 – What else is happening inside CITIUS MAG
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the City's Mac podcast. I'm Chris Chavez. I'm Kyle Merber. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Matt Fleet. On today's show, it is silly season in track and field with athletes |
| 0:19.3 | switching teams and signing new contracts. The Boston marathon unveiled its deepest field |
| 0:25.1 | maybe ever. The Milrose Games want to make her mile and men's 800 were also released. |
| 0:30.7 | And then world athletics told us what the Paris 2024 schedule is like and we'll close |
| 0:35.2 | it out with our buy or sell segment as usual. But first, Kyle, what all pop flavor you |
| 0:41.2 | drinking? Because I've got a strawberry vanilla in front of me. I'm making my way through |
| 0:44.8 | all the flavors. As of right now, tropical punch is still my favorite. |
| 0:48.4 | Cool. So I actually I had a funny how I'll pop story. You know, daycare kids bring home |
| 0:56.2 | crazy things. And so Lisa brought home a stomach bug. And so like our whole family was, you |
| 1:02.8 | know, sick at the same time. The spent Friday night throwing up, you know, all night, |
| 1:08.5 | all night. Woke up Saturday morning miserable. Finally feeling a little bit better. I get |
| 1:13.2 | up out of bed. I go down to the crib. I pick up Alicia and I come back into the room. |
| 1:18.6 | Luckily, don't I'm not holding at this point. I fainted like what? Like I actually fainted, |
| 1:26.0 | collapsed. The only time that ever happened to me previously was I was in Mexico for knack |
| 1:32.2 | acts. And that was at altitude. And I got up to answer the door and I collapsed like after |
| 1:37.8 | saying hello to room service and that we didn't need turned down. But I collapsed this weekend. |
| 1:43.0 | Like full on fainted, really scary. Luckily, didn't hit anything. And then as soon as my stomach |
| 1:48.8 | felt like it was okay to like consume liquids again. In my head, I was like, well, you know, |
| 1:53.8 | mom used to say drink flat coke or, you know, like ginger ale. So I got a vintage cola |
| 1:59.5 | olipop and say that brought me back to life. That was the start of my resurgence. So I don't |
| 2:07.8 | know if that's like doctor recommended or olipop recommended, but it was my first liquid in many |
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