The Final Leg

The USA Olympic Trials will Kick-off on Friday, June 21st in Eugene Oregon. The top 3 in each event will book their ticket to Paris for the Olympic Games in August this Summer. Who will be making the team in the 400m Dash? Host: Anderson Emerole | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📱 Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter 🎥 ⁠⁠Subscribe to The Final Leg YouTube channel⁠...

The USA Olympic Trials will Kick-off on Friday, June 21st in Eugene Oregon. The top 3 in each event will book their ticket to Paris for the Olympic Games in August this Summer. Who will be making the team in the Women's 200m Dash? Host: Anderson Emerole | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📱 Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter 🎥 ⁠⁠Subscribe to The Final Leg YouT...

The USA Olympic Trials will Kick-off on Friday, June 21st in Eugene Oregon. The top 3 in each event will book their ticket to Paris for the Olympic Games in August this Summer. Who will be making the team in the 100m Dash? Host: Anderson Emerole | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📱 Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter 🎥 ⁠⁠Subscribe to The Final Leg YouTube channel⁠...

The USA Olympic Trials will Kick-off on Friday, June 21st in Eugene Oregon. The top 3 in each event will book their ticket to Paris for the Olympic Games in August this Summer. Who will be making the team in the 100m Dash? Host: Anderson Emerole | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@atkoeme on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📱 Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠@emeroleanderson on Twitter 🎥 ⁠⁠Subscribe to The Final Leg YouTube channel⁠⁠...

On June 15th, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce opened up her 2024 Season Running 11.15 seconds in the 100m Dash. This was her first race on the track since the Budapest World championships in 2023 where she won a Bronze medal in the 100m dash. Now that she has opened up, what does this mean in terms of her potential to make Jamaica’s Olympic team? In today's episode, I give my initial reactions to Shel...

The 2024 NCAA Championships capped off on Saturday with an NCAA Record by Arkansas in the Women's 4x400m Relay. This performance was the perfect bookend to another year of amazing performances by collegiate athletes from across the country. From McKenzie Long and Ackelia Smith, to Louie Hinchliffe and Caleb Deal, the track and field world was graced with some of the best times and marks in the...

At the 2024 European Athletics Championships, we arguably saw the greatest Triple Jump competition in history. Jordan Diaz Fortun of Spain and Pedro Pichardo of Portugal went jump for jump fighting until the 6th round for the Gold Medal. Diaz Fortun came out on top with a mark of 18.18m, moving him to no.3 on the all-time list. Pichardo jumped 18.04m, which was just the 2nd time in history someone...

The Men's 200m dash is arguably the most competitive event in the world right now. You have the 3 time World Champion Noah Lyles, the current world leader Kenny Bednarek, the young rising stars in Letsile Tebogo and Erriyon Knighton, the reigning Olympic Champion Andre De Grasse, and a bunch more. Today I share my top-7 men in the 200m dash before June kicks off with the Olympic Trials, Nation...

The 2024 Racers Grand Prix in Jamaica produced some electric performances on the track and in the field. The most notable of which turned out to be the Men's 100m Dash where Oblique Seville took down reining World Champion Noah Lyles, running a PB of 9.82 seconds, the fastest time by a Jamaican since Usain Bolt's 9.81 in 2016. Seville has finished 4th place in the 100m at the last two Worl...

The Prefontaine Classic is always one of the highlights on the Diamond League calendar as it brings together some of the top stars in the sport. 2024 was no different, as the Women's 100m Dash saw a head-to-head clash between World Champion Sha'Carri Richardson and Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson-Herah in arguably the most competitive 100m race of the 2024 Olympic season so far. Though Sh...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone announced that she will be focusing on the 400m Hurdles ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. Just a day later, she went on to run 22.07 seconds in the 200m dash, a new personal best and a display of her speed and raw talent. Considering she is the defending Olympic Champion and holds the World Record, can anyone truly challenge her in the event or will this once...

Jamaican Women have dominated the sprints at the Olympic Games over the past 16 years. Since Beijing 2008, they have won 10 out of 12 possible medals in the 100m dash, including all 4 gold medals. But the "Big 3" names of Jamaican Women's sprinting, Shericka Jackson, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shell-Ann Fraser-Pryce, have all had slightly slower starts to their seasons than in previou...

On May 14th, Fred Kerley recently took to Twitter and said "World record next time I touch the 100m". That set the Track & Field World on fire with criticism from all angles considering the current record of 9.58 seconds, set by Usain Bolt back in 2009, seems almost unattainable by any current 100m sprinter. But though it may seem crazy on the surface, there is a level of understandi...

Should the USA Require Athletes to Run at Spring Relay Meets to Be Selected for the Olympic Relay Pool? At the 2024 World Athletics Relays, a USA Men's 4x100m Team of Courtney Lindsey, Kenny Bednarek, Kyree King and Noah Lyles won Gold in a time of 37.40 seconds, which is one of the fastest times in history. The USA Men have not won a medal in the 4x100m Relay at the Olympics since 2004 and on...

Michael Norman opened up is 2024 Season with a 400m in 44.21 seconds. That's his first race since July 2023, his first 400m since August 2022 and the 9th fastest time of his career. Over the past few years, Norman has dealt with setbacks and injuries that prevented him from consistently performing to the best of his ability. After winning 400m Gold at the 2022 World Championships, Norman switc...

Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs is the reigning Olympic Champion in the 100m Dash, but he is actually a bit different than any other Olympic Champion that we have ever seen in the event. Since 2021, Jacobs has struggled with injuries and setbacks that have prevented him from replicating the glory he experienced in Tokyo. But with a coaching change in the fall of 2023, as well as the upcoming 2024 Pa...

World 100m Champions Sha’Carri Richardson and Fred Kerley have started off a bit slower than expected in their first few races in 2024. Should the track & Field world be worried? Host: Anderson Emerole | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@atkoeme on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📱Follow on Instagram: ⁠⁠@thefinalleg on Instagram⁠⁠ 🎧⁠Subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts⁠ 🎥 ⁠⁠Subscribe to The Final Leg YouTub...

Courtney Lindsey shocked the world this past weekend in Nairobi Kenya with his 19.71 performance in the 200m Dash, just edging out World Bronze medalist Letsile Tebogo of Botswana. This comes off the heels of Lindsey’s 19.88 at the Tom Jones Memorial a week prior.  Though these performances may come as a shock at the top of 2024, Lindsey is no fluke having made team USA last year to the Budapest W...

Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela is the Olympic Champion, World Record Holder, 4-time World Champion and 3-time World Indoor Champion in the Triple Jump. She recently announced that she will not compete at the 2024 Olympics due to an Achilles injury, ending her consecutive gold medal streak. The Triple Jump is often forgotten and far from the most popular events, especially compared to track events like...

Andre De Grasse of Canada has been one of the most consistent sprinters of the past decade, having won a total of 7 individual medals since 2015, including Olympic 200m Gold in Tokyo 2020. Despite his accomplishments, he flies under the radar a bit and is sometimes overlooked throughout the season leading up to the Olympics or Worlds. Today we discuss why Andre is in the conversation with some of...

Since Usain Bolt Retired in 2017, the men’s 100m dash has become completely wide open with a different 100m Dash Champion at every Major Championship since then. As we now look towards the Paris 2024 Olympics, there are a bunch of contenders all vying for the Gold medal this summer. In Part 5, the final part, we discuss a few sprinters from various countries around the world. From Andre De Grasse...

Since Usain Bolt Retired in 2017, the men’s 100m dash has become completely wide open with a different 100m Dash Champion at every Major Championship since then. As we now look towards the Paris 2024 Olympics, there are a bunch of contenders all vying for the Gold medal this summer. Today in Part 4, we discuss the current crop of sprinters across Africa. Letsile Tebogo in Botswana, Ferdinand Omany...

Since Usain Bolt Retired in 2017, the men’s 100m dash has become completely wide open with a different 100m Dash Champion at every Major Championships since then. As we now look towards the Paris 2024 Olympics, there are a bunch of contenders all vying for the Gold medal this summer. In Part 3, we discuss Oblique Seville, Ackeem Blake, Kishane Thompson and other Jamaican men who have the potential...

Since Usain Bolt Retired in 2017, the men’s 100m dash has become completely wide open with a different 100m Dash Champion at every Major Championships since then. As we now look towards the Paris 2024 Olympics, there are a bunch of contenders all vying for the Gold medal this summer. In Part 2, we discuss Fred Kerley and Lamont Marcell Jacobs, both former champions in the 100m dash and both lookin...

Since Usain Bolt Retired in 2017, the men’s 100m dash has become completely wide open with a different 100m Dash Champion at every Major Championships since then. As we now look towards the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, there are a bunch of contenders all vying for the Gold medal this summer. In Part 1, we discuss Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman, both coming off very successful indoor seasons in t...