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Speaker 1: burst on the team on the scene. Now, I'm not

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Speaker 2: Facts, I'm not gonna take anything from it.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to sprinting, and and and it's

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Speaker 1: when you look at Oho, a country that size you're

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Speaker 2: You know what four million people? Yea.

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Speaker 1: And to have the greatest I mean, and and and

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Speaker 2: I mean they've always Merlin Naddi.

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Speaker 1: Uh, she never won gold, but you know she was

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Speaker 1: want to say anything, but y'all know, y'all know what

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Speaker 2: I mean we right there.

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Speaker 1: I know y'all think the Jamaica's you know, been running face.

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Speaker 1: But go back and look at it. Go back and

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Speaker 1: look it up. I know y'all only go back to

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Speaker 2: I'm just you know, I just said. I just say it.

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Speaker 1: If you look at it, if you look at it,

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Speaker 1: Comfortable, y'all have I feel y'all have the greatest male

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Speaker 1: sprinter woman sprinter? Is Shelle apraise your price? Absolutely, I'm

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Speaker 1: I mean, five world championships, two Olympic goals, a two

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Speaker 1: I don't need to say hey, you just say you

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make it two for two sweep steaks.

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Speaker 2: Hey, m J.

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Speaker 1: And y'all already. Noah got something y'all oblique seeing the

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Speaker 2: Y'all want some? Y'all want smoke? Yeah? All my fellow Jamaicans, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love you, every last one of you. I give

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Speaker 1: Look, first of all, it is an upset because Noah

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Speaker 4: I'm feeling good, Thank y'all. I told you I was

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Speaker 2: You told you?

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Speaker 1: Hey, you say I said, when you win that gold

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Speaker 1: So you're going into it. So obviously is your coach

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Speaker 1: Do you believe if you get a positive Taiale win,

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Speaker 4: Absolutely? I thought I was going to run ten five

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Speaker 5: Like I've always had the frequency, but in the past,

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Speaker 1: if I fall start. If I don't false start, they

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Speaker 5: And it's true because I think it's crazy because I

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Speaker 4: Like I feel like this year, my best.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, is it.

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Speaker 1: Is it a situation like that where you feel you

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Speaker 4: You only get the tanks?

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Speaker 1: When when you think about it, no, American woman, and

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Speaker 1: she run ten sixty four. We got your carry at

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Speaker 4: Well, excuse you, what you're talking about? Actually to my

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Speaker 5: So but then it's just like a testament to the

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Speaker 5: So I'm like, okay, Melissa, Like what are you actually

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 1: So those are my favorable conditions. Cold and rain the

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Speaker 1: He wants it. They wanted to be cool. But as

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Speaker 2: you yet said what damn?

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Speaker 1: Did you did you know? Did you did you have

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Speaker 5: clear the pack, you got to clear the pack. And

439
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Speaker 5: then I got to the military race, and then it

440
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 5: kind of went blank for a second, and then the

441
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 5: closer we got to the line, I was just like,

442
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Speaker 5: don't do that thing you do where you like roll

443
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Speaker 5: your shoulders, get off crazy. I just went through the line,

444
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 5: and then after I read through the line, was kind

445
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 5: of like, oh, I think I won, but I need

446
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Speaker 5: to know. I need to see it with my old

447
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 5: eyes that I actually won. So I didn't really feel

448
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Speaker 5: myself hit that other gale. It was just about really

449
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Speaker 5: like just trying to trying to stay clear of everybody else.

450
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Speaker 2: Are you? Are you nervous before racist?

451
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Speaker 3: I think about football games and right before kickoff the

452
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Speaker 3: music is playing, and before they kick the ball off,

453
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Speaker 3: I got butterflies in.

454
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Speaker 2: My stomach is tight.

455
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Speaker 3: I'm nervous until I actually have contact or I catch

456
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Speaker 3: a touch a ball like it's almost I don't want

457
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Speaker 3: to use the word scared, but nervous as before a

458
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Speaker 3: race like that, before you go in the blox, is

459
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Speaker 3: there are your nerves?

460
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Speaker 2: Okay, how do you calm yourself down?

461
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Speaker 5: Uh? The biggest thing I do is just listen to music,

462
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Speaker 5: and I kind of get a sense of that too,

463
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Speaker 5: like leading up. So I was here about maybe a

464
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Speaker 5: week before we started actually competing, because we had relay

465
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Speaker 5: camp and everything. So I think that was probably the

466
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Speaker 5: longest week of my life because it was just like, Okay, Melissa,

467
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Speaker 5: you know you're ready to run. There's no need to

468
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Speaker 5: be anxious, like, just let the days go by. And

469
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Speaker 5: then the time difference here was crazy. So the first

470
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Speaker 5: couple of days it was like, no matter how late

471
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Speaker 5: I tried to go to sleep, I was still waking

472
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Speaker 5: up at four or five am. And then it was

473
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Speaker 5: like I finally got to the point to where I

474
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Speaker 5: was waking up at six. I'm like, Okay, that's a

475
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 5: little bit of progress. But then it was just still

476
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Speaker 5: like trying to get to the line. So I think

477
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Speaker 5: if anything, like I don't be really really nervous, I

478
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Speaker 5: just be I just have like a lot of I

479
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 5: be anxious in a sense, but I'm also like you too,

480
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Speaker 5: Like the minute I get to the warm up area

481
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Speaker 5: and I start warming up, I'm like, okay, let's do

482
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Speaker 5: this like I'm ready now.

483
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're in your element.

484
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Speaker 4: M h yes, exactly in my element. We're safe.

485
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this relay now, I don't know who's

486
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Speaker 1: going to be on the relay. I'm sure you and

487
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Speaker 1: should carry because you guys made finals. You're the fastest

488
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Speaker 1: woman in the world. I don't know if we've seen

489
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Speaker 1: the situation where the fastest woman in the world run

490
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Speaker 1: lead off because you're such an outstanding starter and so

491
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to share because the

492
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Speaker 1: relays are gonna probably come after the two hundred, so

493
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Speaker 1: you probably have some other women that's gonna, you know, qualify.

494
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Speaker 1: Have you guys decided on a race order?

495
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's pretty I would say it's pretty much

496
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Speaker 5: set in stone. I think what's gonna end up happening

497
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Speaker 5: is that this is just as of today. Obviously, I

498
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Speaker 5: know that I will be leading it off and then

499
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Speaker 5: my train basically I'll be on through. It'll be my

500
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Speaker 5: training partners on the YEP. So me to t T too,

501
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Speaker 5: Kayla White to Sha Carrie is the lasts I've heard

502
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Speaker 5: of last i've heard of anything.

503
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Speaker 4: This is like unofficial.

504
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Speaker 5: Okay, so if something changes, just say, okay, that's what

505
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Speaker 5: I'm saying, disclay.

506
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Speaker 1: So think about that, Joe. We got the fastest woman

507
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Speaker 1: in the world running lead off. Hey, the stagger already called.

508
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Speaker 2: I don't know who, y'all. I don't know who.

509
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Speaker 1: Hey, we probably gonna get laying five, but six seven

510
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Speaker 1: and eight nine, y'all these stat of chair y'all buy

511
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Speaker 1: what just a I'll switching to that order because you're

512
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Speaker 1: not finna make me look bad and walk this have

513
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Speaker 1: the stagger walking down on me? Because what's the head

514
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Speaker 1: is caught? What's behind stage behind? That was what coach

515
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Speaker 1: used to tell her some what his head is caught?

516
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Speaker 1: What's behind stage behind? Because you already know she gonna

517
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Speaker 1: eat up that stagger, because ain't nobody else got their

518
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Speaker 1: best runners on the on the first leg.

519
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Speaker 2: Most people put.

520
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Speaker 1: Their horses, They put them at the second, and they

521
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Speaker 1: put them at the third. Occasionally they're freaking of the

522
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Speaker 1: anchor leg. But you could be so far behind. It

523
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter unless you saying, but it ain't. Nobody got

524
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Speaker 1: no you saying. We got you saying, is she running first?

525
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Speaker 1: Leg for the America.

526
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Speaker 4: Y'all.

527
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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, you need to hit them, Hey, hit them

528
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Speaker 1: with that piece out. Hey, just get the baton around

529
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Speaker 1: the track. That's all you gotta do. You we got

530
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Speaker 1: the fastest four women.

531
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Speaker 2: Let me take that back. We got the fastest six women.

532
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Speaker 1: You take everybody, six women that's currently gonna be in

533
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Speaker 1: this relay. We got the fastest six. Get the sticks

534
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Speaker 1: around the track. That's all you gotta do. Yep, that's

535
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Speaker 1: all we gotta do. We got this, We got this.

536
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Speaker 1: We got that yet because we got it to a

537
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Speaker 1: great start. We won the gold, and the and the

538
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Speaker 1: woman's discuss. We won the Krowser won the shot, his first,

539
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Speaker 1: his first, his first meet, all year, all year, three

540
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Speaker 1: time Olympic gold, three time World champion, holding the second

541
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Speaker 1: man to win three consecutive world championship. Oh we will do. Hey,

542
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Speaker 1: what the hell are we wanna? We done one of

543
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Speaker 1: the weather gold and something didn't we? Oh, we're gonna

544
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Speaker 1: win the gold. We're gonna Hey, we're gonna get this

545
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Speaker 1: gold in the hunter beat hurdle too. Cordell Tins, I'm

546
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Speaker 1: going on the record, Cordill Tin is gonna get the gold.

547
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Speaker 1: I'm going with Cordell. I'm going to Cordelle.

548
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, for sure.

549
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Speaker 2: He's been running great, he's really been.

550
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Speaker 1: He's the only one that's going on to thirteen A

551
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Speaker 1: lot of guys thirteen flat thirteen oh one, thirteen five

552
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Speaker 1: thirteen ten. Hey, he can cover some ground. So I'm

553
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Speaker 1: going with Cordell, Going with Cordell. You up saying Cordell,

554
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Speaker 1: but I think so have So when you win the

555
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Speaker 1: gold and you go back to your room, can you

556
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Speaker 1: rest or were you just so excited, like you just

557
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Speaker 1: look at it like that goal, like damn.

558
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Speaker 5: So what's crazy is after after we do media and

559
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 5: then the other things I've waited, we got back to

560
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Speaker 5: the hotel room, and then I actually had a chance

561
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Speaker 5: to meet up with my family and everything. So my

562
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Speaker 5: parents and I have aunts, uncles, and cousins out here too,

563
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Speaker 5: so I had a pretty good crowd of people to

564
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Speaker 5: come all the way over here to support me.

565
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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: I spend some time with them and that was good.

567
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Speaker 5: And then by the time I think I got to

568
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 5: bed maybe around three am, but I was actually probably

569
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Speaker 5: my if. I slept for six hours, and I feel

570
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Speaker 5: like that's one really Yeah, because last year after Paris,

571
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Speaker 5: I slept for all of like three and then woke

572
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 5: up the next morning was on my phone just checking everything.

573
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Speaker 2: So, so, who who's d M you? And said congratulations?

574
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Speaker 1: Have Is there any like celebs or athletes or entertainers

575
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 1: that's congratulated you?

576
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 4: Okay? So I have.

577
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: I have one.

578
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 4: I have to make sure I say his last name right.

579
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Speaker 4: But his name is Daniel. I believe it's Daniel Daniel LaBelle,

580
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Speaker 4: daniel Lebelle.

581
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Speaker 2: So he who's he?

582
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Speaker 5: He's really big on social media. He posts like different.

583
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 4: Videos and it's it'd be like the little funny stuff.

584
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 4: He'd be like.

585
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 5: I believe one time he raced against speed. Okay, but yeah,

586
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 5: I just like his videos. It's like, uh, he has

587
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 5: like eight one point eight point one million followers and

588
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Speaker 5: I saw he he messaged me.

589
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Speaker 4: He was like congratulations, and I was like, oh my god,

590
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 4: thank you.

591
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: We got to get your followers up too. We got

592
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Speaker 1: to get you up in three four million. Yeah, y'all

593
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Speaker 1: do it's a favorite. Go follow Uh give give, give,

594
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: give them your time, give them your handle.

595
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Speaker 2: How can they find you on Twitter?

596
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 4: Okay?

597
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 5: Okay, so on Twitter, my name is at Melissa M

598
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Speaker 5: B L I S S A jan A j A

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Speaker 5: N A E twenty one okay, and then on Instagram,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, on I G it's at underscore underscore Melissa

601
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Speaker 5: J nineteen.

602
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Speaker 2: Wow. Were you always fanst Melissa? I mean growing up

603
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Speaker 2: in South Carolina?

604
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Speaker 3: Uh?

605
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Speaker 2: Could you?

606
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you have siblings. What

607
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: were you the Were you the fastest girl in the neighborhood?

608
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: Were you the fastest? Could you outrun the boards.

609
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Speaker 4: Some of them?

610
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Speaker 5: Some of them I could. It was it was definitely

611
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 5: like that. But I was like always fast on like

612
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Speaker 5: the level that I was. So I went to a

613
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Speaker 5: smaller school my high school. I'm from the So the

614
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Speaker 5: high school was like we went back and forth between

615
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Speaker 5: one A and two A. And it's South Carolina, you know,

616
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Speaker 5: that's like real small. My graduating class was probably like

617
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Speaker 5: my husband will laugh of you, but it's probably like

618
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Speaker 5: eighty kids.

619
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well i'd with sixty.

620
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Speaker 5: Okay, So yeah, so about eighty kids in my graduating class.

621
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Speaker 5: And then Coastal Carolina. You know, obviously it's a smaller

622
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Speaker 5: D one school yep, shines up and then so that

623
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Speaker 5: was like a smaller D one school too.

624
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Speaker 4: So it's pretty much.

625
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Speaker 5: Like I've lived the underdog life of just you know,

626
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Speaker 5: being fast at the level that I am and being

627
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Speaker 5: in that area. Then it wasn't until like twenty twenty

628
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Speaker 5: two where everything, like one meet just literally changed everything.

629
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Speaker 2: That's because that's what that's what I was.

630
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Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to ask you, because you said

631
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Speaker 1: I was fast for where I was. It wasn't like

632
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Speaker 1: when you go look at your Carria, she's at Texas

633
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Speaker 1: at a big at a where they got three thousand kids,

634
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Speaker 1: and she runs what she runs and she goes to

635
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Speaker 1: in a freshman year she wins the or you see

636
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 1: Gabby Thomas how she burst on the scene, or you

637
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: see sitting at McLaughlin.

638
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: That wasn't the case for you.

639
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: When did you realize you could be a pro or

640
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: was that always your goal to be a professional track

641
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Speaker 1: and field runner.

642
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 4: I didn't think that I could be a crazy enough.

643
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: I knew that one day I would go to the Olympics.

644
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 5: I didn't know when, but I just knew that I

645
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 5: could because of a coach that I had in high

646
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Speaker 5: school my freshman year high school.

647
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Speaker 4: It's probably I think it was my that was my

648
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 4: second year doing high school track.

649
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Speaker 5: And then when I got to college and I had

650
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 5: the coach there, that's when I was like, you know,

651
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 5: I think I want to do this is what I

652
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 5: want to do for a living.

653
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Speaker 4: And I was.

654
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Speaker 5: I got to college the fall of twenty nineteen, so

655
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Speaker 5: that's when it really just was like, Okay, I know

656
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Speaker 5: this is what I want to do. I don't know

657
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Speaker 5: how I'm gonna get there, but I'm gonna just trust

658
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 5: the people around me to help me get me to

659
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 5: where I'm supposed to be.

660
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 4: So and that's kind of how I went about it.

661
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm looking you know, when you choose to

662
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: do something and it's just you, because track and feel

663
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: is a really lonely is is you versus you, is

664
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: you and your thoughts, it's you, and your training, is

665
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: you and your nutrition, so everything it dependent on you.

666
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: And and a whole lot of money in track and field.

667
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: I mean you can count the probably on like one hand,

668
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: maybe a youth saying that made a bunch of money,

669
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: or someone bows or Michael Phelps, Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis.

670
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: It's not, you know, flushed with money, especially for the women.

671
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: And so what why why would I mean he I mean,

672
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: obviously you go to EU College like I'm gonna get

673
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: a degree, but why track and field? You just had

674
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: something deep down inside of you say you know what,

675
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: I can make a living doing this.

676
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, And then I say it all the time like

677
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 5: I just like this is this is what I was,

678
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 5: this is what I'm here to do, like I'm here

679
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 5: to run, I'm here, Yes, this is my gift that

680
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 5: I'm supposed to be sharing with the world. And so

681
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 5: the minute I got in understanding of that and realize like, obviously,

682
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 5: the higher I go the sport, the more sacrifice were

683
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 5: going to have to make, the more I'm be disciplined,

684
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 5: And like you say, like obviously there's nowhere near as

685
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 5: much money in our sport than there is in like

686
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 5: football or basketball.

687
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 4: But it's also just the resources that you do have.

688
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 5: The money that you do have, being smart with that

689
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 5: and investing in yourself in order to make sure that

690
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 5: you're becoming the best athlete that you could possibly be.

691
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 5: Like I feel and I feel like it was so

692
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 5: easy for me because I grew up always not having

693
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 5: the resources that everybody else had never needed for anything.

694
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 5: I've always I've always had what I needed.

695
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 4: But when it came.

696
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 5: To like, you know, sports or the schools that I

697
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 5: went to and things like that. We never had the

698
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 5: same resources as the bigger school. So it was just like, okay, Melissa,

699
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 5: control the things that are in your control, and then

700
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 5: the things that are out of your control, leave that

701
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 5: to whoever's supposed to be to and everything else.

702
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 4: So work yourself.

703
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: Out, Melissa. I'm looking at you. You're a fan. You

704
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: a fan young lady. So obviously you had to get stronger.

705
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 1: You had to get and I know women don't want

706
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: to hear this, but you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

707
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: You had to get bigger. You had to get stronger.

708
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: You were not strong.

709
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: Enough to carry that. You needed to be able to

710
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: propel yourself down the track. So women don't don't be up.

711
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: If she had a sharp call a woman big say

712
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: she need to get bigger. But you don't understand what

713
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But you you needed to grow, You

714
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: needed to fill that frame out. And you're still you're

715
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: still a fend. You're still a thin young lady, but

716
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: you're probably what fifteen pounds every day when what you

717
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: were probably in high school, college.

718
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 5: If that, if that so it was crazy, is I

719
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 5: think way wise? Well, and that I was.

720
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: Because you got a leader.

721
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm around the same way I was. But

722
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,919
Speaker 5: I'm definitely muscle yep, have more of the muscle mass

723
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 5: that I'm supposed to have. But I've definitely leaned out

724
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 5: this year because I started working with the chef and

725
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 5: everything and just like really paying attention to what he Wow.

726
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: Wow, oh Joe, she started working with a chef and

727
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: now the.

728
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:05,959
Speaker 3: World wait wait a minute, wait a minute.

729
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 2: She said she's working with a chef. She didn't say

730
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: what she was eating.

731
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: She ain't eating bull dye. You don't look like that

732
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: eating bull Jye.

733
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 4: McDonald's.

734
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: You like McDonald's too, Yeah, I love McDonalds.

735
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 5: But but sorry, o Joe. I will say I have

736
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 5: not been eating fast food. The last time I had

737
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 5: fast food was before my wedding in February, and I

738
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 5: said I wouldn't have any fast food to tell after

739
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 5: I do all the things I want.

740
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 2: That's okay, that's okay.

741
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no, no, how to change?

742
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 2: You heard what she said, right? Did you hear what

743
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 2: she said? Did you hear what she said?

744
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 3: She hasn't had it since February that's because yeah, preparing

745
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 3: for tonight or yesterday that matter.

746
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: No, she ain't gonna have no fast food until she

747
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: get back to the States.

748
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 2: But guess what she said, You know what? You see?

749
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: She said, you know what, Oh Joe, you know what,

750
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: let me cut this fast food out and let me

751
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: see I can be that.

752
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: Ain't got nothing to do with it, because she listened.

753
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 2: She was fast while she was eating it, So she

754
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 2: faster now that she's not eating it. You're mad.

755
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 3: You're mad because you.

756
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 2: She just told you she hasn't had fast food since

757
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 2: since that was she said February. She been fast all

758
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 2: her life. She wasn't this fast. She wasn't this fast

759
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 2: last year and the year before that.

760
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 3: No, she wasn't ten six back to back eating McDonald's.

761
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: So what you're saying she did?

762
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 1: She just tell you she had to have McDonald since February.

763
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: She ran those times in June.

764
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: I saw it.

765
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: But so now you shift your focus to the two hundred.

766
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: There has not been a whole lot of women to

767
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: win the World championship in one hundred and the two

768
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: is that has that crossed your mind? You start putting

769
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: yourself in very, very elite company oh yeah.

770
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 5: The goal this year is it is. I won't say

771
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 5: it was because it ain't done yet. The goal this

772
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 5: year is to win everything, like I set up yep.

773
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 5: I set out that goal at the beginning of the

774
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 5: year when I talk with my coaches and I said, well,

775
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 5: you know, obviously at first it like for the two

776
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 5: hundred because I'm a very realistic person too, and I

777
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 5: fought back and forth with me running the two hundred

778
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 5: for a long time. But now I'm starting to embrace it,

779
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 5: so I'm like, Okay, if you stop playing around, then

780
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 5: you can actually win the whole thing. So it went

781
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 5: from that to just telling my coaches like, I want

782
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 5: to be able to take the two hundred more serious,

783
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 5: to know I'm not only going to be like a contender,

784
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 5: like I want to be at the at the forefront,

785
00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 5: you know, Like I want to be able to say,

786
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 5: like I can't away with the gold medal and the

787
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 5: two hudred and I know that the only other woman

788
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 5: to do so at the World Championships is Shelley.

789
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: Shelley, who happens to be the greatest. She's the greatest printer.

790
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: She is back to back eight and twelve. She wanted

791
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: to go the gold medal, and then you got you

792
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: and then she got five world championships in the hundred,

793
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: and she won the two hundred, so she's You're absolutely right.

794
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: That's why many labor her the greatest woman's sprinter in

795
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: the history of the sport.

796
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 2: And it's hard. Look, it's hard to deny it.

797
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: I know Elaine has won back to back one hundredths

798
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: and two hundreds, bless and heart, But when you look

799
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: at the totality and the longevity, she won a world

800
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 1: championship in one hundred at thirty five.

801
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 4: I was in that race, by the way, and the

802
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 4: last I remember there.

803
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: Man, Melissa, We're happy nightcap. The family are very happy,

804
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: very pleased. Congratulations, Thank you, thank you for taking time

805
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 1: out of your schedule to come on and talk to us.

806
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: But yay, this is not the end. Uh So what's next?

807
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: After the World Championships is over? Your season is over.

808
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: Now you go eat some McDonald's, or you go get

809
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: some hogstails, or you go get some shrip into face.

810
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 2: Oh you're from low Country, you.

811
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: Down Georgetown, You're chafter so you going you're going to

812
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: eat some some some.

813
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 5: Some ooh rice neck bones.

814
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: What I'm talking about Wait, she's down at them geeche there,

815
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: George Town.

816
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: She went, hey, oh Joe, She'll tell you they got

817
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: up when they when they brought us, they got off

818
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: the boat down there.

819
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 2: Close to where she at.

820
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

821
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: Man, congratulations. I know everybody in South Carolina is very

822
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: proud of We're proud, We're extremely proud of what you've

823
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: been able to do. But don't be satisfied. Be greedy,

824
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: be greedy. This is what I tell people. They said, Well, man,

825
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: they said, Shannon, if you cheat on the test, man,

826
00:39:58,200 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: you don't want to get them, all right, I say,

827
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: If I I'm cheat, I'm getting a hundred. You there now,

828
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 1: don't be satisfied when I got one goal. I happy

829
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: if I win the silver to broad No no, no, no, no,

830
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: no double gold. Do something that very few and we

831
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: don't know how think about it in the history of

832
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: the World Championships.

833
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 2: The World Championship started in nineteen eighty three.

834
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this in nineteen eighty three,

835
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: and Helson I know only Shelley Ann has been able

836
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: to back it up with one hundred and the two.

837
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: So you get an opportunity to do something that hadn't

838
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: been in forty years. The World Championships. Who be special? Congratulations, Listen, congratulations.

839
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna be pulling for you. We're gonna be watching,

840
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: hey when you get that two under gold. Okay, go back,

841
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: all right, we'll see you. Jefferson, wouldn't the Olympics, the

842
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: World Championship one hundred meters gold medalist. We grow fastest

843
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: time ever run charge the battle.

844
00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

845
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 4: I was just about to say that you.

846
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 2: Should have had the medal on the whole you got there,

847
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 2: you go? There you got it.

848
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 4: Oh it's not.

849
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go. There we go.

850
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 1: We can see back back it up from the camera,

851
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: so the focus back it up a little bit.

852
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 2: Hold on that deck.

853
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 4: Let me just turn right there, right there.

854
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: There you go. There you're going nice.

855
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 4: Yep, got the last applause.

856
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: Listen, Wooden, congratulations, stay healthy, Hey, get all of them

857
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: one hundred, two hundred four by one. They might need

858
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: a leg, they might they might need a leg on

859
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: the four by four.

860
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 2: But I told them to hold off.

861
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 4: Please hold off.

862
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 5: If they want to win, they don't put me in there,

863
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 5: not this year. I need some time. I need some time.

864
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: Were congratulations, go and join the rest of the evening

865
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: with your family and your husband. Tell everybody we at nightcap.

866
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: We said hello and we look forward to talking to

867
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: you very very soon.

868
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 4: Thank you,