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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8s5RmbDGMInside Track from World Athletics, hosted by Sonia Richard Ross and Greg Rutherford, features Olympic champion Daley Thompson. They discuss the ongoing Paris Olympics, with Thompson sharing insights on his experiences, the importance of marketing athletics to attract youth, and his views on recent documentaries about the sport. Thompson humorously recounts his rivalry with Jürgen Hingsen and emphasizes the camaraderie among athletes. The episode also includes predictions for the men's 100m race and a segment answering listener questions. The hosts highlight the need for better public engagement with athletics to maintain its popularity.
"Michael Johnson hosted a Legends dinner of sorts and it was just phenomenal. Carl Lewis was there, Michael was there, Maurice Greene, Otis Beasley, Jessica Ennis, Denise Lewis. It was just incredible."
"We are joined by British sporting royalty, one of the greatest British athletes of all time, Daley Thompson."
"I've been going to watch all kinds of sports and I've had a brilliant time. The best thing so far has been the rugby sevens. It was incredible, the atmosphere was electric."
"Out of nothing, about 10 or 15 minutes before the game, the French people just started singing the National Anthem. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up."
"Leo Neugebauer, the German, is looking good. There's a guy from Puerto Rico looking good, and Damian Warner from Canada. They all had a great start."
"I think once I was kind of done and within 6 months or a year I knew I was done. Then it was kind of okay."
"The thing that I actually missed most was just being with the boys and girls and just having those close group of people that you share your life with every day."
"All of a sudden you're waking up at home and in my case, there's a couple of kids jumping on me. Now I've got to look after them rather than thinking I've got to get to the track and work."
"Whenever I see myself on the screen, I don't like how I look, I don't like how I talk. But to be honest, the kids have all kind of said they're okay with it."
"You are synonymous with British Athletics really. You had three computer games. There are not many athletes that have ever managed that in the world."
"Our sport and all sports apart from football struggle to get any attention because soccer sucks up everything. It sucks up all the money, it sucks up all the air time, and so when it does that, it also sucks up all the kids."
"What Sprint is going to do is open the door for people to really fall in love with the athletes, to be able to be invested in them as human beings, and then want to follow them all along their career."
"He only did it because he used to play rugby but dislocated his shoulder, so he couldn't play rugby anymore. So then he started doing the decathlon."
"Every single time she ever went to a championship, she felt the pressure because it was always what Mom and Dad had done, and they always compared as well."
"If you're good at athletics, it will only help whatever else you're doing. It is the foundation."
"I had this feeling that I was going to be good at something. I didn't know what it was, but I had this feeling. I always kind of made it to where I was going."
"I never thought that I couldn't be a superhero."
"I just think it's really cool to actually hear you say like think about it like wait there really wasn't anyone it was really just this dream I had in my own heart and so I think that's really inspiring for a lot of people out there to like know like yes you can keep going you can believe in yourself you maybe you don't see someone that looks like you have that has done it before someone in your community but you can still be the first so that was really cool."
"As a kid I always said I will make it as a professional Sportsman at something and I didn't know what sport it was everybody would laugh I'd literally be in school and whatever else and go I'm going to and as I got a little bit older into my teens I'm going to go to the Olympics nobody ever believed it."
"I went to Montreal when I was 17 years old for the Olympics and after them afterwards I was with a group of people one of them is called Brian Hooper who appeared in the in the documentary and he said yeah after the 76 Olympics Dy said he's coming next time and he's going to win and we all laughed at him."
"So D we're going to do predict the podium so you got well I'm going to explain to you right now you got to give us your top three picks gold silver bronze we figured that the decathlon would be too easy so we're not going to have you do that we want you to help us with the men's 100 can you give us your top three picks for the men men's 100."
"I'd have to go for the guy in the 100 who's got that magical name okay that's number one Noah not magical no Kain Thompson oh Kain Thompson yes yes yes yeah you're right how did I miss that I was like him just now okay I was thinking you know I was thinking I was thinking of the Ark like Noah the Ark miraculous very good."
"I think that you could go with uh oblique sevil I'm going to go with um I'm I I this a sleeper Pig but I feel good about him I think Kenny berer is going to get on there I feel like he's so confident he has the strength of a 200 meter Runner so I'm going to pick him in my bronze spot so I can loan him to you if you want."
"Dy you are the first person to to ever hold all titles simultaneously Outdoors yeah so this Olympic Commonwealth European and World there are five British athletes that have managed that can you name all five."
"lymp for Christie S G yes my favorite athlete mhm Jonathan Edwards yes and who would be the other let me give you a hint you yes you got it that's it that's it you and you you got it you got it I feel like that all you do is win win win no matter what."
"Why are British athletes so humble no and was it 9 years you were unbeaten uh I can't remember but I think it was 9 years 6 months four I'm being silly I'm being silly so why is that though you think it's just cultural yeah I think it's just cultural I just think you know we don't want to be like showoffs like you look you heard it here first all Americans are showoffs not me not my words."
"Are you ready for this we're going to be serious now yeah this is serious this serious business this serious business when is the camera going to start rolling oh hang on wait is the camera on okay no you can't look at this either because you're a part of the you have to you have to guess it too this yes this is a challenge for both my British Superstar athletes you got to guess the athlete okay so I'm going to start with really tough questions and then it's going to get harder and harder whoever gets it first wins another cookie."
"This athlete has appeared in TV shows and a movie in their home country okay so you no guesses so keep moving keep moving okay all right clue number two this athlete is a multiple time world record holder but never won Gold at a major games Asaf pal."
"This athlete was disqualified from their event in 1988 at the summer games in Seoul."
"Ben Johnson. That's right."
"We had a great rivalry and he was the reason that I trained for 350 days a year, eight hours a day."
"As soon as we retired, we became really good friends. We've been on holidays together and all kinds of stuff."
"He called me to ask me what I thought was going to happen in the decathlon today."
"Isn't sleep important to athletes? Why are the village beds made of cardboard?"
"They made it out of cardboard because then they can just sort of be reused or repurposed." "They didn't want to promote sex in the village so they didn't want the beds to be too sturdy."
"Doesn't the village also have lots of condoms and everything else on mass?"
"We should just get a random person literally walking past the stadium, you open a door and you just pull him in and go right, you're in the 100m final."
"My brother-in-law... he comes to my practice... I think he barely broke a minute."
"I have been so fortunate to have three incredible co-hosts... How could I pick? I just love them all so much."
"Go to the World Athletics website where you can get all of the behind-the-scenes of the sport of athletics."
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