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born 1999
Yared Nuguse (1999) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters and mile. He was the 2019 NCAA Division I champion and bronze medalist from the 2024 Summer Olympics in the former.
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Running is something that I love so much and has brought me so much joy, but it's not something you can do forever.
You're really happy and proud of yourself but, at the same time, you're still yearning for more.
It would be nice for track athletes to be treated like athletes in other professional sports, especially at the top level.
It is a little funny how serious it felt in the moment. You can't focus on it too much because it's their business, but it made good running conversation, that's for sure.
I'm very excited. It's shaping up to be something really cool and really fun.
The mile – it’s four minutes of just going at it – seeing what happens. It just feels like it matches all my strengths perfectly.
I'd always been the nerdy, smart type and I'd just pointed everything towards getting into dentist school. Running was just this fun little side thing.
It feels easier than everything was in college because I have more time, Having that one focus has really helped me become the runner I always felt like I could become.
I have a very chill, kind of ‘go with the flow’ personality, I’m not too excitable in general.
The mile’s kind of like the perfect event for me, I’m not that aggressive, and so an 800 doesn’t really appeal to me.
It just feels like it's my time. I can taste it, I'm so close.
I’m in the right mindset now to really just give it everything I have at that level. Last time I was at the Olympics, I wasn’t able to compete and that was really sad. Now l’m at a point where I should be more than capable of putting myself where I want to be.
Track doesn't really have this pinnacle league like a lot of other sports do and it's largely because our sport is so different to a lot of traditional sports.
I know I can win these races, I was right there with them. It's just a matter of doing literally that last 1%, or 0.1%.
The irony was a big part of it. I often joke that he absorbs all my slow energy for me, so that I can be as fast as I want.
It was me living my best life, wanting to be like a scientist or something, I was not a fan of physical exertion.
I always said I will get back to dentistry. The goal is 2029 right now, so I'm going to enjoy these years of running while I have it.
People kind of expect you to set the tone. I’m in a position where I can make the race whatever I want it to be. I’ll always kick, but maybe not so much sit.
I did love going to practice earlier in the year and it was like 'oh my God, did you hear what they said?' It's the juiciest running drama we've had in a long time.
A lot of championship races are just being comfortable and then striking when you want to, I couldn’t really find that comfort, which made me a little more tired at the end of that race.
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