Best Woman Mag Podcasts (2024)

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Val Constien Recaps And Reflects On Winning The U.S. Olympic Trials Steeplechase, Third-Fastest American Woman All-Time (9:03.22) 33:06

10h ago33:06

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“For me, the most important thing is practicing winning and practicing trying to win. Because at the end of the day, PRs are awesome and running super fast is great, but people aren’t going to say, ‘Oh, well, 9:03, the third fastest time.’ They’re going to say ‘Val won,’ right? And so for me, I just want to try to win. That’s all I care about. I do…

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Whittni Morgan On Getting The Call To Represent Team USA In The 5000m At The Paris Olympics After Finishing 5th At The U.S. Olympic Trials 38:38

19h ago38:38

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Whittni Morgan had a little bit of delayed gratification as she was named to the U.S. Olympic team in the 5000m about a week after the Trials. So how did it happen? Elle St. Pierre won the 5000m and finished third in the 1500m but has decided to only run the 1500m at the Paris Olympics. This elevated Parker Valby into that final spot for the 5000m …

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This Week In Track and Field: Faith Kipyegon Breaks Her Own 1500m World Record; Yaroslava Mahuchikh Takes Down A 37-Year-Old High Jump World Record; 3 Men Break 1:42 For 800M + Our Review of SPRINT 1:11:57

3d ago1:11:57

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We are back with another edition of This Week In Track and Field after a bit of a break due to the U.S. Olympic Trials. The Diamond League returned to action and brought some spectacular results right away as we saw two world records in Faith Kipyegon breaking her own world record in the women’s 1,500m in 3:49.04 and Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh t…

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Box To Box Films Co-Founder Paul Martin On The Making Of 'Sprint'; The Netflix-Effect On Sports + Challenges Of Track Documentary Storytelling 47:58

4d ago47:58

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"Sprinters are just this A-type. Because they have to be. What you realize is this sport is probably won and lost in those moments right before, it’s won and lost on the line, it’s won and lost when the gun goes off. It's all about projecting your presence onto your biggest competitor. As soon as we got into it, these guys didn't hold back, whether…

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Parker Valby After Qualifying For Her First Olympic Team In The 10,000 Meters, What She's Looking Forward To The Most In Paris | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 22:31

9d ago22:31

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Newly minted Olympian and 5x NCAA champion Parker Valby joins us live in Eugene after her runner-up finish in the 10,000m and 4th place finish in the 5000m. Parker shares about how she almost decided not to contest the Olympic Trials 10,000m, how she’s been able to stay mentally composed with how often she’s raced this year, what it’s been like rac…

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Gabby Thomas' Gold Medal Hopes For Paris After Winning The U.S. Olympic Trials, Being A Face For The Sport's Newest Ventures | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 29:12

9d ago29:12

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“It’s bigger than me. It’s about my purpose and what I want to show in track and field, what I want to show people who are watching, and the younger generation. It’s about that. If you get caught up in, ‘I need to prove to everyone that I belong here and deserve this,’ it’s not really about that.” 2x Olympic medalist and 2x world medalist Gabby Tho…

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Payton Otterdahl After Qualifying For His Second Olympics In The Shot Put + Thoughts On A Medal Sweep With Ryan Crouser, Joe Kovacs | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE 30:38

9d ago30:38

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“We see upsets all the time in this sport. Anything can happen to anybody on any given day. Those two are just on a whole other level. It’s kind of motivating to me. They’re #1 and #2 of all-time. They are the best two in the sport. They are active, they’re in their prime right now… As a guy who’s a little bit of a peg down from them, it’s super mo…

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Chari Hawkins On Qualifying For The U.S. Olympic Heptathlon Team After A LONG Journey Since 2016 | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 39:40

9d ago39:40

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“Especially seeing people who were young and doing track now, to kind of be like, ‘Listen. You CAN do it, even if it takes you 20 years,’ because I’ve actually been doing track officially for 20 years.” Chari Hawkins joins us live in Eugene to share about her path to becoming one of the world’s best heptathletes. She chats with us about how she’s s…

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Grant Holloway On Burying Ghosts Of Tokyo To Chase Gold In Paris + Why He Should Be A Bigger Star | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 45:32

9d ago45:32

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“If you can't bet on yourself at the end of the day, then what the hell are you doing? I know if my life depended on it, I know I can show up… I can only lose to myself and that's when I'm not executing my race plan.” 5x world champion and world record holder Grant Holloway joins us live in Eugene after booking his ticket to another Olympic Games. …

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Brittany Brown Decided To Go All-In On The 200m And It Paid Off To Qualify For Her First Olympics | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 19:10

9d ago19:10

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“I feel like there’s moments where you’re like, ‘Should I go or should I not go?’ after such a big loss. Go. That’s the best time you can go and do something after a big loss. Let’s do it, let’s try again. The most important thing you can always do is just try again… Just because you had a loss doesn't mean you can’t pick yourself up and try again.…

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Weini Kelati Reflects On Winning An Epic 10,000m Final To Qualify For Her First Olympic Team | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 17:02

9d ago17:02

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“Every time I felt like I was going to fall off, I said, ‘No, I’m not going to let it happen. Mentally I am way stronger than this…’ I talked to myself in the last minute. I said, ‘No. I am mentally struggling, this is not hard. I’ve been running a lot faster than this during practice, so I can do this.’ That helped me to come back again.” 2x U.S. …

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Kenny Bednarek On Qualifying For The US Olympic Team In The 100m & 200m; Facing Noah Lyles In Paris | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 21:19

9d ago21:19

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“After the 100, you could see I was really ticked off because I knew I should have won that and I lost it. But with the 200, there was a lot of upside and I was happy to see the performance because I was like, ‘Hey I was there and I let off the gas because I had to, but Paris is what matters and I know I'm going to be ready.” 2x Olympian and 3x Wor…

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Freddie Crittenden On A Historic 110m Hurdles Final To Make His First Olympic Team While Unsponsored | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 26:09

9d ago26:09

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“It was a very, very low point and I feel like track wasn't loving me like I was loving it. I was ready to be done. Every athlete has their own story. Every athlete gets to a point where it's like, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t be doing this…’ Going through that, it's very motivational to be in a place like this. I never thought I would be here, I never thoug…

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Galen Rupp Says He's Got Unfinished Business In The Marathon, Reflecting On The Best Races Of His Career | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 38:33

9d ago38:33

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“After the (2012) Olympics, it just was such a big boost because for so long you're scrapping and fighting. I was 5th, 6th, 7th in a lot of these races and I kept saying, ‘This is going to be the year I'm going to get over the hump.’ For it to finally happen was just such a big moment for me, for my own confidence. After that I knew that I belonged…

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TRIALS TALK DAY 10 FT. NIKKI HILTZ: SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE BREAKS HER OWN WR; NIKKI HILTZ LEADS 8 SUB-4:00 IN EPIC 1500M FINAL; RAI BENJAMIN FIRES WARNING SHOT; BRYCE HOPPEL GOES 1:42 1:23:40

11d ago1:23:40

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Last one, fast one?! The final day of the Olympic Trials was one for the history books. In every. single. event. that took place on the tracks yesterday afternoon, the Olympic Trials meet record was broken. In multiple events, simply qualifying for Team USA meant you had to produce a performance that ranked in the U.S. top-10 of all time. 12.37 in …

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TRIALS TALK DAY 9: WEINI KELATI, PARKER VALBY AND KARISSA SCHWEIZER MAKE THE 10K TEAM (EXPLAINED!); NOAH LYLES GOES 19.53; GABBY THOMAS RETAINS HER 200M CROWN 1:08:41

12d ago1:08:41

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A fitting theme for the penultimate day of competition at the 2024 Olympic Trials: it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Just ask Monae’ Nichols, who sat in fourth place in the final of the long jump competition. Nichols has a 6.97m personal best from 2022, but heading into Trials she was one centimeter shy of the Olympic qualifying standard with a 6.85m s…

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Courtney Wayment And Coach Diljeet Taylor On Their Journey Together From BYU To The Olympics After A Runner-Up FinishIn The U.S. Olympic Trials Steeplechase | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 32:50

12d ago32:50

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“The expectation was we want to chase this and put her on the line in a way to be able to compete. Physically, I think things went really smooth. This is probably the best build she’s had in the eight years I’ve coached her. Mentally, it probably wasn't the best build. There were some battles that she faced and the race never tells the whole story.…

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Joe Fahnbulleh On The State Of The Sprints In 2024, What Makes Grant Holloway Special + His Medal Hopes In Paris | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 37:11

12d ago37:11

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“We are going into a new phase of track and field. And with that new phase, there has to be a new element. The standard is shifting, it’s only a matter of time that the world record is in danger. I’m not saying by who, but I’m just saying that if the standard keeps on going lower… it’s only a matter of time before 19.9 will get you sixth.” 2x Olymp…

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Patrick Tiernan On Representing Australia For A Third Olympics, Training For Marathon | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 28:38

12d ago28:38

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“I’ve spent a lot of my career getting outkicked in the last 400… The marathon is something people always wanted me to do, it was just a matter of when I was actually ready to do it. It’s a long way to run.” 3x Olympian for Australia and 2:07:45 marathoner Patrick Tiernan joins us live in Eugene. Pat breaks down his previous Olympic experiences, we…

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U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Runner-Up Emily Sisson Updates Us On Training For Paris 2024 | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 16:30

10d ago16:30

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“I think it’s important to have confidence in the plan that you choose, just going into the race and standing on the starting line knowing you did everything you could. I'm going to focus on my strengths and know I'm at the top.” 2x Olympian and American record holder Emily Sisson joins us live in Eugene to catch us up on how training has been goin…

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Valarie Allman And Coach Zebulon Sion Ready For Olympic Gold Medal Title Defense, Reflections On Winning U.S. Olympic Trials Discus | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 19:08

12d ago19:08

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“As an athlete, you have those indicators that you look at, you track, you want to gain confidence from – and those have been going very well. But it’s also that belief that this is going to be a really good year. We’re going to accomplish our goals. We’re going to give it our best and feel proud of whatever that ends up being.” Reigning Olympic Ch…

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TRIALS TALK DAY 8: GRANT HOLLOWAY HURDLES INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS, GABBY THOMAS FIRES A 21.78 WARNING SHOT, HOBBS KESSLER WITH A 1:43?! 1:08:23

13d ago1:08:23

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The track is HOT. Okay, it’s actually quite pleasant by Eugene-in-June standards, with temperatures in the high 70s and a pleasant breeze that always seems to be a tailwind in Hayward Field. But the performances laid down last night in Day 8 of the Olympic Trials sure heated up the stadium — even in events where we’re not on finals yet. For the fir…

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TRIALS TALK DAY 7: VAL CONSTIEN LEADS EPIC WOMEN'S 3000M STEEPLECHASE FINAL, FIRST LOOK AT RAI BENJAMIN + SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE + 1500M ROUND 1 ANALYSIS 1:33:27

14d ago1:33:27

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Did you miss us?! The U.S. Olympic Trials are back and better than ever in the second half of the 8-day program, with incredible drama, upsets, and underdog stories across the board. The race of the day (and perhaps the week?) was the women’s steeplechase, where a fast early pace and a topsy-turvy final lap ended with a whole slew of personal bests…

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Fred Kerley's Big Bet On Himself Pays Off, Qualifies For Paris Olympics With Third Place Finish In 100m At U.S. Olympic Trials | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 18:03

14d ago18:03

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“I will forever bet on myself no matter what. If my gut is telling me something’s going wrong, I'm going to make sure it’s going right. I'm always going to bet on myself no matter what… And that’s been paying off my entire career." Fred Kerley joins us live in Eugene after finishing third in the 100m at the U.S. Olympics Trials to book his ticket t…

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Allie Wilson On Her Mental Breakthrough To Qualify For Her First Olympic Team, Reflections On Her U.S. Olympic Trials Runner-Up Finish In The 800m | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE! 39:09

14d ago39:09

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“I know I made the right decision, but I don't even think it was a matter of if I made the right or wrong decision because either way I was going to make it be the right decision. I was going to force it to be the right decision. I feel like that’s what we had to do. There were so many question marks coming into this year, this Olympic Trials. I li…

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