Welcome back to Brad’s Olympic Track & Field wrap up!

I hope you enjoyed the lengthy presentation summarizing the men’s events, and now it’s time for a show dedicated to the awesome performances of the females on the track and the field for the Paris 2024 Olympics. In the first show, I gave you a little bit of an overview about my fascination with Olympic Track & Field and I also mentioned something I talk about more in this episode, which is how great it is to see a sport where the males and females are equally represented in the categories of stardom and coverage—unlike some other sports that tend to exist in the shadow of the men’s games (like basketball).

If you want to hear a comprehensive review of this year’s Olympic Women’s Track & Field Competition, this is the episode for you.

 

TIMESTAMPS:

This podcast looks at the women’s performances in the Paris Olympics from Brad’s perspective. [00:49]

It is frustrating when the commentators talk about expectations of the outcomes of the races. [05:49]

The 400 was a fantastic race. Marileidy Paulino, from the Dominican Republic, had one of the fastest runs of all times. [08:06]

Depending on the race distance, the athlete learns a certain race pattern. [11:06]

Many of the athletes commented that the construction of the track and the super spikes worn in Paris made a difference. [15:38]

In some countries, if you are a number one world ranked athlete, you have a pass to be selected for your event before the Olympic trials.  [18:40]

Faith Kipyegon reigned for the third consecutive gold medal.  Jessica Hull has been steadily taking down her time. [22:00]

As usual the doping suspicions are always around.  Now days these athletes are subject to random unannounced year-round drug testing for the officials. [24:32]

Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet had an exciting finish. Sifan Hassan had an incredible race, went home, rested and came back to run in the marathon as well. [29:47]

The 100-meter hurdles is always a very exciting race most often finishing in a photo finish. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone got the world’s record in the 400-meter hurdles. [35:27]

The Steeplechase is dominated by the Africans on both male and female sides. The four by four brought the US team more medals. [44:12]

The high jump saw records broken as expected. Yaroslava Mahuchikh from Ukraine was very proud to represent her country. [48:01]

Pole vaulting found the two winners who shared the gold in the world championships meet head to head again, with Kennedy clearing the high bar this time.  It is so great to see. [49:53]

Long jumper Tara Davis Woodall from USA came away with the gold. Thea Lafond from Dominca won the gold in the triple jump.[50:29]

Shot put, unfortunately we saw the very popular Chase Ealey get knocked out in the qualifying. US did get gold in the discus with Valerie Alman defending her world championship. [51:47]

In the hammer throw, Cameron Rogers from Canada first, And the javelin was won by Kitaguchi from Japan. [52:55]

In the Heptathlon, Shari Hawkins made her Olympic debut at age 33 but, unfortunately, she got knocked out of the competition. Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam went home with the gold. [53:27]

Mixed relay is a new event in the Olympics. The teams can choose what order they wanted to run their athletes in right when they first come out. [55:04] 

 

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