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Speaker 1: have current and former athletes to break down some of
Speaker 1: the Olympics and lady do we have a great interview
Speaker 1: for you later today, Gabby Thomas stop by. But first,
Speaker 1: o Cho, I've been trying to tell you. I said, Oh,
Speaker 1: Choe Thrumia is going to be that Trump is task.
Speaker 1: I say, what happens if they hit twenty three, they
Speaker 1: were on pace, they hit fifteen, that was fifteen to thirty.
Speaker 1: Going in to the board quarter they went over nine
Speaker 1: and the US team they tightened it down. There was
Speaker 1: a reason only three guys received an invitation without trying
Speaker 1: out Lebron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. The committee said,
Speaker 1: if you guys want to play, you can be on
Speaker 1: the team. No questions asked, no trials, no anything. And
Speaker 1: if you look at that fourth quarter, you look at
Speaker 1: what Lebron did. Steph Curry was sensational, was great, was amazing,
Speaker 1: Jeff Steph whatever you want to call him, for the
Speaker 1: entirey of the game, Kevin Durant, and then you got
Speaker 1: Joe ELLENBII, who had his best game.
Speaker 4: By far, crazy crazy work.
Speaker 1: Now the US will face France in the gold medal round.
Speaker 1: They trailed by as many as seventeen trailed by as
Speaker 1: many as thirteen points entering into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Oh Joe, I know you was like, damn Unk right.
Speaker 5: Again, listen. I was watching, I was watching. I was
Speaker 5: watching at the beginning, and I'm watching the game. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I remember Unk saying, well, in order for Survey to
Speaker 5: have a chance to win, they got to be efficient,
Speaker 5: they got to hit they threes and hit they shots.
Speaker 5: And I'm watching the game, I'm like, ain't no way
Speaker 5: in hell, based on what I saw in the first half,
Speaker 5: they not going to be able to keep up this
Speaker 5: volume of shooting, make it all these shots. If I'm
Speaker 5: not mistaken, it looked like they went might have been
Speaker 5: nine for nine, seven, maybe five, whatever it might have been.
Speaker 4: And Curry kept answering back.
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm looking like, man, Usa boy, y'all
Speaker 5: y'all scaring me. Now, y'all scared me because I've been
Speaker 5: I've been talking trash. I've been talking trash, and it
Speaker 5: got to a point. Now I don't mean to skip
Speaker 5: from the first court all the way to the end
Speaker 5: of the game. It got to the point I've seen
Speaker 5: people rumbling why Jason Tator not in, why Jason Tator
Speaker 5: not playing and bead balling Curry balling Lebron doing what
Speaker 5: he's doing would not be denied. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: I'm like, ain't nowhere in hell these boys listening to
Speaker 5: Steve Kurk Steve Curry and running and plays man a boy.
Speaker 4: Playing a U ball. Hey, I tell you I swept
Speaker 4: for God.
Speaker 5: I guarantee you if you talk to Katie, you talked
Speaker 5: to Steph, or you talked to Lebron. Them boy started
Speaker 5: doing their own thing towards the end and say, you.
Speaker 4: Know what, we got to win this.
Speaker 5: Them boy were playing AAU ball where they buckled hot man,
Speaker 5: hot man, get the ball where.
Speaker 1: They buckled down. Well, Steph Curry was pretty much hot
Speaker 1: and he needed this game because Steph hadn't shot the
Speaker 1: ball well and he definitely hadn't shot the three ball well,
Speaker 1: so they really needed him to play like he played today.
Speaker 1: In today's game, Lebron has been Lebron. Lebron has been
Speaker 1: incredibly efficient. He's shooting over sixty percent from the floor.
Speaker 1: He's doing a great job of facilitating. We know he's
Speaker 1: a great pass of the ball, and he's doing an
Speaker 1: outstanding job of rebounding the ball.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: He had that one game, but it was you know,
Speaker 1: he got hot and the first you know, made all
Speaker 1: his threes and the game was still closer than I
Speaker 1: thought he should have been. Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: But Joe Ellenbiid in the fourth quarter. He was sensational.
Speaker 1: And you look at the way they played Ojo. You
Speaker 1: look at Kevin Durant get down on the defensive stands.
Speaker 1: Look that Devin Booker get down on the defensive stands.
Speaker 1: Lebron Jasons, Hey, let me bang with yo for a
Speaker 1: little while, and bead you take a guy he he
Speaker 1: he no thread outside, but let me bange with him. Hey,
Speaker 1: we'll switch off here and there, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: let me bage steph in a defensive stance. They knew
Speaker 1: this was gonna be the upset of upsets. This is
Speaker 1: not two thousand and four where they sent a young Lebron,
Speaker 1: a young d Wade, a team that was Hodge Hodge,
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of pieces. Talented players, but
Speaker 1: pieces that didn't fit right. You cannot lose with Lebron,
Speaker 1: with Steph went KD, with all the Joe l embiid,
Speaker 1: all these guys. Man, oh Joe, they clamped it down.
Speaker 1: What did they scored in the fourth quarter? The US
Speaker 1: out scored him thirty two to fifteen in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and they needed.
Speaker 4: Hey, that was too close for comfort. Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: too that was.
Speaker 5: Too close for comfort. And Servia came out. Man, they
Speaker 5: came out looking so good. Man, I don't know how
Speaker 5: to pronounce young bull last name right, who was making.
Speaker 4: Fun of who went to mellow when he hit the
Speaker 4: three mellow boy?
Speaker 5: Listen to them boy from behind? That all well, the
Speaker 5: boy were looking good. I was like, man, they didn't
Speaker 5: be served.
Speaker 4: It ain't come to plumb me.
Speaker 5: So I'm nervous. I've been talking trash on him. I
Speaker 5: got people sending me you know what if usay lose,
Speaker 5: I'm fin the blame o Jo he jinxed us. I'm like,
Speaker 5: come on, man, what what I got to do with that?
Speaker 5: Everybody else cheering for us too, But that was that was.
Speaker 4: A good game. It's just just that that's scarce don't.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: But that's what happens on Joe. I mean, that's you're
Speaker 1: talking about one game. Team get hot from behind the three,
Speaker 1: you fall behind. The basket gets bigger, the ball gets smaller,
Speaker 1: it goes into the baby like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you looking around like damn, damn, yeah, damn.
Speaker 5: I said so when you look at it from a
Speaker 5: match standpoint, Serbia, I think they messed it very well
Speaker 5: with us, obviously. I mean the way they played obviously
Speaker 5: shot they shot great from mid range, they shot great
Speaker 5: from from you know, from three.
Speaker 4: How does France match up?
Speaker 5: Do you see France as an easier matchup as opposed
Speaker 5: to Serbia.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Wemby is the neutralizer because Wemby you can stand in
Speaker 1: you can stand in the land as long as you
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 3: Ain't no, ain't no.
Speaker 1: Three seconds, you can go tend the ball, you can
Speaker 1: knock the ball off the rim, and so he can
Speaker 1: do a.
Speaker 3: Lot of that.
Speaker 1: I think the thing is is that, and they haven't
Speaker 1: been playing Rudy Gobert a whole lot. I think he
Speaker 1: only played five minutes maybe another game. The game before
Speaker 1: that he played three minutes.
Speaker 4: But he's a liability on defense.
Speaker 3: Offense, he's a liability.
Speaker 1: But hey, that's neither here north there, but right and
Speaker 1: at this juncture, damn your feelings.
Speaker 3: We're trying to win gold.
Speaker 1: So I understand, Rudy Gobert, you are what three four
Speaker 1: time Defensive Player of the Year. You got this big contract.
Speaker 1: I understand. Jason Tatum, you say, the biggest contract in
Speaker 1: NBA history. You just won a championship. You on the
Speaker 1: cover of two K you just on the cover you know,
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated. We're trying to win now, so you got
Speaker 1: a long player playing wide to get over your feelings.
Speaker 1: We're trying to win this goal. And that's what it
Speaker 1: comes down to. And Steve Kurk with the guys that
Speaker 1: hair of the guys that have been in more big
Speaker 1: moments than anybody, right, especially the Big Three. Now book
Speaker 1: is played in the NBA finals, Joel Eenbid has never
Speaker 1: been there. But you needed that presence because, like you said,
Speaker 1: there's no three seconds. So what did joelingb do? Go banking?
Speaker 1: But down that side, I said, hey, do what you
Speaker 1: doing in the NBA doing the NBA Go down inside
Speaker 1: and make him file you or lay up all up
Speaker 1: in the basket.
Speaker 3: That's what he did. Book didn't have the shot going outside.
Speaker 3: He was only two or four. He only took four shots.
Speaker 1: I mean the US shot fifty from the floor, they
Speaker 1: shot fifty percent from the three. Has stem Curry not
Speaker 1: being Steph Curry in the first half because.
Speaker 4: And in the beginning, it wouldn't it wouldn't been.
Speaker 1: They would have lost kept him attack because they could
Speaker 1: always they could always see the tail like they were
Speaker 1: never able to run and hide.
Speaker 3: And so now and I was like, dang, they get
Speaker 3: the sixth and the next thing, you know, it's fifteen.
Speaker 3: It's thirteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I believe the play of the game, Oh Joe,
Speaker 1: they were down, which was like ten, Kevin Durant here
Speaker 1: the three, and then they get a flavorant on Jokic
Speaker 1: running over a d and pushing him into Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: Now we got three, and then Book comes in here
Speaker 1: the three. So that's a six, that's two. That's a
Speaker 1: six point swing right there, yes, right now, right back
Speaker 1: right back in love again. And you know Lebron, I
Speaker 1: think Lebron, you know, dipped the shoulder, got a fade away,
Speaker 1: he drove the basket, Kevin Durant, you know. But Steph
Speaker 1: was the one that when Steph came off that screen
Speaker 1: and he shot it the three and I was like, damn.
Speaker 1: It popped up as a yeah, get in there where
Speaker 1: they get and when they got in there. And when
Speaker 1: they got in there, I was like, okay, we got
Speaker 1: to leave a little breathing room. But yeah, Lebron came down,
Speaker 1: he found Kevin Durant, and Kevin Durant hit a little
Speaker 1: what like a fifteen foot JUMPERO gave the breathing room
Speaker 1: and then they filed Steph and then Steph. That was
Speaker 1: the end of it. But that was all she wrote.
Speaker 3: That, That was all she wrote. But they needed I mean,
Speaker 3: you need your O, Joe.
Speaker 1: You do know this was gonna be if Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kevin Durant's knowing not on this team. You
Speaker 1: do know that us not winning goal. Oh yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Can see it.
Speaker 4: You can see it.
Speaker 3: You can see it.
Speaker 4: Well, hold on, how about this now?
Speaker 5: As you say that, you think about how even without
Speaker 5: the experience, let's say you take Steph, you take Brown,
Speaker 5: and you take Katie out, and you're replacing with some
Speaker 5: some of the bench three of your best players on
Speaker 5: the bench.
Speaker 4: You don't think still.
Speaker 1: Lebron James played thirty two minutes, Steph Curry played thirty
Speaker 1: three minutes. Kevin Durant off the bench, played twenty four minutes. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: nobody else off the bench played more than thirteen.
Speaker 3: That's ant man.
Speaker 1: Derrick White played seven ad play ten, Bam playing ten.
Speaker 3: Holliday played twenty. So they're big guns.
Speaker 1: Lebron James thirty two minutes, Joe LMB twenty seven minutes,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker twenty four minutes, Steph Curry thirty three minutes,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant twenty four minutes.
Speaker 5: But you do you understand what I was asking Now,
Speaker 5: I was hypothetically speaking if they weren't, if they weren't here,
Speaker 5: and you were to take Katie, Steph and Lebron out,
Speaker 5: Let's say they weren't.
Speaker 4: They weren't here. Is there anybody from the.
Speaker 5: Bench, no, that can fill in for the production that
Speaker 5: they that they have or that they know that they bring.
Speaker 1: To the told No, because ain't nobody shooting the three?
Speaker 1: Who's gonna shoot the three to keep them attached? Because now,
Speaker 1: if Steph Curry is not hot in the first half,
Speaker 1: that's a twenty five thirty point lead. The game's over.
Speaker 1: He kept them attached. Yeah, he kept at a thirteen
Speaker 1: point fifteen point lead. That thing was teetering about to
Speaker 1: go to twenty five third Yeah, quick, yes, yes, no, no.
Speaker 4: I I'm just curious. I'm just curious, and you think.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, everybody's so efficient. Steph shot the most.
Speaker 1: He shot nineteen shots, fourteen of them, fourteen of them
Speaker 1: were threes. He was nine to fourteen. They needed every shot,
Speaker 1: they needed every shot.
Speaker 4: He was hitting them. Thinks, Hey, hold on, did you
Speaker 4: see the one at the corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he turned around.
Speaker 4: Shot it by the bench, and he turned around.
Speaker 3: Before the ball even I didn't know.
Speaker 6: It's good, yes, sir, So that I mean they had
Speaker 6: ten turnovers. They didn't turn the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean Lebron had two, Embiid had three, Holiday had one,
Speaker 1: Curry had two, and a man had two. So they
Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot of turnovers. They had fix
Speaker 1: ten turnovers.
Speaker 3: You can live with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but all those turnovers, how many were points?
Speaker 1: Well, but that that's the thing because a lot of times, O, yo,
Speaker 1: what happens if you turn the ball over, you don't
Speaker 1: even give your chance, you don't even get the ball
Speaker 1: a shot up, and now you'll allow the other team
Speaker 1: to run out on you.
Speaker 3: Right. So, but congratulations to the men's team.
Speaker 1: They win a thriller over Serbia, fight their way in
Speaker 1: to the gold medal game against France. The US win
Speaker 1: ninety five ninety one, outscore the Serbians thirty two to fifteen,
Speaker 1: holding the nine from the three point line. And I
Speaker 1: believe that was the difference in the ballgame. Great fought,
Speaker 1: hard fought victory. This is what you want to be
Speaker 1: in these close games like this, because the last thing
Speaker 1: you want to do is be in the gold medal
Speaker 1: match and haven't had anything close.
Speaker 3: They know now they.
Speaker 5: Will take how you did, how you deal with adversity, right,
Speaker 5: how you respond that versity.
Speaker 4: And they responded real.
Speaker 3: Well, they will they will never.
Speaker 1: They will not underestimate French, the French team because they're
Speaker 1: in France.
Speaker 3: So you know that thing's gonna be Rutgers Raley.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but they don't have no shooters like Serbia.
Speaker 1: Guys shooter they got when bit they got for it,
Speaker 1: they got they got a couple of guys that can
Speaker 1: put the ball to the But oh yo, they've played
Speaker 1: together for so.
Speaker 3: Long, so long, Yeah, they know.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it, this team been together less
Speaker 1: than a month. Yeah, yeah, I know what you can do.
Speaker 1: But I've got to figure out where you want the ball,
Speaker 1: where you need the ball. How do we get Hey,
Speaker 1: they know backcuts and pigs and things like that. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I think the US overpassed the ball trying to
Speaker 1: do too much. But hey, right currency, I'm riding my guns.
Speaker 1: Say what y'all want to say. Yeah, we'll discuss we'll
Speaker 1: discuss this later. But I love, I love, I love
Speaker 1: the way the US team played, O Joe. And they
Speaker 1: win this ball game. Shoot fifty from the floor, fifty
Speaker 1: percent from the three. They need to do a better
Speaker 1: job from the free throw line because they only shot
Speaker 1: sixty four percent from the free throw line. But they
Speaker 1: hold off of value that the third one of this
Speaker 1: because you could, Oh, they were they heard, because they
Speaker 1: wanted to blag. They wanted to go They wanted to
Speaker 1: go on and be on that network say we beat
Speaker 1: the big band Americans. But you would have to You'll
Speaker 1: have to wait another four years for that to have them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and and when that four years come, they
Speaker 4: still ain't gonna win.
Speaker 1: They still win, So congratulations ust oh, Joe, Yo, Sydney McLaughlin,
Speaker 1: I told you wins goes on the four hundred hurdles
Speaker 1: with a new world record. It's the sixth times she's
Speaker 1: broken the world record since twenty twenty one, a new
Speaker 1: world record fifty point three seven. She's the first woman
Speaker 1: to ever repeat at the Olympic chef in the four
Speaker 1: hundred meter hurdles.
Speaker 3: Only Glenn Davis. No, you don't know who that is, though, Joe,
Speaker 3: but anyway, only.
Speaker 5: Glynn Wren go ahead one consec what a consecutive goals
Speaker 5: in the man's side.
Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty six in Melbourne, nineteen sixty in Rome. And
Speaker 1: then you had Edward Moses the great Morehouse Brad. He
Speaker 1: won in seventy six to Montreal. We boardcott him a
Speaker 1: Moscow in eighty and then in eighty four in la
Speaker 1: he won. And then h I think he won a
Speaker 1: bronze medal to and sold didn't he. I think he
Speaker 1: got two goals in the bronze. But he was gonna
Speaker 1: be heavy favorite, but you never know. Hey, the favorites
Speaker 1: doesn't always win. But if I'm not mistaken, Ash, I
Speaker 1: think he got a bronze. He might have got a
Speaker 1: bronze and and sould Okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I asked HI about you about you knew you knew
Speaker 1: he got a I didn't know. I asked I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I thought he did, though, But he's.
Speaker 1: Regarded as the greatest hurtler because, oh Joe, this jogger
Speaker 1: went ten years and never got beat over one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten races and never lost the finals. Right, so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who finally beat it was Andre
Speaker 1: Phillips or Kevin Young. They track, They didn't cover track
Speaker 1: like we do now. Don't you know you're gonna peek
Speaker 1: a man. They got the Diamond League. But the only
Speaker 1: thing that they only the only thing that you huh yeah,
Speaker 1: Andre Phillips.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh Joe.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh Joe, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to
Speaker 1: say Andre Phillip was the one that broke his streak.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, O Joe. But anyway, they didn't cover it
Speaker 1: like they do now, O Joe. The Olympics was always
Speaker 1: covered heavily. Even the World Championship wasn't covered like we
Speaker 1: covered them now.
Speaker 3: And so you know, you had to like pick and choose.
Speaker 3: I mean you might read it, you might get a glimpse.
Speaker 1: And obviously the American athletes, you know, especially like Edwin Moses,
Speaker 1: a Carl Lewis, people that did things like that, they
Speaker 1: talked about him, but for the most part it didn't
Speaker 1: get covered. But I'm not surprised by this. I've been
Speaker 1: trying to tell people. They keep trying to make this
Speaker 1: a rival. It's not a rival. Cabo has never beaten
Speaker 1: sending them labroni because Ojoe, when you look at it,
Speaker 1: name something that she does better, then see it. She
Speaker 1: doesn't have the strength. Sidney is a sub forty nine
Speaker 1: four hundred meters run.
Speaker 4: She doesn't have She don't have the foot speed either.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have the foot speed. Sidney in the indoor season,
Speaker 1: she runs sixty meter hurdles. She'll run that, she'll run
Speaker 1: the she'll run the short of hurdles, one hundred meter hurdles.
Speaker 1: So she's working on technique. So you don't have the
Speaker 1: you don't have the strength, you don't have the foot speed,
Speaker 1: you don't have.
Speaker 3: The technique, So how do you beat her?
Speaker 1: But today the moment Ojo I heard her taking here
Speaker 1: a press conference, she said, I can't explain that it
Speaker 1: was a bad day, but the lactic acid at three,
Speaker 1: at three hundred meters, then at at when I got there,
Speaker 1: when I got to about three hundred meters, so one
Speaker 1: hundred meters into the race, ojo, She said, I felt
Speaker 1: the lactic acid already build up.
Speaker 5: That's precious nerves. Nerves, that's nerves. Yeah, that's nerves. You
Speaker 5: got to stay you got to stay related.
Speaker 3: Gott to stay related.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if she's one that's not used to
Speaker 5: the big moment, but see it's used to those big moments.
Speaker 4: She's used to it. Yeah, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: it's still just a race.
Speaker 5: When you can block out the point, the fact that
Speaker 5: I'm representing my country, if you can block out fact
Speaker 5: that I'm at the biggest stage, block out the fact
Speaker 5: that I'm at the Olympics, it's just another race.
Speaker 4: And that's the hard part to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can say that's the hard part.
Speaker 1: That's what people say about the air, about the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: or it's just another So why why there's seventy thousand
Speaker 1: people already in the stands, It's two hours before the game.
Speaker 3: It ain't like that right.
Speaker 1: Why are all these people on the sidelines. Why is Denville, Washington?
Speaker 1: Why are all these famous people standing on the sideline
Speaker 1: when it's not like that born Oh and you know what,
Speaker 1: We've never gone on the road for a week before
Speaker 1: I've been on the location for a week. We normally
Speaker 1: go at that Saturday to get there round three thirty
Speaker 1: four o'clock. Oh show, and we back after we've been
Speaker 1: here a week. M Man said, laid down a blistering time.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about and we talked to Mike about this.
Speaker 1: I look, no Bobby Curse, I don't know him personally,
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of the lot of the
Speaker 1: guys that he trains. I know how he thinks. Bobby wants,
Speaker 1: he wants his athletes to leave legacies. And could it
Speaker 1: be a possibility she do both at the at the
Speaker 1: at the next World.
Speaker 3: Twenties five what she.
Speaker 1: Wanted to move out the hurdles and before hunt it
Speaker 1: or does she bypass it, says, Okay, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the worlds.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna won the hurdle.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get this thing even lore maybe
Speaker 1: even fifty point ten or maybe even sub fifty and
Speaker 1: then for twenty eight, I'm going I'm gonna contest to
Speaker 1: open four. She's only twenty four years of age, so
Speaker 1: even at twenty eight, she'll still be in her pride
Speaker 1: and if she stays him. And you know Bobby Cursey,
Speaker 1: Bobby Cursey. You got Bobby Cursey who trains, You got
Speaker 1: John Smith his crew, changed tanyath Vermali who trains a
Speaker 1: lot of females out Dennis Mitchell.
Speaker 3: Who trains this group.
Speaker 1: But knowing Bobby the way that I've known him and
Speaker 1: studies is athletes, Bobby likes the challenge. Bobby's like, when
Speaker 1: you talk about my athletes, you talk about what they did,
Speaker 1: what they've done.
Speaker 3: Nobody else has ever done it.
Speaker 1: And you know, when we talked to Michael, Michael says,
Speaker 1: nobody had ever even thought about doing it on the
Speaker 1: men's side until I did it.
Speaker 3: Nobody's even come.
Speaker 1: I mean the Cahunas that you gotta have to even pay,
Speaker 1: Joe the.
Speaker 3: Foe and the two in the same Olympics.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: We've seen guys and gals drop down their four hundred meters.
Speaker 1: Sharika Jackson, she was a four hundred meters she got
Speaker 1: a bronze medal in the World's one year. We see
Speaker 1: Fred Curley, he was a four hundred meter guy. He
Speaker 1: dropped down. But to do both. Yeah, that's why that's
Speaker 1: friend double.
Speaker 3: It's really hard. Anna Cargo she got the h.
Speaker 1: The silver, and the Six years since signing an eye
Speaker 1: popping seven figure deal with New Balance in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: she's racked up ten major championship. That's Sydney but Glockler Labroni.
Speaker 1: She's won four US Championships, three worlds now three Olympic goals.
Speaker 1: She will run on the woman's four by four. So well, hey,
Speaker 1: you about to get you about to get another one.
Speaker 1: And I told you that's crazy. Did you see that
Speaker 1: blistering leg bro I saw, I saw film could got
Speaker 1: tied up at the mix work at the mix last
Speaker 1: year with.
Speaker 3: That girl tied up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all but actually thought that she would if they
Speaker 1: got the baitar And at the same time, y'all actually
Speaker 1: thought film cabol could run with City.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think anybody thought that, But they
Speaker 5: keep trying to make it a rivalry because they need
Speaker 5: somebody because see it continues to dominate. She continues to
Speaker 5: dominate year in and year out, at every competition, at
Speaker 5: every event.
Speaker 4: So they're trying to create a.
Speaker 5: Narrative that that is a rival of hers, because obviously
Speaker 5: she's good.
Speaker 4: But it just it's just not that.
Speaker 5: And I don't think there's anyone who's going to challenge
Speaker 5: sit it unless someone just comes out of nowhere that
Speaker 5: we don't know about out yet. That's that's that's a
Speaker 5: young what a young prodigy?
Speaker 4: Prodigy?
Speaker 1: You're right, but here, okay, we've never seen anybody that
Speaker 1: have this kind of combination.
Speaker 3: The row, foot speed, the strength, and the technique.
Speaker 4: And you see and endurance that endurance to that as well.
Speaker 3: You see what she did. She started running forwards.
Speaker 1: Bobby would make a a you're gonna run the hundred,
Speaker 1: you're gonna run the two hundred to work on your
Speaker 1: foot speed.
Speaker 3: No, you know what, we're gonna put him in sixty hurdles.
Speaker 1: Bobby will make his He will make him put his
Speaker 1: athletes in situations where they're uncomfortable. So now, when the
Speaker 1: moment arrived. Normally, that's one thing you can say about
Speaker 1: Bobby curses athletes. Normally they performed badwell unless they're injured,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times they're even Nick Bobby ain't
Speaker 1: fooling with that's that's that's a rarity for if you
Speaker 1: if his athletes are, he don't care.
Speaker 3: If it's a world you don't care how big. He says,
Speaker 3: it's not worth the risk. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. So I have the utmost respect.
Speaker 1: Quincy Watts, he's another trainer. He trains uh, Michael Norman,
Speaker 1: he trains Rye Benjamin. So I think Fred Curley is
Speaker 1: in that group out there too. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he directly worked with Fred, but you look at Sid
Speaker 1: obviously unprecedented. Now remember oh Joe, she didn't even contest
Speaker 1: the world last year. That's why fim Cabo won that
Speaker 1: world championship. See it didn't contested. She got She will
Speaker 1: have no world time if Seid contest that. Sein is
Speaker 1: about to be four four World championship, two Olympic goals.
Speaker 1: Broke the world record. Six is my record. I broke it, right,
Speaker 1: it's mine. It's gonna it's gonna be three goals. But
Speaker 1: go ahead, Oh yeah, she oh, she, she's gonna she
Speaker 1: gonna run a leg. She's definitely gonna run the leg
Speaker 1: on there. But I'm impressed by the she she's very,
Speaker 1: very impressive. Remember she made the Olympic team. What's seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you can see as you can.
Speaker 1: Uh, and congratulations said, we got a little something coming
Speaker 1: for your weight.
Speaker 3: Damn, man, my pockets. How much I'm down.
Speaker 4: Now, ash, how much we down?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 4: Listen, hey, let me tell you what God said. Now.
Speaker 5: You won't forget what it said in the Bible. God
Speaker 5: loves a cheer forgiver. Whatever the giveth thee come back
Speaker 5: tenfoldeds God, Hey, don't forget that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever, God loves the cheer forgiver, all right.
Speaker 4: And what we're doing now, we're paying our tithes.
Speaker 5: And you know what happened when you pay your ties,
Speaker 5: He allows the cup to run it over after that,
Speaker 5: so don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Whatever you whatever, we done have to pay.
Speaker 5: Well for the three weeks these Olympics, we're gonna get
Speaker 5: back tenfold.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm telling you, my cup, my cup by the empty,
Speaker 1: it ain't run. He need to puss up in there,
Speaker 1: couse right now? Hey, that death grand Holloway wins the
Speaker 1: goals in one hundred and ten meter hurdles. Halloway is
Speaker 1: the first American to win the hunder meter heard the
Speaker 1: gold since Ari's merit, the world record holder with twelve
Speaker 1: point eight zero in London in twenty twelve. He's followed
Speaker 1: by American Daniel Roberts in second, taking the silver. Freddie Crindton,
Speaker 1: ranked fourth in the world, couldn't complete the Vodian of
Speaker 1: suite sweep. He finished sixth. He was a nursing of
Speaker 1: a dector injury and uh, you know, he even jogged
Speaker 1: to open the heat and say I'm gonna take my chances.
Speaker 1: So he kind of got injured in between the trials
Speaker 1: and leading coming in. Uh Rashid Broadbail of Jamaica took
Speaker 1: the bronze. Who was that No. Allows one by what
Speaker 1: five thousands of a second? Daniel Roberts beat broad Bailed
Speaker 1: by three thousands of a second. Alloway Lan from start
Speaker 1: to finish. You know, he's got a tremendous start and
Speaker 1: he rins at a time of twelve point ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Lou Shan of Chya still holds the Olympic record. So
Speaker 1: congratulations grab Holloway. I think he's a little upset. I
Speaker 1: think he wants more sponsorships, he says. I don't have
Speaker 1: a watch deal. I don't know who goes into track
Speaker 1: and field. Track and field is not a it's not
Speaker 1: a sport like football. It's not a sport like basketball, baseball.
Speaker 1: It's not one of these major sports. So unless you're
Speaker 1: you saying boat, you know, there's only been a handful
Speaker 1: of I'm talking about America now. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the the international I don't know what they get. I
Speaker 1: don't know what Carston Warholmes make and I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I'm just talking about Boat, and I know Carl
Speaker 1: Lewis what he got paid. Carl Lewis was was you
Speaker 1: kind of like you saying, got the big dollars to
Speaker 1: go to the meet, show up at the meat Michael Johnson,
Speaker 1: but you saying it's a different animal.
Speaker 3: So unless you're you saying the likelihood of those big
Speaker 3: big dollars coming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it ain't, but I think I think it is.
Speaker 5: It's possible, though, It's possible to get the big dollars
Speaker 5: and run track. But you have to be you have
Speaker 5: to be a personality. You have to you have to
Speaker 5: you have to force yourself or or be able to
Speaker 5: force the people to want to see what's going to happen,
Speaker 5: you have to have some type of uh, some type
Speaker 5: of uh personality about yourself that it makes those uh
Speaker 5: companies want to pay because they know when you get ready,
Speaker 5: when you get ready to run, the visibility of their
Speaker 5: product is going to be seen on you.
Speaker 4: Right, you get what I'm trying to say. But you
Speaker 4: have to so you can't just you can't.
Speaker 5: You can't just be someone that that wins all the time,
Speaker 5: because that does nothing. But when you add the personality
Speaker 5: and the and like this type of aura or where
Speaker 5: everyone has to gravitate towards you even look even a
Speaker 5: little bit of trash talk, I think it's it's kind
Speaker 5: of frowned upon when it comes to try though. But
Speaker 5: once you add that personality to anything that you do,
Speaker 5: and you're good at it. Sky's a limited sponsor, Sky's
Speaker 5: a limited.
Speaker 1: To THESS like who they like? See it doesn't say
Speaker 1: a word? You watch see it? She stonefaced when she
Speaker 1: walks on the track.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're right, it's different.
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis didn't do anything. Michael Johnson didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Sponsors like who they like? O, Yo, we can't, we can't.
Speaker 1: We think we do a great job at what we do.
Speaker 1: I think we do. I think we put up. I
Speaker 1: think we create great content. I think we have great graphics.
Speaker 1: We do a great we do.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 1: We spend a lot of money on graphics and editors
Speaker 1: and social media. There ain't no lack. But I can't
Speaker 1: get mad if sponsors wants to spend with Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: and not us. I can't get mad because they want
Speaker 1: to spend with New Heights and not us, or busting
Speaker 1: with the boys or who's your daddy. We just got
Speaker 1: to careate content and then hope sponsors like, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: they got a big far. When people know who Nightcap is,
Speaker 1: they no club they like, they like oh Joe. We
Speaker 1: think there's a way that we can come together and
Speaker 1: make something happen, right. I mean, but but if you
Speaker 1: got if you got in the track and field, think
Speaker 1: you was gonna make Lebron James money or you you
Speaker 1: go make Patrick Mahome's money. You you Ojoe you saying
Speaker 1: won three Olympic First of all, there hadn't been a
Speaker 1: whole lot of men to repeat the double. He tripled
Speaker 1: the double. He broke the world record. He broke the
Speaker 1: world record again. He broke the world record into two hundred,
Speaker 1: he lowered it again. He ran time. They said at
Speaker 1: some point in time, the human body can't run that fast.
Speaker 1: He went sub nine seven, he went sub ninety six.
Speaker 3: He whatever.
Speaker 5: You got to understand. Not only was he winning, he
Speaker 5: was a huge personality, personality that everybody wanted to watch.
Speaker 5: When you add that other dynamic to outside of just winning,
Speaker 5: I don't care if you was a god damn steeple chase.
Speaker 3: Or what's the walk?
Speaker 4: What's the walk?
Speaker 3: What's the one that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you either use a race walker, if you
Speaker 5: if you're a race walker and you got some type
Speaker 5: of personality and you add that dynamic to you winning, Oh,
Speaker 5: they coming.
Speaker 3: They coming, But think about it. His last name is boat.
Speaker 3: He's faster than he just made.
Speaker 5: Hey, everything everything aligned and you run track.
Speaker 4: Your last name is boat, and you run track and
Speaker 4: you're fast.
Speaker 3: What we're gonna do with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3: The old saying we say, boy, that boy faster than lightning.
Speaker 3: This mad name. His actual name is, you say boat, lightning? Boat? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Everything something sometimes the stars aligned line, Yeah, they were.
Speaker 3: They were.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, let's see, I think I'm pronouncing its right.
Speaker 1: Let's see le Tobogo wins Go Go in the two
Speaker 1: hundred meters final with a time of nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1: I believe had he not celebrated, that is a sub
Speaker 1: nineteen four run.
Speaker 3: Say you say he's celebrated.
Speaker 1: He's the first box swanan to win Olympic and to
Speaker 1: win go in the Olympics history.
Speaker 3: Is the first box swanan. Wow.
Speaker 1: Kenny Bank took silver, No Allows to bronze Tobogo. He
Speaker 1: lost his mom about three four months ago. If you
Speaker 1: look at the side of his shoe, I think it
Speaker 1: had twelve twenty three eighty. That was the day that
Speaker 1: was the birthday of his mom. So she couldn't have
Speaker 1: been more than forty four forty three. Maybe she hadn't
Speaker 1: had a birthday yet, so she was forty three years
Speaker 1: of age. Let sile is twenty one if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: So she was fairly young, and it meant a lot.
Speaker 3: It meant a lot to him.
Speaker 1: What's what gave me pause that Noah could pull this
Speaker 1: off is that I saw this young man run low
Speaker 1: forty four in the open four So that tells me
Speaker 1: he's strong. I don't know, if you miss I don't know.
Speaker 1: If y'all missed it, but he missed the podium. He
Speaker 1: ran nine eight, So he has the speed. And if
Speaker 1: you go back and study, there was a time I
Speaker 1: think Noah Llows ran like a nineteen fifty. He ran
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty seven, nineteen fifty four, fifty six something like that. So, okay,
Speaker 1: he's been running four hundred meters building up his strength.
Speaker 1: He has the foot speed. He ran nine eight nine
Speaker 1: eight three ninety eighty four something like that. So he
Speaker 1: has the foot speed. Now he has the strength to
Speaker 1: carry that, and he he's running. Mom was pushing in mojo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she had her hands in his back. She said, I
Speaker 1: got you to theay son ah man, Hey.
Speaker 4: He ran a beautiful race.
Speaker 5: Listen from starting to finish, every phase, every transition that
Speaker 5: happens when you come out of those blocks.
Speaker 4: He did to a t. He did it to a t.
Speaker 4: He got out beautiful.
Speaker 5: And the fact that he was the fact that he
Speaker 5: had such a lead by the time that they got
Speaker 5: to the by the time they got about one hundred
Speaker 5: and by the time they got about one.
Speaker 4: Hundred and twenty meetings.
Speaker 3: It was a rap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could you could tell it was a rap
Speaker 5: because but nobody was catching it.
Speaker 1: He had Kenny beIN therek Kenny Bank is running, he
Speaker 1: runs Slub nineteen six. He had him in front of him,
Speaker 1: so I got something.
Speaker 3: To look at him. Yeah. I just thought that was
Speaker 3: a lot of.
Speaker 4: Coming off coming off the curve.
Speaker 1: Coming off the curve, that was a lot of distance
Speaker 1: for North because you got to spend a lot of
Speaker 1: energy because the ball was a slow polk.
Speaker 3: And they hadn't do so he had strength to hold it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So matter of fact, when I think about it,
Speaker 5: when I watched the race, and I'm not gonna use
Speaker 5: the excuse about knowing being sick or having COVID forget
Speaker 5: all that, I think maybe it, maybe it affected him,
Speaker 5: but he had so much come out of him when
Speaker 5: he ran that hundred. If he was the winness two
Speaker 5: hundred to day, I think he would have had to
Speaker 5: come out them damn blocks and catch the stagger coming
Speaker 5: off the curve.
Speaker 4: They would have had to be even. I think they
Speaker 4: would have had to be even.
Speaker 5: And not him having to come off the curve and
Speaker 5: then think down the straight away. Okay, you know what,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna catch people like I do in one hundred
Speaker 5: on the ladder back half when you can't because you
Speaker 5: don'et gave him too much goddamn ground coming off the curve.
Speaker 5: You're not You're not running against nobody slow. You're running
Speaker 5: against somebody that can maintain their speed as they go.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, let's just say, for the sake of argument,
Speaker 1: all allows is healthy and Tobogo is running like he
Speaker 1: did today. Well, they're both gonna be in the low
Speaker 1: nineteen threes. Yes, sir, they're both gona be in the
Speaker 1: nineteen three. We're gonna see something extremely special. M I'm
Speaker 1: just letting because, like I said, I understand. You know COVID.
Speaker 1: I guess it affects your lungs and your ability to.
Speaker 3: To oxygen make bring in oxygen, get out you know
Speaker 3: carbon dioxide. I don't. I'm not did you did you?
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 5: Did you have I've never had you No, I never
Speaker 5: had it either, But I mean those that I know
Speaker 5: that around me. I asked him when during that time,
Speaker 5: how it made you feel? It made you feel weak?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it made you feel weak.
Speaker 4: You had to drink a lot of fluids.
Speaker 5: So understanding that he had the symptoms of COVID, and
Speaker 5: then you were able to come out there and run
Speaker 5: and steal bronze knowing what it does to the body.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean commendable, still, commendable still to get
Speaker 5: bronze knowing that you just tested positive for COVID you
Speaker 5: know today before that, I mean, no excuse, but it
Speaker 5: is what it is.
Speaker 1: But we've all had upper respiratory and you know what
Speaker 1: it's like when you have a upper respiratory.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 1: And trying to play football. I've tried to play football
Speaker 1: with those man it ain't easy. And I can just imagine.
Speaker 1: And I'm in Denver, which which exacerbate which that altitude
Speaker 1: is making it worse. But let's let's give up. Let's
Speaker 1: see that Tobogo his his his flowers.
Speaker 3: He won.
Speaker 1: I think they got a silver medal a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago with Rhodesia. Maybe that was twenty that twenty
Speaker 1: twelve when the Rudigion broke the world record in the
Speaker 1: eight hundred from Kenya. And I think they have a
Speaker 1: young Boatswana that got the silver. Okay, they had twelve athletes,
Speaker 1: they got nothing. In Beijing, they got a silver. This
Speaker 1: is Boatswana Olympic. Ah uh they got eight hundred meter running. Oh,
Speaker 1: he got a silver okay, okay, London, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: Hey hey mo, my my my daughter, My daughter says
Speaker 5: he watching.
Speaker 3: Hey baby, Hey mo, how you doing?
Speaker 1: Tell?
Speaker 4: Yeah mo, you race me too? You you beat your daddy?
Speaker 4: Can you can make you some money too?
Speaker 3: So oh Joe. They've won a ground total of three medals.
Speaker 1: They've got a silver, a bronze, and now they got
Speaker 1: Botswana swanna.
Speaker 4: Okay, but what what events though?
Speaker 3: I know, well, obviously they just won the two hundred meters.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I think I think they want
Speaker 1: They got a silver in the London game and the
Speaker 1: eight hundred meters.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: I like it. And he was young too, twenty one.
Speaker 4: Oh well.
Speaker 3: That was what that was? What you call him?
Speaker 1: Right? He's a Botswana yeah mcquali, I mcquala. They have
Speaker 1: another four hundred meter guy that's really good here. I
Speaker 1: don't think he medal anything like that, but uh yeah
Speaker 1: four by four. Yeah, they got had a nice relay team.
Speaker 1: But Tobogo is is ain't to be played with. He
Speaker 1: he liked that. He's no, he's really really liked that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I understand you've this was an upset because
Speaker 1: no allows. He's a three time he was a three
Speaker 1: time defending world champ. He was running some of his best.
Speaker 1: We've seen him run down Channon Bank at the trials.
Speaker 1: We've seen him run down area in Knighting. We've seen
Speaker 1: him beat Tobogo head the head. But today it just
Speaker 1: wasn't meant to be. Let's see Tobogo gold in the
Speaker 1: two hundred kenny Baneric silver, no allows, Bronze, Rian Knighting.
Speaker 1: I missed this podium again with the gout the fourth.
Speaker 1: He just missed the podium no allows. Revealed after the
Speaker 1: race he tested positive for COVID, telling NBC he was
Speaker 1: feeling really, really horrible, but he never considered dropping out
Speaker 1: of the field. He's trying to win sports first Olympic
Speaker 1: double and one hundred and two hundred since Usain Boat
Speaker 1: did it three times in a row in Beijing, London
Speaker 1: and Rio, the first American, says Carl to do it
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four. Ain't a whole lot of women
Speaker 1: that's done. It ain't a whole lot of men that's done.
Speaker 1: It ain't a whole lot of women that's done it right.
Speaker 4: It's difficult.
Speaker 5: That's difficult, man, you know, you know how much any
Speaker 5: energy you are exerting when you have to win one
Speaker 5: race and to come back and do it again, then
Speaker 5: you got.
Speaker 4: A around qualified. That's eight Well, that's but that's a
Speaker 4: lot on the bottom.
Speaker 1: It is, it is, it's absolutely let's see le okay
Speaker 1: oh yo. Now it's time for We had a very
Speaker 1: special guest this.
Speaker 3: Morning on Oh Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 3: She is believable.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I've slave of her interviews, but to get
Speaker 1: an opportunity for o Jo and I to interview her,
Speaker 1: she's unbelievable. Here's I sit down with America's two hundred
Speaker 1: meter champ gold medalist legend.
Speaker 4: Already, I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, we have a very special guest joining us,
Speaker 1: the reigning two hundred meter Olympic champ. She's a member
Speaker 1: of the winning world championship four by one. She ran
Speaker 1: a blistering third leg. They qualified this morning with the
Speaker 1: fastest time. Even though they had a little hiccup between
Speaker 1: t T and herself with the exchange. They're gonna correct that,
Speaker 1: gonna win another gold medal. We're gonna talk about her
Speaker 1: possibly running on the four running a leg on the
Speaker 1: four by four. Welcome us, ladies and gentlemen, Gabby Thomas.
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention she also has a undergrad degree
Speaker 1: and neurobiology, and she has a master master's degree in epidemiology.
Speaker 7: Correct, that's right.
Speaker 1: And she's current currently employed at the uh and often
Speaker 1: where she serves underprivileged, underprivileged women.
Speaker 3: Is that correct? Also?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, I volunteer at a healthcare clinic where I
Speaker 7: provide healthcare services to people who don't have health insurance.
Speaker 4: That's dope.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: I have a question what you're doing as much as
Speaker 5: you're doing, especially when it comes to academics. How do
Speaker 5: you manage balancing your academics? I mean, hold on, how
Speaker 5: do you balance manage balance your athletics where their academic
Speaker 5: pursuits and neurology and sleep how you say how you.
Speaker 4: Say epidemic demology? Yeah, how do you balance the two?
Speaker 7: Well? I think because I started out as an NCAA athlete,
Speaker 7: you know, all collegiate athletes, it's hard, it's hard to
Speaker 7: balance it, but you kind of figure it out and
Speaker 7: you make it work. And so I was juggling a
Speaker 7: difficult major and track and field. And while when I
Speaker 7: was running in college track and field wasn't quite at
Speaker 7: the level that I'm running at now, we were still
Speaker 7: very committed to it. Like we were we were training
Speaker 7: like really elite D one athletes, like we were going
Speaker 7: to LSU or like we rent to Oregon and stuff
Speaker 7: like that. So I kind of got the ropes in
Speaker 7: in college and then the transition from college to pro
Speaker 7: was just it was easier.
Speaker 1: Wow, let me ask you this, how much pressure because
Speaker 1: you got the bronze at at the last Olympics, you
Speaker 1: got the silver. If I'm not mistaken, at the past Worlds,
Speaker 1: you're the face of this big ad with Toyota, you're
Speaker 1: the face of this now, Cherika Jackson, she steps out,
Speaker 1: that's even because there was pressure on you to do
Speaker 1: better than what you did at the last Olympic. Now
Speaker 1: Sri Rika has withdrawn. Now there's a ton of pressure.
Speaker 1: We had Justin Gallen, who a world champion and an
Speaker 1: Olympic champ. We had Michael Johnson, the world champ and
Speaker 1: an Olympic champ. And he says, sometimes the things that
Speaker 1: can wait an individual an athlete down is expectations.
Speaker 3: How much what type of bird?
Speaker 1: Were the expectations you of the face of this Toyota
Speaker 1: ad Okay, gamble you out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, we see you. You better bring home.
Speaker 4: Go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know everyone kept texting me talking about, oh
Speaker 7: I see you on Toyota everywhere, like before trials, even
Speaker 7: before I even made the Olympic team. You know, they
Speaker 7: were showing my face on the everywhere. So I hadn't
Speaker 7: even become like the Olympian yet. So there's definitely a
Speaker 7: lot of pressure. And for me in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 7: like coming from Harvard and not having any you know, medals,
Speaker 7: or having made any USA team, it was just a
Speaker 7: lot of fun for me. Like I was going out
Speaker 7: there and running and no one had any expectations, so
Speaker 7: I was having a great time. I was like, all right,
Speaker 7: let's go, let's go line up next to Alison Felix,
Speaker 7: let's go see what happens. It'll be great. And then
Speaker 7: as soon as I made the Olympic team, it changed.
Speaker 7: And then as soon as I got a bronze medal,
Speaker 7: it changed. Now suddenly people are talking about, okay, if
Speaker 7: you don't medal, now you know that's an l right,
Speaker 7: if you don't make this team next year. You know,
Speaker 7: that's a big l and so it immediately changed my
Speaker 7: mindset and even going into this year, Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 7: in as a favorite and there I mean I was
Speaker 7: telling people before I even stepped up to the line
Speaker 7: for my prelim, I have never felt this type of
Speaker 7: pressure before in my entire life. I mean, walk, you
Speaker 7: walk out there and you're just you're by yourself, Like
Speaker 7: you don't have a team to take that loss with you.
Speaker 7: If someone messes up, there's no there's no redo, there's
Speaker 7: no next play, there's none of that. It's like, all right,
Speaker 7: you're gonna go out there by yourself in front of
Speaker 7: eighty thousand people, and then you know the millions of
Speaker 7: people watching at home, and if you don't get it
Speaker 7: right in this one moment, especially in the short sprints,
Speaker 7: it's over. So it's definitely a lot of pressure. But
Speaker 7: for me, I practice like I meditate, I practice like focus.
Speaker 7: So if you can dissociate in that moment, you know,
Speaker 7: that separates the good athletes from the great athletes. If
Speaker 7: you're over there on the line thinking about how many
Speaker 7: people are watching you, you're gonna mess up, and you
Speaker 7: can you can see in the people's faces when they
Speaker 7: line up to the line, you can see you can
Speaker 7: tell when you're watching an athlete. You look in their
Speaker 7: eyes and you can see like, Okay, this person has
Speaker 7: figured it out. They're about to knock this race out.
Speaker 7: And someone who's scared and then like, all right, this
Speaker 7: is going to be there. I have to fight for this.
Speaker 5: Before you go to the line, before you line up,
Speaker 5: before you go into the blocks, do you envision the
Speaker 5: race and play it out in your head before you
Speaker 5: actually run? Because when I think from a football standpoint,
Speaker 5: I would look at the first fifteen. Plays are always scripted, right,
Speaker 5: and so when we before we go into a game,
Speaker 5: I envisioned what the route would look like, regardless to
Speaker 5: who's in front of me and how I'm going to
Speaker 5: execute it. Do you do that as a runner right
Speaker 5: before a big event with that kind of pressure on you.
Speaker 7: I had envisioned that race one hundred times at least
Speaker 7: before I ran it. Over the last week. I envisioned
Speaker 7: every single like I envisioned the walkout, getting into the blocks.
Speaker 7: The first couple of steps I envisioned like the middle
Speaker 7: and who's outside of me. I had ran it through
Speaker 7: my head so many times to the point where I
Speaker 7: could have ran that racial eyes closed. That's how perfectly
Speaker 7: I wanted to feel comfortable in that race. Now, when
Speaker 7: I actually won, like that was a different story. I
Speaker 7: couldn't have envisioned, you know, how that was going to feel,
Speaker 7: what I was going to do. But every single step
Speaker 7: what I was going to do, I had already pictured
Speaker 7: in my head. In my head, I had already won,
Speaker 7: like I was already the Olympic champion, and so I
Speaker 7: had to go out with that mindset.
Speaker 1: Gabby, I watched you in this race, and what surprised
Speaker 1: me is that you had a tune up race before
Speaker 1: a pre Olympic race, and you raised Jillian Alfort, you
Speaker 1: raised Dina asher Smith.
Speaker 3: Nita was also in that race, and.
Speaker 1: You did not get out in that race like you
Speaker 1: did in the Olympic final. What did you learn because
Speaker 1: you gave up too much of a cushion. You're like,
Speaker 1: I ain't making that mistake. I'm not making that mistake.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: That race, really that was a wake up call for me.
Speaker 7: So first of all, I want to start off by saying,
Speaker 7: so that was a London Diamondague race. It's very difficult.
Speaker 7: A lot of our races are overseas, and when you
Speaker 7: train in the United States, that is very difficult. So
Speaker 7: for me, you know, I knew going into that that girls,
Speaker 7: those girls have been in Europe. So I had to
Speaker 7: get off a plane lineup, and I knew. I'm like,
Speaker 7: all right, I'm a little jet like right now. So
Speaker 7: it's gonna be tough going to make this happen. And
Speaker 7: so that's what jet lag looks like. You feel like
Speaker 7: you feel like you're ready. You might feel ready, you're fit,
Speaker 7: you're fast, whatever, but that one percent difference is everything.
Speaker 7: So when I got off the curve in that race
Speaker 7: and I realized how far behind I was, I was
Speaker 7: maybe not panicked. I was like, oh, shoot, like I
Speaker 7: might actually lose this race. And you don't want to
Speaker 7: go into the Olympics. All the loss of your bellot
Speaker 7: it's it's not good for your confidence. So I everything
Speaker 7: I could to win that race. But the thing is
Speaker 7: it just gave me confidence that I knew I could
Speaker 7: win anyway. So I knew I could win even if
Speaker 7: I was thirty meters behind the field. I was like,
Speaker 7: I'm going to figure out a way to win. I
Speaker 7: knew I could win if I came off the turn
Speaker 7: in front, you know, in the mix, or dead last.
Speaker 7: So it gave me that confidence going into the Olympics,
Speaker 7: and it really just became a question of, you know,
Speaker 7: how am I going to win this race? Am I
Speaker 7: gonna am I going to get out well? Or am
Speaker 7: I just gonna to fight for it? And so it
Speaker 7: was less of a question of if I'm going to win,
Speaker 7: It was more so like how am I going to win?
Speaker 1: The thing that I like most about you is that
Speaker 1: you didn't paint it, because a lot of times we
Speaker 1: see people in races, like you said, you got up
Speaker 1: for playing your jet lag and you're like, well I
Speaker 1: don't have it today, but I'm okay, or they panic
Speaker 1: in the race and it makes the such a exacerbates
Speaker 1: the situation. You relax, yeah, and says I believe I
Speaker 1: still have my training and the foundation in which I
Speaker 1: put forth.
Speaker 3: I believe I still can catch these women.
Speaker 1: And in the last twenty meters, I'm like, where did
Speaker 1: she come from?
Speaker 7: Exactly exactly. And that's that you go into the race
Speaker 7: with confidence and trust in the training and trusting everything
Speaker 7: that you've done. And that's what I did. The worst
Speaker 7: thing you can do is panic intensive in a sprint.
Speaker 7: I mean every little thousands of a second counts, and
Speaker 7: if you're stressed out, running panicked, you know that's it.
Speaker 3: Gab. Have you thought about it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: And there's some speculation that said this might be Sid's
Speaker 1: last four hundred meters four hundred hurdle race and she
Speaker 1: might be looking to go to the open four hundred.
Speaker 3: There have only been a handful of peace.
Speaker 1: Valerie brisco Hooks did it, she won the two and
Speaker 1: the four in the eighty four Olympics. Marie Jose Perect
Speaker 1: did it in ninety six along with Michael Johnson. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that, but in that same
Speaker 1: Olympic that Mike double the French one French woman she doubled.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you've thought about going up to
Speaker 1: the two hundred and maybe challenging asking the federation to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, could y'all stacker this a little bit
Speaker 1: to give me a little bit more time to recover,
Speaker 1: or maybe the one two or maybe the two form.
Speaker 3: Have you thought about something like that?
Speaker 7: You know, I have thought about it, and even you know,
Speaker 7: for our Olympic trials this year, I really was going
Speaker 7: to double. I was going to do the four hundred
Speaker 7: and the two hundred. Ultimately we decided that this was
Speaker 7: my year for the two hundred and that we were
Speaker 7: going to focus on that alone. So I dropped out
Speaker 7: at the last minute, but I've definitely considered it. I
Speaker 7: think for now, it's just been like, all right, let's
Speaker 7: make this happen. Let's get an Olympic gold under my belt,
Speaker 7: so I can. I can get that title and keep it.
Speaker 7: But I think in the future, absolutely, I'm going to
Speaker 7: have to prove to the world and to myself that
Speaker 7: I have what it takes to double. You know, Michael
Speaker 7: Johnson had already set the president like everyone we knew,
Speaker 7: you know, he was going to go out and double
Speaker 7: and make some noise in both events. So you need
Speaker 7: someone who's really going to show up in both events
Speaker 7: and be a gold medal contender. And I definitely do
Speaker 7: see myself in the teacher being that in the four hundred.
Speaker 7: But right now we got I mean, like you said,
Speaker 7: we have a steep, steep pool of feign A meter runners.
Speaker 7: I mean even Sydney, you know, she could she could
Speaker 7: stop the hurdles and run the four hundred and it
Speaker 7: would be insane, so that would have to step up.
Speaker 1: Are you in the pool for the four by four?
Speaker 1: Would you like to run a leg on that? Because
Speaker 1: we sell Alison Felix. We've seen Abbie Steiner do it
Speaker 1: and you can run some fifty and that's saying something
Speaker 1: absolutely obsolutely.
Speaker 7: I want to leg. Absolutely. Look, I ran my quarter
Speaker 7: this year. I went to the World Relays this year,
Speaker 7: I ran that leg for TMA. I got us qualified,
Speaker 7: So I absolutely I'm in the pool. We've had some practices.
Speaker 7: We don't know the relay order yet. You know, it's
Speaker 7: always going to be surprised for TMUSA because it's going
Speaker 7: to be whoever is ready on that desk. So we
Speaker 7: got to see how We got to see how the
Speaker 7: quartermellos look in their finals. We got to see how
Speaker 7: people are looking in practice. We got to see how
Speaker 7: I look in this four by one tomorrow, so we're
Speaker 7: going to see how everyone looks and then the really
Speaker 7: coach Decias's on it. But I absolutely want to spot.
Speaker 7: Absolutely I like it.
Speaker 5: I'm more I'm more curious. I like the fact that
Speaker 5: something that you were able to do something that I
Speaker 5: was very horrible at. Is the fact that you were
Speaker 5: able to balance academics and still excel at your craft.
Speaker 5: I was horrible at it as someone who also went
Speaker 5: to Harvard, Right, I one semester, just one semester. Did
Speaker 5: you have an advantage based on your academic pursuits and
Speaker 5: neurobidic biology and sleep epidem epidemiology?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Does that give you an influence and different perspective on
Speaker 5: health and fitness? Because when it comes to health, I
Speaker 5: hate McDonald's. I still do to dedate throughout the entirety
Speaker 5: of my career. I hate McDonald's. Does it give you
Speaker 5: an advantage, you know, in different perspective of health and fitness?
Speaker 7: I think so. I think in college I had a
Speaker 7: very good and deep understanding of the importance of sleep
Speaker 7: and the importance of my health and how that affected
Speaker 7: my recovery.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: And you know, as an on the athlete, recovery is
Speaker 7: at least half a battle, and in track and field,
Speaker 7: that would say, it's definitely the majority of the battle.
Speaker 7: And so having that actual understanding of what's going on
Speaker 7: and what happens when you only get six hours of
Speaker 7: sleep a night, you know, instead of nine or ten.
Speaker 7: Right like that, that definitely did make a difference way.
Speaker 7: I had an appreciation for it. And when you actually
Speaker 7: understand why you're doing something you're doing, you definitely are
Speaker 7: more committed to it. So I was committed to that discipline,
Speaker 7: and that discipline is what got me to where I
Speaker 7: am today. Because I was never like the most talented athlete.
Speaker 7: That's why I didn't go to one of those, you know,
Speaker 7: really crazy track schools. But I was very disciplined and
Speaker 7: I did everything correct. I did everything right, and it
Speaker 7: got me here. And I think it's because I had
Speaker 7: that education and I had that background in that foundation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and just for the people that listen, if you
Speaker 5: listen to her answers, there's one word that she said
Speaker 5: three times, one word, and if we all had this,
Speaker 5: we would all excel in whatever it is that we do.
Speaker 5: And the key word she kept saying over and over
Speaker 5: was disciplined, and that's what we.
Speaker 3: All struggle with. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I read that Alison's Felix is one of your biggest inspirations,
Speaker 1: and you kind of mind your spride patterns. She's a
Speaker 1: long stride or longer de strider swords yourself. So have
Speaker 1: you had an opportunity to talk to Allison since you
Speaker 1: won the goal. Oh.
Speaker 7: I haven't gotten to talk to her since I've won
Speaker 7: the goal, but I see what she had to say
Speaker 7: about my race, and it's such an honor. Just the
Speaker 7: fact that she's watching me just have me so excited
Speaker 7: and like, I don't know, the little girl in me
Speaker 7: is like screaming because she believed in me for like
Speaker 7: the race. I saw her walk through my race on
Speaker 7: video and talking about, Oh, she looks so great, just
Speaker 7: walking up to the line and then I got out
Speaker 7: song and hard and then held on. She's like, no
Speaker 7: one's catching me, and I was just like, this is
Speaker 7: such an honor. I was so excited. But I spoke
Speaker 7: to her before the Olympics, and you know, she gave
Speaker 7: me advice and she told me to just keep doing
Speaker 7: exactly what I've been doing. Enjoy the moment. You know,
Speaker 7: everything that I've done to get to this point means
Speaker 7: I'm moving in the right direction, and so I just
Speaker 7: need to trust in my training because she's been through
Speaker 7: this and she's like, I know what it's like to
Speaker 7: be the favorite. She knows what it's like to go
Speaker 7: through the pressure, and so to hear that coming from her,
Speaker 7: I was like, right, you know, You're right, I got this,
Speaker 7: your coach, keep doing.
Speaker 1: Your coach, Tanyabu. For Bailey, she was a four hundred
Speaker 1: meter hurdle guy hurdler. I remember that race between her
Speaker 1: and Kim Batten when they was separating. They both went
Speaker 1: under the world record. So what is your training like
Speaker 1: because obviously you training. I think you trained in Austin
Speaker 1: or take some part to take where wherever.
Speaker 3: Is hot.
Speaker 1: And so what has she been able to help you
Speaker 1: with guide you with to help Gabby Thomas get to
Speaker 1: the pinnacle?
Speaker 7: Coach Bailey is the best, he is the best coach
Speaker 7: mentor she's such a mom figure and she was no
Speaker 7: lely athlete herself, like she has Olympic medals. So I
Speaker 7: mean I trained like a four to meet her runner
Speaker 7: because you know, she was a foreigner meter runner and
Speaker 7: she loves having us run. But mainly like she understands
Speaker 7: what it's like to be on the circuit, Like she
Speaker 7: understands what it's like to be an elite track runner.
Speaker 7: She gets that it is a doggy dog world. So
Speaker 7: having her like in my ear when I'm going to races,
Speaker 7: when I'm lining up before the Olympics, like telling me,
Speaker 7: you know, what you just gotta do what you got
Speaker 7: to do. You got to figure out how to win.
Speaker 7: And she taught me just how to win races. And
Speaker 7: you know, we can go and talk about, you know,
Speaker 7: this form stuff all day long. We can talk about
Speaker 7: you could do that, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: you have to figure out how to win races and
Speaker 7: win when it matters. And that's what that's what she
Speaker 7: knows how to do. And she knows how to coach
Speaker 7: me how to do that because she's been through it.
Speaker 5: Right, that's a good thing winning when it matters most
Speaker 5: So before the race, I'm just curious. I'm not very superstitious,
Speaker 5: but do you have any pre race rituals or superstitions
Speaker 5: you might have before race?
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I don't do any of that superstitions, So
Speaker 7: I don't believe in it because because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: You know, It's like something goes wrong for the race,
Speaker 7: it doesn't matter. Like if I forget a spike, it
Speaker 7: doesn't none of that matters. Like you just have to
Speaker 7: go out there and figure o how to win. If
Speaker 7: my nail color is not a certain color, none of
Speaker 7: it matters, you know, And like if we just don't
Speaker 7: I don't do it that way, and my coach doesn't
Speaker 7: do it that way either. She just told me to
Speaker 7: go out there and be a killer. That's the last
Speaker 7: thing she said to me.
Speaker 1: You've had one of the best seat in the house
Speaker 1: over the last five or six years, this US versus Jamaica,
Speaker 1: not only on the men's side, but on the women.
Speaker 1: You know, they have Shelley, and they have Elaine Thompson Harrow,
Speaker 1: they have Sharika Jackson, and before they had Stewart and
Speaker 1: they had so many great runners in yourself and have
Speaker 1: some Felix and.
Speaker 3: This one and that one. So what's that rivalry? Like,
Speaker 3: do you do you feel it's a rivalry?
Speaker 1: Do you know what's at state when the Green, Black
Speaker 1: and Gold.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I mean I grew up watching this rivalry. It's
Speaker 7: so fun to watch. I mean, Jamaica has some heavy hitters,
Speaker 7: and for me, unfortunately, like coming into professional track, I
Speaker 7: came in when they were just at that Yeah, like
Speaker 7: I was running against you know, I was, I was
Speaker 7: just in those races and so it was very intimidating
Speaker 7: for me. But you respect them so much. I think
Speaker 7: that right now we are in such an amazing era
Speaker 7: of American women's sprinting, like we are really crushing the game.
Speaker 7: But you know, it's a it's a give and take,
Speaker 7: it's a push and pull. He has it back and forth,
Speaker 7: like you know, when one of us drops a crazy time,
Speaker 7: the Jamaicans don't want to see that, they're gonna they're
Speaker 7: gonna snatch it right back and vice versa. And I
Speaker 7: think that's really cool because we're really bringing women's sprinting
Speaker 7: to new heights, Like we're just such a good product
Speaker 7: right now because of that rivalry and even you know,
Speaker 7: having Sharika out this year, it's really unfortunate to not
Speaker 7: have your ranning world champion in the race. But it's
Speaker 7: just part of that give and take. You know, this
Speaker 7: is not her year, just like it wasn't my year
Speaker 7: last year. And she will be back and we will
Speaker 7: go at it. You know, she'll get that healthy. It's
Speaker 7: really hard to be really fast for a long time
Speaker 7: and stay healthy, as y'all know, like this is it's
Speaker 7: really hard on your boss to be at the top
Speaker 7: of the game for a while. It takes a lot
Speaker 7: of management, a lot of planning, and thankfully my coach
Speaker 7: and I had planned this year perfectly, but I know
Speaker 7: she'll be back, So you know, we can't we can't
Speaker 7: stay get complacent with it, because that's that's the sports
Speaker 7: Jamaica versus USA.
Speaker 1: I forgot about the great two hundred meter run Veronica
Speaker 1: Campbell Brown who dumped her to her and Allison used
Speaker 1: to go back and forth before Elaine Thompson, Harra and
Speaker 1: Shriika Jackson got to it. The mayor of your hometown
Speaker 1: in Northampton, Massachusetts say they will honor you with a
Speaker 1: Gabby Thomas Day bull up as a little girl, and
Speaker 1: you look at yourself now, I think you're twenty seven
Speaker 1: years of age. Could you have imagined your life? Say
Speaker 1: you're five six years old back then, and you look
Speaker 1: at your life now, could you have imagined this?
Speaker 3: Gabby?
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I really cannot. And you know I had
Speaker 7: dreams of like being a doctor, being an actress, but
Speaker 7: you know, little kids they say that stuff. But I
Speaker 7: couldn't have never imagined that I would be chasing dreams
Speaker 7: like this and actually achieving them. But you know, I
Speaker 7: grew up in my mom was such a hard worker
Speaker 7: and she went after her dreams. And she always told me,
Speaker 7: like you have a light, you were going to shine
Speaker 7: so bright and you were so special. And when you
Speaker 7: have a parent that instills that in you, you know,
Speaker 7: you start to believe it deep, like in your core.
Speaker 7: And so I did, even though I didn't know what
Speaker 7: that would look like. I didn't know what I would
Speaker 7: go on to accomplish, Like I just innately knew that,
Speaker 7: and so I still carry that. And so I want,
Speaker 7: you know, my future children and any young girl who's
Speaker 7: watching me to believe that too. If you genuinely can
Speaker 7: believe that and think, Okay, I can do something special.
Speaker 7: I am made for this. You can do it. You
Speaker 7: just really have to believe it. And so I think
Speaker 7: that you know, my career, my my trajectory has just
Speaker 7: been you know, a showcase of that.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. I have another question. Listen.
Speaker 5: We know Gabby Thomas the academic scholar. We know Gabby Thomas.
Speaker 5: The job's not finished over in pairs right now, but
Speaker 5: we know Gabby to the track superstar. Are there any
Speaker 5: hobbies and interests you do outside of track and feel
Speaker 5: that we don't know about that you enjoy.
Speaker 7: I mean, other than like volunteering yet I have a dog.
Speaker 7: I love my dog. That's actually my baby. He's a pug.
Speaker 7: And I mean, I just love spending time with him.
Speaker 7: We go on walks, we go to the park, we
Speaker 7: go to the lake. Austin is such an outdoorsy town
Speaker 7: or you know, kind of small city, and so I
Speaker 7: just like to be outside, you know, hang out with
Speaker 7: my friends. I really have a very very normal life,
Speaker 7: like a very typical simple life outside of track and
Speaker 7: school and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Ask you this, what's the biggest difference between running professionally
Speaker 1: and running collegiately, Because you're not running for books now,
Speaker 1: now you're running. This is how you pay bills, this
Speaker 1: is how you get that car, That's how you keep
Speaker 1: a roof over your right.
Speaker 7: That's exactly right. I mean, okay, the biggest, actual main
Speaker 7: difference is like the recovery. You have to rest. So
Speaker 7: for me, I think that was the hardest transition. It's
Speaker 7: saying your friends to do things all the time, like
Speaker 7: you can't go to these dinners, you can't go to
Speaker 7: these parties, And that's the commitment you have to make
Speaker 7: to get to this moment to be a gold medalist.
Speaker 7: That's the hardest fill to swallow, I think, because it's
Speaker 7: easy to say, but in practice it's very hard. And
Speaker 7: also dealing with pressure. Like I said before, like when
Speaker 7: you're in college, you're running so many races, you have
Speaker 7: a team that'll just kind of be there for you.
Speaker 7: And you know, he lose not the end of the world,
Speaker 7: but if you lose on a pro level, it really
Speaker 7: can be the end of the world. So it's like,
Speaker 7: whos like that's paying your bills. You're gonna have to
Speaker 7: go figure something else out if you lose races, And
Speaker 7: so it's like whoever can deal with that. If you
Speaker 7: can't deal with it, you're just not going to have
Speaker 7: a career. But if you can, then then you will.
Speaker 1: Can you handicap the two hundred meters? We got no allows,
Speaker 1: who's the American record holder. He's the three time world champ.
Speaker 1: We got to Bogo, and to Bogo is nothing to
Speaker 1: sneeze that. He's run nine eight two in one hundred meters,
Speaker 1: He's run nineteen fifty in the two hundred meters.
Speaker 3: And he went low forty four in the four hundred meters.
Speaker 1: So he has the speed and he had and he
Speaker 1: has the strength to really stay in toe to toe.
Speaker 1: We got Cannon Binarik, Hey, we got Arian Knighton. You
Speaker 1: can't count out type the Grass from Canada handicapped the
Speaker 1: two hundred meters for us.
Speaker 3: Ooh ooh, I.
Speaker 7: Am so excited for this race. Look you said it best.
Speaker 7: I mean, Tobogo, you can knot tip him out. He
Speaker 7: has shown incredible fitness this season and he is staying committed.
Speaker 7: I mean, his four hundred strength looks incredible. Arian is
Speaker 7: just a young prodigy. He's incredible. Kenny shows up and
Speaker 7: Kenny is very talented, and he looked really good through
Speaker 7: the semis. I don't want to be biased, but like
Speaker 7: Noah really inspired me with that one hundred. He showed
Speaker 7: us that he will figure out how to yes, and
Speaker 7: I love to see that. That's what I that's the
Speaker 7: best thing about athletes that you figure out how to win.
Speaker 7: And this is his bread and butter. So I Noah
Speaker 7: looks amazing, He looks amazed. I cannot imagine losing a race.
Speaker 7: But I mean, we've got to see they all look
Speaker 7: so good because.
Speaker 3: It comes down to that moment.
Speaker 1: Who can handle that moment, who can who can be
Speaker 1: exactly best in the moment because it doesn't matter exactly
Speaker 1: race tomorrow and somebody else might win race next week.
Speaker 1: On the circuit and somebody else might win.
Speaker 7: But today, exactly exactly, they're all capable of having that
Speaker 7: gold medal. All of every single one of them in
Speaker 7: that final can can have a gold medal and then limp.
Speaker 5: To it when you when you when you look back,
Speaker 5: when you're when it's all said and done. What legacy
Speaker 5: do you hope to leave, both on the track and
Speaker 5: off the track.
Speaker 7: I hope to leave the legacy of giving back to
Speaker 7: your community. For one, I think that is one of
Speaker 7: the best things you can do. And that's kind of
Speaker 7: what I was raised on, is how can you give
Speaker 7: back to society in a meaningful way? A legacy of
Speaker 7: showing that if you work hard you will be successful,
Speaker 7: and be kind to people. I mean those three things
Speaker 7: right there, and and you're good, You're good, you will
Speaker 7: be successful. I just I want the younger generation to
Speaker 7: see that.
Speaker 3: Are they animal world that the Americans can get?
Speaker 1: Will you guys challenge that that forty point eight two
Speaker 1: that the women ran in Beijing?
Speaker 3: Is that possible?
Speaker 1: Can we see sid in film cabol Lord that fifty
Speaker 1: point sixty five in the four hundred meter hurdles for
Speaker 1: the women?
Speaker 3: Will we see Carston Warholme?
Speaker 1: Why Benjamin, you have Alison do Santo's we have a
Speaker 1: samba with Tutter. Will we see anybody go up on
Speaker 1: the world record in any of the remaining sprints American?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 7: I think, I think you definitely. I think y'all are
Speaker 7: going to have to open up your wallets a little
Speaker 7: bit because.
Speaker 3: I spending our money. Gavin, I hate.
Speaker 7: To say, I hate to say it, but I do think.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the four by one girls we
Speaker 7: can definitely challenge the world record, the previous world record team.
Speaker 7: They spoke to us just last week about it, and
Speaker 7: I think we are very capable. And the hurdles, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's a rap. It's a rap tonight. I don't know
Speaker 7: if it's gonna be some there Sydney, but I think
Speaker 7: it'll definitely go down.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna have to run loaf If Filmica beats said,
Speaker 1: she's gonna have to go low fifty, maybe even sub fifty.
Speaker 3: Sidney is ing.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about in great form. She's in great shape.
Speaker 1: She's a flawless I mean, she can run, she can
Speaker 1: run the one teas, she can run the hurdle the
Speaker 1: lower for the.
Speaker 3: Women and be good.
Speaker 1: Her taking so far, she has tremendous strength coming into it.
Speaker 1: That twenty two oh seven that's still like what the
Speaker 1: eighth or ninth best time run at two hundred meters.
Speaker 1: She's run forty eight seventy five at four hundred meters.
Speaker 1: She's probably if you run to work at it, get
Speaker 1: a start right. She might be sub eleven at one
Speaker 1: hundred meters in order for fifty and I know film
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. She ran a blistering sub forty eight split
Speaker 1: on an anchor leg. We've seen her win the world
Speaker 1: indoor at forty nine seventeen, but sin is a different
Speaker 1: if she this is an upset. I don't care what
Speaker 1: anybody tells you.
Speaker 3: The film Cupon.
Speaker 1: Beats Sidney McLaughlin Lagroni in the four hundred meters hurdle.
Speaker 3: This is a huge upset.
Speaker 4: Ain't happening. Ain't happening.
Speaker 5: Ain't happening, Captain, No serious one thing said gonna do.
Speaker 5: Like you said, It's all about moments, and whenever that
Speaker 5: moment arises, she's always good.
Speaker 4: The always shows up to the case.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one thing, Bobby. The one thing.
Speaker 1: If you go back and study Bobby Curse's history, his
Speaker 1: runners at big meets, they perform, if they if they
Speaker 1: line up, they run, they run well. And so that's
Speaker 1: not the short change filmical because she's been unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: actually kind of want to see that thing come down
Speaker 1: in the four hundred meters, the four by four. I
Speaker 1: won't see the film. Get the baton at the same time,
Speaker 1: and let's see what happened, Let's see what it's really about.
Speaker 5: But matter of fact, you know what, my daughter, she's
Speaker 5: a freshman at University Kentucky.
Speaker 4: She run track at University Kentucky.
Speaker 5: If there's anything that you can tell me that I
Speaker 5: can pass on to my baby to make sure she
Speaker 5: stays inspired and stays discipline. Is there anything you can
Speaker 5: tell me that can pass on to her? So she
Speaker 5: absolutely the stride for greatness, oh Man.
Speaker 7: As a collegiate track athlete, I would tell her to
Speaker 7: just really focus on enjoying the process. Like I think
Speaker 7: what really makes a track athlete great is that they're
Speaker 7: enjoying the environment that they're in, right, and that they're
Speaker 7: just just taking in every moment of the process and
Speaker 7: focus on getting better. Don't focus on every time, don't
Speaker 7: focus on every single race, because I think you get
Speaker 7: so many races. Just focus on the overall journey and
Speaker 7: getting better and track and fields. The sax is never
Speaker 7: going to be, you know, a streetline. It's always going
Speaker 7: to have up and down. So she just needs to
Speaker 7: write it out and enjoy it and she'll she'll do great.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Gabby. Us at NIGHTCAP want to say how
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Speaker 3: You got but one thing, Wait a minute, but you
Speaker 3: got to buy McDonald's. Just once you got it.
Speaker 7: It's a deal.
Speaker 3: Gabby. Congratulations. I'm so happy for you. I'm so proud
Speaker 3: of you. Congra.
Speaker 1: Good luck in the four by one and the four
Speaker 1: by four. Tell the ladies good luck, congratulations and we'll
Speaker 1: see you down the road.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, wait and tell and tell Quincy Wilson We're
Speaker 5: gonna race when you get home too.
Speaker 3: I will do Thank you, we'll get some rest. Thank
Speaker 3: you for taking time out of your schedule. I'll understand
Speaker 3: you're very busy.
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule,
Speaker 1: Gabby giving us a few moments of your time. I'm
Speaker 1: sure the nightcap, our audience, our subscribers is gonna greatly
Speaker 1: appreciate this in the day.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, and good luck.
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you, Bye, guys,